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"Oh, that's always the case," said the lawyer, "and that's always

for you to decide"

He let his eyes rest on Alexey Alexandrovitch's feet, feeling

that he ht of his irrepressible

amusement He looked at a moth that flew before his nose, and

ard for Alexey

Alexandrovitch's position

"Though in their general features our laws on this subject are

known to lad

to have an idea of the fors are done in

practice"

"You would be glad," the lawyer, without lifting his eyes,

responded, adopting, with a certain satisfaction, the tone of his

client's remarks, "for me to lay before you all the methods by

which you could secure what you desire?"

And on receiving an assuring nod frolance now and then at Alexey

Alexandrovitch's face, which was growing red in patches

"Divorce by our laws," he said, with a slight shade of

disapprobation of our laws, "is possible, as you are aware, in

the following cases Wait a little!" he called to a clerk

who put his head in at the door, but he got up all the saain "In the following

cases: physical defect in the married parties, desertion without

coer

covered with hair, "adultery" (this word he pronounced with