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Though she had more than one offer, she would not

her would be too hard; spoilt as she was by a life of case

She lived in this manner till she was sixteen, when the nephew of

the old ladies, a rich young prince, and a university student,

ca to

acknowledge it even to herself, fell in love with him

Then two years later this same nephew stayed four days with his

aunts before proceeding to join his regiht

before he left he betrayed Katusha, and, after giving her a

100-rouble note, went away Five months later she knew for

certain that she was to be a nant to her, her only thought being how to escape froan not only to serve the ladies in

a half-hearted and negligent way, but once, without knowing how

it happened, was very rude to the

she repented of later, and the ladies let her go, noticing

soot a

housemaid's place in a police-officer's house, but stayed there

only three an

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