And there was another life running its course in secret, and through some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself, everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people;

Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Dog

Anton Chekhov — The Lady with the Dog (1899), tr. Constance Garnett · Read it at Project Gutenberg

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On Sentle this sentence arrives in 7 pieces, shuffled, with the lines that lead up to it for context. Gurov, a Moscow banker who has had many affairs, finds himself unexpectedly undone by a woman he met in Yalta. Putting it back in the author’s order is the puzzle — and the order is rarely arbitrary, which is what the note above is about.