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A low wooden table laid with a celadon teapot of coiled cord, two small handleless cups of packed cream beads.

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Anna does not know the words for what is on the table, so she uses the only four lines she needs: what is this called, say it again, I understood, thank you. Every new word in the passage arrives beca…

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