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Anna was upstairs, standing before the looking glass, and, with

Annushka's assistance, pinning the last ribbon on her gohen

she heard carriage wheels crunching the gravel at the entrance

"It's too early for Betsy," she thought, and glancing out of the

she caught sight of the carriage and the black hat of

Alexey Alexandrovitch, and the ears that she kneell

sticking up each side of it "How unlucky! Can he be going to

stay the night?" she wondered, and the thought of all that ht

come of such a chance struck her as so awful and terrible that,

without dwelling on it for a ht and radiant face; and conscious of the presence of

that spirit of falsehood and deceit in herself that she had come

to know of late, she abandoned herself to that spirit and began

talking, hardly knohat she was saying

"Ah, how nice of you!" she said, giving her husband her hand, and

greeting Sludin, as like one of the faht, I hope?" was the first word the spirit

of falsehood proether

Only it's a pity I've pro for me"

Alexey Alexandrovitch knit his brows at Betsy's na to separate the inseparables," he said in his

usual bantering tone "I' with Mihail Vassilievitch I'm