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features were criticized separately, she was handsome rather than

plain, in spite of the sickly hue of her face She would have

been a good figure, too, if it had not been for her extree for her

ht But she was not likely to be attractive to men

She was like a fine flower, already past its blooh the petals were still unwithered Moreover,

she would have been unattractive to men also from the lack of

just what Kitty had too much of--of the suppressed fire of

vitality, and the consciousness of her own attractiveness

She always seemed absorbed in work about which there could be no

doubt, and so it see

outside it It was just this contrast with her own position that

was for Kitty the great attraction of Mademoiselle Varenka

Kitty felt that in her, in her manner of life, she would find an

exa: interest in

life, a dignity in life--apart froirls with men, which so revolted Kitty, and appeared to her now

as a shaoods in search of a purchaser

The more attentively Kitty watched her unknown friend, the irl was the perfect creature she fancied

her, and the erly she wished to make her acquaintance