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"Warn me?" she said "Of what?"

She looked at hihtly, that anyone who did

not know her as her husband knew her could not have noticed

anything unnatural, either in the sound or the sense of her

words But to hi that whenever he went to

bed five minutes later than usual, she noticed it, and asked hi that every joy, every pleasure and

pain that she felt she communicated to him at once; to him, now

to see that she did not care to notice his state of mind, that

she did not care to say a word about herself, reat deal

He saw that the inmost recesses of her soul, that had always

hitherto lain open before hiainst him More

than that, he saw from her tone that she was not even perturbed

at that, but as it were said straight out to him: "Yes, it's shut

up, and so it must be, and will be in future" Now he

experienced a feeling such as ahis own house locked up "But perhaps the key ht Alexey Alexandrovitch