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"It is awful! awful!" he said

At that an to cry; probably it

had fallen down Darya Alexandrovna listened, and her face

suddenly softened

She seeether for a few seconds, as

though she did not knohere she was, and what she was doing,

and getting up rapidly, she ht, noticing the change of

her face at the child's cry, "my child: how can she hateher

"If you come near me, I will call in the servants, the children!

Theyaway at once,

and you may live here with yourthe door

Stepan Arkadyevitch sighed, wiped his face, and with a subdued

tread walked out of the room "Matvey says she will come round;

but how? I don't see the least chance of it Ah, oh, how

horrible it is! And how vulgarly she shouted," he said to

hi her shriek and the words--"scoundrel" and

"! Horribly

vulgar! horrible!" Stepan Arkadyevitch stood a few seconds

alone, wiped his face, squared his chest, and walked out of the

room