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obvious satisfaction), "subdivided as follows" (he continued to

crook his fat fingers, though the three cases and their

subdivisions could obviously not be classified together):

"physical defect of the husband or of the wife, adultery of the

husband or of the wife" As by now all his fingers were used up,

he uncrooked all his fingers and went on: "This is the

theoretical view; but I iine you have done me the honor to

apply to me in order to learn its application in practice And

therefore, guided by precedents, I must inform you that in

practice cases of divorce --

there's no physical defect, I may assume, nor desertion?"

Alexey Alexandrovitch bowed his head in assent

"--May be reduced to the following: adultery of one of the

uilty

party by reement, accidental

detection It must be admitted that the latter case is rarely

lance at

Alexey Alexandrovitch he paused, as a es of each weapon, ht await his

custo, and

therefore the laent on: "The most usual and simple, the

sensible course, I consider, is adultery by mutual consent I

should not per with a ine that to you this is

comprehensible"