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The flash of lightning, the crash of thunder, and the

instantaneous chill that ran through hied for

Levin in one sense of terror

"My God! ht at once how senseless was his prayer that

they should not have been killed by the oak which had fallen now,

he repeated it, knowing that he could do nothing better than

utter this senseless prayer

Running up to the place where they usually went, he did not find

them there

They were at the other end of the copse under an old liures in dark dresses (they had

been light su over so It was Kitty with the nurse The rain

was already ceasing, and it was beginning to get light when Levin

reached them The nurse was not wet on the lower part of her

dress, but Kitty was drenched through, and her soaked clothes

clung to her Though the rain was over, they still stood in the