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They were speaking of co up the most

trivial conversation, but to Kitty it see their fate and hers And strange it was

that they were actually talking of how absurd Ivan Ivanovitch was

with his French, and how the Eletsky girl ht have made a

better match, yet these words had all the while consequence for

the just as Kitty did The whole ball,

the whole world, everything see in Kitty's soul

Nothing but the stern discipline of her bringing-up supported her

and forced her to do as expected of her, that is, to dance,

to answer questions, to talk, even to s to rearrange the chairs and a

few couplesroom, a

moment of despair and horror came for Kitty She had refused

five partners, and now she was not dancing theasked for it, because she was so

successful in society that the idea would never occur to anyone

that she had reed till now She would have to

tell her th to do this She felt crushed She went to the furthest

end of the little drawing rooht, transparent skirts rose like a cloud about her slender