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Of these people the one that attracted her -place with an invalid Russian

lady, Madaed to the highest society, but she was so ill that she

could not walk, and only on exceptionally fine days e But it was not

so much from ill-health as from pride--so Princess

Shtcherbatskaya interpreted it--that Madame Stahl had not made

the acquaintance of anyone airl looked after Madame Stahl, and besides that, she was, as

Kitty observed, on friendly terms with all the invalids ere

seriously ill, and there were s, and

looked after theirl was

not, as Kitty gathered, related to Madame Stahl, nor was she a

paid attendant Madame Stahl called her Varenka, and other

people called her "Mademoiselle Varenka" Apart froirl's relations with Madame Stahl

and with other unknown persons, Kitty, as often happened, felt an

inexplicable attraction to Mademoiselle Varenka, and are

when their eyes met that she too liked her

Of Mademoiselle Varenka one would not say that she had passed her

first youth, but she was, as it were, a creature without youth;

she ht have been taken for nineteen or for thirty If her