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for seeing his wife, he had overlooked the possibility that her

repentance ht not die--this ht honificance But the

overlooked that contingency, but also from the fact that until

that day of his intervieith his dying wife, he had not known

his own heart At his sick wife's bedside he had for the first

ti of sys of others, and

hitherto looked on by him with shame as a har desired her death, and iveness, made him at once conscious, not

sis, but of a spiritual

peace he had never experienced before He suddenly felt that the

very thing that was the source of his sufferings had become the

source of his spiritual joy; that what had see, had becoave his wife and pitied her for her sufferings and her

reave Vronsky, and pitied hi action He felt more for