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"Perhaps it was for the best You will have to forgive ht to tell you"

This was one of the things he had meant to speak about He had

resolved fros--that he was not

chaste as she was, and that he was not a believer It was

agonizing, but he considered he ought to tell her both these

facts

"No, not now, later!" he said

"Very well, later, but youI want to know everything Now it is

settled"

He added: "Settled that you'll take ive me up? Yes?"

"Yes, yes"

Their conversation was interrupted by Mademoiselle Linon, who

with an affected but tender sratulate her

favorite pupil Before she had gone, the servants caratulations Then relations arrived, and there began

that state of blissful absurdity fro Levin was in a continual state

of aardness and discomfort, but the intensity of his happiness

went on all the while increasing He felt continually that a

great deal was being expected of hi he was told, and it all gave hie about it like

others, that the ordinary conditions of engaged couples would

spoil his special happiness; but it ended in his doing exactly as

other people did, and his happiness being only increased thereby