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"And the worst of it all," thought he, "is that just now, at the

veryco forward at the time),

"when I stand in need of all ies,

just now this stupid worry should fall foul of me But what's to

be done? I'm not one of thosethe force of character to face them

"I must think it over, come to a decision, and put it out of my

s, of what has passed andin her soul, that's not my affair; that's the affair of

her conscience, and falls under the head of religion," he said to

hi consolation in the sense that he had found to

which division of regulating principles this new circumstance

could be properly referred

"And so," Alexey Alexandrovitch said to his, and so on, are questions for her conscience, with

which I can have nothing to do My duty is clearly defined As

the head of the fauide her,

and consequently, in part the person responsible; I aer I perceive, to warn her, even to use ht to speak plainly to her" And everything that

he would say tonight to his wife took clear shape in Alexey