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ordered exercise by the doctors too I'll walk, and fancy ain"

"There's no hurry," said Anna "Would you like tea?"

She rang

"Bring in tea, and tell Seryozha that Alexey Alexandrovitch is

here Well, tell me, how have you been? Mihail Vassilievitch,

you've not been to see me before Look how lovely it is out on

the terrace," she said, turning first to one and then to the

other

She spoke very simply and naturally, but too much and too fast

She was thein the inquisitive

look Mihail Vassilievitch turned on her that he was, as it were,

keeping watch on her

Mihail Vassilievitch promptly went out on the terrace

She sat down beside her husband

"You don't look quite well," she said

"Yes," he said; "the doctor's been with me today and wasted an

hour of my time I feel that some one of our friends must have

sent him: my health's so precious, it seems"