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After the ball, early next rao, I e in her plans in a tone that suggested that she had to

re them: "no,

it had really better be today!"

Stepan Arkadyevitch was not dining at home, but he promised to

come and see his sister off at seven o'clock

Kitty, too, did not co a note that she had a headache

Dolly and Anna dined alone with the children and the English

governess Whether it was that the children were fickle, or that

they had acute senses, and felt that Anna was quite different

that day from what she had been when they had taken such a fancy

to her, that she was not now interested in them,--but they had

abruptly dropped their play with their aunt, and their love for

her, and were quite indifferent that she was going away Anna

was absorbed the wholein preparations for her

departure She wrote notes to her Moscow acquaintances, put down

her accounts, and packed Altogether Dolly fancied she was not

in a placid state of mind, but in that worried mood, which Dolly

kneith herself, and which does not come without cause,