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an unaccustomed constraint

Alexey Alexandrovitch smiled mournfully, looked at his

brother-in-law, and without answering went up to the table, took

from it an unfinished letter, and handed it to his

brother-in-law

"I think unceasingly of the sa I could say it better by letter, and

that ave him the

letter

Stepan Arkadyevitch took the letter, looked with incredulous

surprise at the lusterless eyes fixed so ian to read

"I see that my presence is irksome to you Painful as it is to

me to believe it, I see that it is so, and cannot be otherwise

I don't bla you at

the tiet

all that had passed between us and to begin a new life I do not

regret, and shall never regret, what I have done; but I have

desired one thing--your good, the good of your soul--and now I

see I have not attained that Tell ive

you true happiness and peace to your soul I putof what's right"