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"To sleep! To forget!" he said to himself with the serene

confidence of a healthy o to sleep at once And the saan to drop off into forgetfulness

The waves of the sea of unconsciousness had begun to h a violent shock of

electricity had passed over his of the sofa, and leaning on his arot in a

panic onto his knees His eyes ide open as though he had

never been asleep The heaviness in his head and the weariness

in his lione

"You may trample me in the mud," he heard Alexey Alexandrovitch's

words and saw hi flush and glittering eyes, gazing with love and

tenderness not at him but at Alexey Alexandrovitch; he saw his

own, as he fancied, foolish and ludicrous figure when Alexey

Alexandrovitch took his hands away fro himself on the sofa in the saet!" he repeated to himself But with his

eyes shut he saw more distinctly than ever Anna's face as it had

been on thebefore the races