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Before the end of the course of drinking the waters, Prince

Shtcherbatsky, who had gone on froet a breath of Russian air, as

he said--cahter

The views of the prince and of the princess on life abroad were

cohtful,

and in spite of her established position in Russian society, she

tried abroad to be like a European fashionable lady, which she

was not--for the sientlewoether

suit her The prince, on the contrary, thought everything

foreign detestable, got sick of European life, kept to his

Russian habits, and purposely tried to show himself abroad less

European than he was in reality

The prince returned thinner, with the skin hanging in loose bags

on his cheeks, but in the reater when he saw Kitty completely

recovered The news of Kitty's friendship with Madaave hie she had noticed in Kitty, troubled the prince and aroused

his habitual feeling of jealousy of everything that drew his

daughter away froot out of the reach of his influence into regions inaccessible