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With such a view of life, she was by no means the lowest, but a

very important person And Maslova prized this view of life ; she could not but prize it, for, if she lost the

iof her life And, in order not to lose the

to the set that

looked at life in the sa that

Nekhludoff wanted to lead her out into another world, she

resisted hi that she would have to lose her place in

life, with the self-possession and self-respect it gave her For

this reason she drove from her the recollections of her early

youth and her first relations with Nekhludoff These

recollections did not correspond with her present conception of

the world, and were therefore quite rubbed out of her mind, or,