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The young people talked, too At the beginning of the walk, Sanin, as the elder, and so more reflective, turned the conversation on fate and predestination, and the nature andof man's destiny; but the conversation quickly took a less serious turn Ean to question his friend and patron about Russia, how duels were fought there, and whether the women there were beautiful, and whether one could learn Russian quickly, and what he had felt when the officer took aim at him Sanin, on his side, questioned Eeneral about their fa every ti only of her To speak , but of thehih a veil, a delicate, bright veil, hung faintly fluttering before his mental vision; and behind this veil he feltfelt the presence of a youthful, e, with a tender smile on its lips, and eyelids severely--with affected seventy--downcast And this ie was not the face of Gemma, it was the face of happiness itself! For, behold, at last his hour had co, the eyelashes are raised--his divinity has looked upon hiht as fro! He dreaain in theexpectation!

And this expectation, this torture, hindered nothing It acco It did not prevent hi capitally at a third inn with E, the thought shot across him, What if any one in the world knew? This suspense did not prevent hiareen lawn And the confusion, the stupefaction of Sanin ined! At the very lia, he was flying like a bird, with his legs outspread over Emil, as bent double, he suddenly saw on the farthest border of the lao officers, in whonised at once his adversary and his second, Herr von D&oulass in his eye, and was staring at hiot on his feet, turned away hurriedly, put on the coat he had flung down, jerked out a word to Emil; the latter, too, put on his jacket, and they both immediately made off