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"What's that for?" she said, with an angry frown

"I feel that it is my duty before God to do it"

"What God have you found now? You are not saying what you ought

to God, indeed! What God? You ought to have remembered God

then," she said, and stopped with her mouth open It was only now

that Nekhludoff noticed that her breath smelled of spirits, and

that he understood the cause of her excitement

"Try and be calan, quickly, flushing scarlet "I

aentleman and a prince There's no

need for you to soil yourself by touching o to your

princesses; my price is a ten-rouble note"

"However cruelly you ," he said, treine to

what extent I feel uilty?" she said, angrilyhim "You did

not feel so then, but threw me 100 roubles That's your price"

"I know, I know; but what is to be done now?" said Nekhludoff "I

have decided not to leave you, and what I have said I shall do"

"And I say you sha'n't," she said, and laughed aloud

"Katusha," he said, touching her hand

"You go away I am a convict and you a prince, and you've no