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While the peasant was kissing Nekhludoff and giving hi, the lilac dress of Matrona Pavlovna and the dear black

head with the red bow appeared

Katusha caught sight of him over the heads of those in front of

her, and he sa her face brightened up

She had come out with Matrona Pavlovna on to the porch, and

stopped there distributing alar with a

red scab in place of a nose ca, drew nearer hiust, but

her eyes still shining with joy, kissed hi this her eyes , "Is this that I a is right, everything is beautiful I

love!"

They came down the steps of the porch, and he caive them the Easter kiss, but only to be

nearer to her Matrona Pavlovna bowed her head, and said with a

smile, "Christ is risen!" and her tone implied, "To-day we are

all equal" She wiped her mouth with her handkerchief rolled into

a ball and stretched her lips towards hi her Then he looked

at Katusha; she blushed, and drew nearer "Christ is risen,

Dmitri Ivanovitch" "He is risen, indeed," answered Nekhludoff,