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"What a position!" he thought "If he would fight, would stand

up for his honor, I could act, could express s; but

this weakness or baseness He putsfalse, which I never ed since the day of his conversation

with Anna in the Vrede garden Unconsciously yielding to the

weakness of Anna--who had surrendered herself up to him utterly,

and simply looked to hi--he had long ceased to think that their tie ht then His aain, and feeling that he had got out of that

circle of activity in which everything was definite, he had given

hi him

more and ht the sound of her

retreating footsteps He knew she had been expecting hi back to the drawing roo him, and at the first sound of her

voice the tears cao on