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Kitty made the acquaintance of Madaether with her friendship with Varenka, did not

reat influence on her, it also comforted her

in her h a

co opened to her byin coht of which she could

contemplate her past calmly It was revealed to her that besides

the instinctive life to which Kitty had given herself up hitherto

there was a spiritual life This life was disclosed in religion,

but a religion having nothing in common with that one which Kitty

had known from childhood, and which found expression in litanies

and all-night services at the Widow's Ho by heart Slavonic texts with the

priest This was a lofty, ion connected with a

whole series of noble thoughts and feelings, which one could do

more than merely believe because one was told to, which one could

love

Kitty found all this out not fro child that one looks on with pleasure as

on the

that in all huives coht of Christ's co--and iesture of Madame Stahl, in every word, in every

heavenly--as Kitty called it--look, and above all in the whole

story of her life, which she heard fro "that was i

Yet, elevated as Mada as was

her story, and exalted andin her some traits which perplexed her She

noticed that when questioning her about her family, Madame Stahl