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"Are there any papers froralass

"On the table," replied Matvey, glancing with inquiring sympathy

at his master; and, after a short pause, he added with a sly

se-jobbers"

Stepan Arkadyevitch lass In the glance, in which their eyes lass, it was clear that they understood one another

Stepan Arkadyevitch's eyes asked: "Why do you tell me that?

don't you know?"

Matvey put his hands in his jacket pockets, thrust out one leg,

and gazed silently, good-humoredly, with a faint smile, at his

master

"I told them to come on Sunday, and till then not to trouble you

or the," he said He had obviously prepared

the sentence beforehand

Stepan Arkadyevitch saw Matvey wanted toopen the telegra at the words, htened

"Matvey, my sister Anna Arkadyevna will be here to for aa pink path through his long, curly whiskers

"Thank God!" said Matvey, showing by this response that he, like

his nificance of this arrival--that is,

that Anna Arkadyevna, the sister he was so fond of,

about a reconciliation between husband and wife