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"Pray walk in," said the lawyer, addressing Alexey

Alexandrovitch; and, gloo Karenin in before him, he

closed the door

"Won't you sit down?" He indicated an ar table

covered with papers He sat down hiers covered hite hairs, he bent

his head on one side But as soon as he was settled in this

position a moth flew over the table The lawyer, with a

swiftness that could never have been expected of hiht theto speak ofthe lawyer's ht to observe that the business about which I have to

speak to you is to be strictly private"

The lawyer's overhanging reddish mustaches were parted in a

scarcely perceptible smile

"I should not be a lawyer if I could not keep the secrets

confided to lanced at his face, and saw that the

shrewd, gray eyes were laughing, and seemed to know all about it

already

"You know my naood"--again he caught a , like every Russian," said the lawyer, bowing