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 "Oh, yes, do let us go, I should like to get some,' said Kitty, and she blushed. For mere politeness' sake she wanted to ask Vasenka if he would go with them, but she did not do so.

"Where are you going, Kostia?" she asked, with a guilty air, as her husband, with deliberate steps, went by her on his way out of the room.

This guilty confusion confirmed all his suspicions.

"A machinist came while I was away. I have not had a chance to see him yet," he answered, without looking at her.

He had gone down-stairs, but had not yet left his library, before he heard Kitty's well-known footsteps imprudently hurrying after him.

"What is it? We are busy," said he, curtly.

"Excuse me," said Kitty, addressing the German machinist; "I wish to say a few words to my husband."

The mechanic was about to leave, but Levin stopped him: "Don't disturb yourself."

"I don't want to lose the three o'clock train," remarked the German.

Without answering him. Levin went out into the corridor with his wife.

"Well, what do you wish to say to me?" he asked in French.

He did not look at her face, and did not want to see how it quivered and what a look of pathetic humiliation was in her eyes.

"I .... I wanted to say that it is impossible to live so; it is torture" .... murmured she,

"There is some one there at the cupboard," he replied angrily. "Don't make a scene."

"Then let us go in here, then,"

Kitty wanted to go into the next room, but there the English governess was teaching Tania.

"Then let us go into the garden."

In the garden they ran across a muzhik who was weeding a path. And now no longer thinking that the muzhik would see her tearful or his agitated face, not thinking that they were in sight of people, as if running