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Anna ca with the tassels of her

hood Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this gloas not

one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a

conflagration in theher

husband, Anna raised her head and sh she had just

waked up

"You're not in bed? What a wonder!" she said, letting fall her

hood, and without stopping, she went on into the dressing room

"It's late, Alexey Alexandrovitch," she said, when she had gone

through the doorway

"Anna, it's necessary for ly She ca room, and looked at hi down "Well, let's talk, if it's

so necessary But it would be better to get to sleep"

Anna said what ca herself,

at her own capacity for lying How simple and natural were her

words, and how likely that she was simply sleepy! She felt

herself clad in an impenetrable armor of falsehood She felt

that so