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Alexey Alexandrovitch sighed, plucking up his courage But

having once made up his mind he went on in his shrill voice,

without ti here and there a

word

"I have the an, "to have

been deceived in my married life, and I desire to break off all

relations with al means--that is, to be divorced,

but to do this so that ray eyes tried not to laugh, but they were dancing

with irrepressible glee, and Alexey Alexandrovitch saw that it

was not siot a profitable

job: there was triuleam he saw in his wife's eyes

"You desirea divorce?"

"Yes, precisely so; but I ought to warn you that Iyour time and attention I have come simply to consult

you as a preliminary step I want a divorce, but the forreat consequence to me It is very

possible that if that forive up a legal divorce"