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conceal that he noticed it

"Why don't you get married?"

"It hasn't happened so," Konstantin answered, reddening a little

"Why not? For 's at an end! I've made a mess

of my life But this I've said, and I say still, that if iven me when I needed it, my whole life would

have been different"

Konstantin e the conversation

"Do you know your little Vanya's with house at Pokrovskoe"

Nikolay jerked his neck, and sank into thought

"Yes, tellstill, and the birch trees, and our schoolroo? How I remember the arbor and

the seat! Nowin the house, but

as it used to be

again Then I'll come and see you, if your wife is nice"

"But coe

it!"