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"Of course, there is a good deal of truth in Lo back in the low chair and

looking at Sophia Vasilievna with sleepy eyes; "but he

over-stepped the mark Oh, yes"

"And you? Do you believe in heredity?" asked Sophia Vasilievna,

turning to Nekhludoff, whose silence annoyed her "In heredity?"

he asked "No, I don't" At this es that in some unaccountable way rose up in

his i and handsoure of Kolosoff as an

artist's model; with his stomach like a melon, his bald head, and

his arms without muscle, like pestles In the same dim way the

limbs of Sophia Vasilievna, now covered with silks and velvets,

rose up in his mind as they must be in reality; but this mental

picture was too horrid and he tried to drive it away

"Well, you know Missy is waiting for you," she said "Go and find

her She wants to play a new piece by Grieg to you; it is ; the woht Nekhludoff, rising and

pressing Sophia Vasilievna's transparent and bony, ringed hand

Katerina Alexeevna an, in French, as usual: "I see the duties of a juryly upon you"