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watering-place, and bestowed theirl, and the landlord, ho him that it was not the

water had cured Kitty, but his splendid cookery, especially his

pluhed at her husband for his Russian

ways, but she was ood-humored than she had been

all the while she had been at the waters The colonel smiled, as

he always did, at the prince's jokes, but as far as regards

Europe, of which he believed hi a careful

study, he took the princess's side The sihter at everything absurd the

prince said, and his jokes hter, which was solad of all this, but she could not be light-hearted

She could not solve the probleoodhumored view of her friends, and of the life that

had so attracted her To this doubt there was joined the change

in her relations with the Petrovs, which had been so

conspicuously and unpleasantly ood huood hu such as she had known

in childhood, when she had been shut in her roohter outside