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TheKitty herself could not love such an

ugly person as he conceived himself to be, and, above all, such

an ordinary, in no way striking person Moreover, his attitude

to Kitty in the past--the attitude of a grown-up person to a

child, arising from his friendship with her brother--seeood-natured ht, he supposed, be liked as a friend;

but to be loved with such a love as that hich he loved

Kitty, one would need to be a handsouished ly and ordinary ed by himself, and he could

not himself have loved any but beautiful,two months alone in the country, he was

convinced that this was not one of those passions of which he had

had experience in his early youth; that this feeling gave him not

an instant's rest; that he could not live without deciding the

question, would she or would she not be his wife, and that his

despair had arisen only fros, that he had no

sort of proof that he would be rejected And he had now come to

Moscoith a firet

married if he were accepted Orhe could not conceive what

would become of him if he were rejected