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She showed how he had moved his hands There was terror in her

face And Vronsky, re his soul

"He was fu quickly, quickly in French, you

know: _Il faut le battre, le fer, le brayer, le pétrir_ And in

my horror I tried to wake up, and woke upbut woke up in

the drea myself what it meant And Korney

said to me: 'In childbirth you'll die, ma'am, you'll die'

And I woke up"

"What nonsense, what nonsense!" said Vronsky; but he felt himself

that there was no conviction in his voice

"But don't let's talk of it Ring the bell, I'll have tea And

stay a little now; it's not long I shall"

But all at once she stopped The expression of her face

instantaneously changed Horror and excitement were suddenly

replaced by a look of soft, sole of the change She was listening to

the stirring of the new life within her