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eyes He saw that instead of doing as he had intended--that is

to say, warning his wife against a mistake in the eyes of the

world--he had unconsciously becoitated over as the

affair of her conscience, and was struggling against the barrier

he fancied between them

"This is what I meant to say to you," he went on coldly and

co you to listen to it I consider jealousy,

as you know, a hu, and I shall

never allow myself to be influenced by it; but there are certain

rules of decoru it was not I observed it, but judging by the impression

made on the company, everyone observed that your conduct and

deportether what could be desired"

"I positively don't understand," said Anna, shrugging her

shoulders--"He doesn't care," she thought "But other people

noticed it, and that's what upsets him"--"You're not well,

Alexey Alexandrovitch," she added, and she got up, and would have

gone towards the door; but he ly and forbidding, as Anna had never seen hi her head back and on one side, began

with her rapid hand taking out her hairpins