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Listening now to Sophia Vasilievna, now to Kolosoff, Nekhludoff

noticed that neither he nor she cared anything about the play or

each other, and that if they talked it was only to gratify the

physical desire toeaten; and that Kolosoff, having drunk vodka, wine

and liqueur, was a little tipsy Not tipsy like the peasants who

drink seldo wine has become a

habit He did not reel about or talk nonsense, but he was in a

state that was not normal; excited and self-satisfied

Nekhludoff also noticed that during the conversation Princess

Sophia Vasilievna kept glancing uneasily at the , through

which a slanting ray of sunshine, whichto creep up

"How true," she said in reference to so the button of an electric bell by the side of her couch

The doctor rose, and, like one who is at ho Sophia Vasilievna followed him with her

eyes and continued the conversation

"Please, Philip, draw these curtains," she said, pointing to the

hen the handsome footman came in answer to the bell

"No; whatever you may say, there is some mysticism in him;

without mysticism there can be no poetry," she said, with one of