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"All's over, and there's nothing more," said Dolly "And the

worst of all is, you see, that I can't cast him off: there are

the children, I am tied And I can't live with hi, he has spoken to me, but I want to hear it froly

Syned were visible on Anna's face

"Very well," she said all at once "But I will tell you it fro You knoas ave us I wasI know they say men tell their wives of their former

lives, but Stiva"--she corrected herself--"Stepan Arkadyevitch

told ined that I was the only woht years Youinfidelity, I regarded it as iine it--with such ideas, to find out suddenly all the

horror, all the loathsomeness You must try and understand

me To be fully convinced of one's happiness, and all at

once" continued Dolly, holding back her sobs, "to get a

letterhis letter to his overness No, it's too

awful!" She hastily pulled out her handkerchief and hid her face

in it "I can understand being carried away by feeling," she

went on after a brief silence, "but deliberately, slyly deceiving

ether with