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"Ah, how horrid!" he said to hi up once more at the

half-naked woman, with the splendid marble shoulders and arms,

and the triumphant smile on her lips "Oh, how horrid!" The bared

shoulders of the portrait re woman,

whom he had seen exposed in the same way a few days before It

was Missy, who had devised an excuse for calling hio to a ball, so that he should see

her in her ball dress It ith disgust that he remembered her

fine shoulders and arms "And that father of hers, with his

doubtful past and his cruelties, and the bel-esprit her usted him, and also

made him feel ashamed "Shaht; "freedoins and Mary Vasilievna and the inheritance and

froo

abroad, to Rome and work at my picture!" He remembered the doubts

he had about his talent for art "Well, never mind; only just to

breathe freely First Constantinople, then Roh with this jury business, and arrange with the advocate

first"

Then suddenly there arose in his mind an extrehtly-squinting eyes, and how she

began to cry when the last words of the prisoners had been heard;

and he hurriedly put out his cigarette, pressing it into the

ash-pan, lit another, and began pacing up and down the rooh with her rose in