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While awaiting the tie

scale, however, Kitty, even then at the springs, where there were

so many people ill and unhappy, readily found a chance for

practicing her new principles in i but that Kitty was ouement_, as she called it, for

Madame Stahl, and still more for Varenka She saw that Kitty did

not merely imitate Varenka in her conduct, but unconsciously

i

her eyes But later on the princess noticed that, apart froe was taking

place in her daughter

The princess saw that in the evenings Kitty read a French

testa she had never

done before; that she avoided society acquaintances and

associated with the sick people ere under Varenka's

protection, and especially one poor family, that of a sick

painter, Petrov Kitty was un the

part of a sister of h, and the princess had nothing to say against it,

especially as Petrov's as a perfectly nice sort of wo Kitty's devotion, praised

her, calling her an angel of consolation All this would have