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When he got home, Vronsky found there a note from Anna She

wrote, "I ao

on longer without seeing you Cooes to the council at seven and will be there

till ten" Thinking for an instant of the strangeness of her

bidding hi on her not receiving hiot his proi

some lunch, he lay down on the sofa immediately, and in five

the last few days were confused together and joined on to a

e of Anna and of the peasant who had played an

important part in the bear hunt, and Vronsky fell asleep He

waked up in the dark, treht a candle "What was it? What? What was the dreadful

thing I dreamed? Yes, yes; I think a little dirtysoe words in French Yes, there

was nothing else in the dream," he said to himself "But as

it so awful?" He vividly recalled the peasant again and those

incomprehensible French words the peasant had uttered, and a

chill of horror ran down his spine

"What nonsense!" thought Vronsky, and glanced at his watch

It was half-past eight already He rang up his servant, dressed