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'How can I ht when I waked in thetea, but I did not go too near the fence, and saw no one After drinking tea, I walked several times up and down the street before the house, and looked into the s from a distance I fancied her face at a curtain, and I hurried away in alarht, pacing distractedly about the sandy plain that stretches before Neskutchny park'but how, that is the question' I recalled theyesterday; I had for some reason or other a particularly vivid recollection of how she had laughed at me But while I racked my brains, and made various plans, fate had already provided for hbour a letter on grey paper, sealed with broax, such as is only used in notices from the post-office or on the corks of bottles of cheap wine In this letter, which ritten in illiterate language and in a slovenly hand, the princess begged my mother to use her powerful influence in her behalf; my mother, in the words of the princess, was very intih position, upon whom her fortunes and her children's fortunes depended, as she had some very important business in hand 'I address entlewolad to avail ed my mother's permission to call upon her I found my mother in an unpleasant state of indecision; my father was not at home, and she had no one of whoentlewoain, was impossible But my mother was in a difficulty as to how to answer her

To write a note in French struck her as unsuitable, and Russian spelling was not a strong point with my mother herself, and she are of it, and did not care to expose herself She was overjoyed when I o round to the princess's, and to explain to her by word of lad to do her excellency any service within her powers, and begged her to come to see her at one o'clock This unexpectedly rapid fulfilhted and appalled n, however, of the perturbation which came over me, and as a preliminary step went to my own room to put on a new necktie and tail coat; at home I still wore short jackets and lay-down collars, much as I abominated them