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"What do you want?" she said in a rapid, deep, unnatural voice

"Dolly!" he repeated, with a quiver in his voice "Anna is

co today"

"Well, what is that to me? I can't see her!" she cried

"But you o away!" she shrieked, not looking at hih this shriek were called up by physical pain

Stepan Arkadyevitch could be calht of his wife, he

could hope that she would _coo on reading his paper and drinking his coffee;

but when he saw her tortured, suffering face, heard the tone of

her voice, submissive to fate and full of despair, there was a

catch in his breath and a luan

to shine with tears

"My God! what have I done? Dolly! For God's sake! You

know" He could not go on; there was a sob in his throat

She shut the bureau with a sla: forgiveRemember,

cannot nine years of my life atone for an instant"

She dropped her eyes and listened, expecting what he would say,