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Connected with the conversation that had sprung up on the rights

of wohts in e improper to discuss before the ladies

Pestsov had several tiey Ivanovitch and Stepan Arkadyevitch

carefully drew him off theone out,

Pestsov did not follow the Alexey

Alexandrovitch, began to expound the chief ground of inequality

The inequality in e, in his opinion, lay in the fact that

the infidelity of the wife and the infidelity of the husband

are punished unequally, both by the law and by public opinion

Stepan Arkadyevitch went hurriedly up to Alexey Alexandrovitch

and offered hiar

"No, I don't sh purposely wishing to show that he was not afraid of the

subject, he turned to Pestsov with a chilly sine that such a view has a foundation in the very nature

of things," he said, and would have gone on to the drawing room

But at this point Turovtsin broke suddenly and unexpectedly into

the conversation, addressing Alexey Alexandrovitch

"You heard, perhaps, about Pryatchnikov?" said Turovtsin, war for an