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But as time went on, he saw more and more distinctly that however

natural the position now see be

allowed to remain in it He felt that besides the blessed

spiritual force controlling his soul, there was another, a brutal

force, as powerful, or more powerful, which controlled his life,

and that this force would not allow hied for He felt that everyone was looking at hi wonder, that he was not understood, and that so

was expected of him Above all, he felt the instability and

unnaturalness of his relations with his wife

When the softening effect of the near approach of death had

passed away, Alexey Alexandrovitch began to notice that Anna was

afraid of hiht in the face She see; and as though foreseeing their present

relations could not continue, she see from him

Towards the end of February it happened that Anna's baby

daughter, who had been named Anna too, fell ill Alexey

Alexandrovitch was in the nursery in the

orders for the doctor to be sent for, he went to his office On

finishing his work, he returned horoo a white fur cloak

"Who is here?" asked Alexey Alexandrovitch