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The streets of St Petersburg, the city itself, nihilism, Russia, the

czar had ceased to exist for me, however Whatever she ht that startled cry to her lips, and had

ht into her

countenance an expression of such overwhel concern

for e in that instant, that Zara

loved me

Have you ever been swayed by an impulse that is utterly beyond your

control, and before which all other considerations degenerate to such

utter insignificance as not to exist at all?

It was such an one that controlled me then

As she drew h it, her own eyes held unflinchingly topohich she did not seek to resist, and could not

have controlled, even if she had made the effort

Whatever it may have been, out there in the street, that had alarot it, andbody was crushed ainst my own, and our lips had nized the strange

and overwhel instinct of love, that had asserted its control over

both at the self-saot the world, the flesh and the

devil, the czar, Russia, and nihilisot even that

upper at her heart, in that suprenition of love