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that he did not want But apart from this, what more than all

made divorce seem i to a divorce he would be co of Darya Alexandrovna at Moscow, that in deciding on a

divorce he was thinking of hi her irrevocably, had sunk into his

heart And connecting this saying with his forgiveness of her,

with his devotion to the children, he understood it now in his

oay To consent to a divorce, to give her her freedohts to take from himself the last tie that bound him

to life--the children whom he loved; and to take froht, to thrust her

down to her ruin If she were divorced, he knew she would join

her life to Vronsky's, and their tie would be an illegitimate and

criminal one, since a wife, by the interpretation of the

ecclesiastical law, could not

"She will join him, and in a year or two he will throw her over,

or she will forreeing to an unlawful divorce, shall be to blaht it all over hundreds of times, and was

convinced that a divorce was not at all simple, as Stepan

Arkadyevitch had said, but was utterly ile word Stepan Arkadyevitch said to him; to every

word he had a thousand objections tothat his words were the expression of that hty

brutal force which controlled his life and to which he would have

to submit