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happy now, happy in hope, anyway And then? But I must!

I must! I must! Aeakness!"

Levin rose to his feet, took off his overcoat, and scurrying over

the rough ice round the hut, came out on the smooth ice and

skated without effort, as it were, by si speed and turning his course He

approached with tiave hi

faster and faster, and the rasped his hand

"With you I should soon learn; I somehow feel confidence in you,"

she said to hi on me," he

said, but was at once panic-stricken at what he had said, and

blushed And indeed, no sooner had he uttered these words, when

all at once, like the sun going behind a cloud, her face lost all

its friendliness, and Levin detected the fa of thought; a crease showed

on her sh I've no right to ask

such a question," he added hurriedly

"Oh, why so? No, I have nothing to trouble me," she

responded coldly; and she added immediately: "You haven't seen

Mlle Linon, have you?"