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The confession he had promised was the one painful incident of

this tiave Kitty his diary, in which there ritten the confession

that tortured him He had written this diary at the tiuish: his lack

of purity and his lack of faith His confession of unbelief

passed unnoticed She was religious, had never doubted the

truths of religion, but his external unbelief did not affect her

in the least Through love she knew all his soul, and in his

soul she sahat she wanted, and that such a state of soul

should be called unbelieving was to her abitterly

Levin, not without an inner struggle, handed her his diary He

knew that between him and her there could not be, and should not

be, secrets, and so he had decided that so it must be But he

had not realized what an effect it would have on her, he had not

put hi he

came to their house before the theater, went into her room and