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When Maslova, wearied out by the long walk, reached the building,

accompanied by two soldiers, Prince Dmitri Ivanovitch Nekhludoff,

who had seduced her, was still lying on his high bedstead, with a

feather bed on the top of the spring ht shirt, s what he had to do to-day, and what had happened

yesterday

Recalling the evening he had spent with the Korchagins, a wealthy

and aristocratic fahter every one expected he

would arette, was going to take another out of the silver case; but,

changing hisdown his ss, stepped into his slippers,

threw his silk dressing gown over his broad shoulders, and passed

into his dressing-roo heavily and quickly There he

carefully cleaned his teeth, many of which were filled, with

tooth powder, and rinsed his mouth with scented elixir After

that he washed his hands with perfu

nails with particular care, then, from a tap fixed to his marble

washstand, he let a spray of cold water run over his face and

stout neck Having finished this part of the business, he went

into a third roo refreshed his full, white, h bath sheet, he put on his fine undergarlass to brush his black beard and

his curly hair, that had begun to get thin above the forehead

Everything he used, everything belonging to his toilet, his