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 90 "You thought to frighten me with your power," continued she significantly flashing her eyes on him; "that will never happen; but what I know I would do to you, perhaps even before your threats, that I will do."

"What does this mean? Get out!" Zinovey Borisych shouted at Sergei.

"Make him," said Katerina Lvovna with a sneer.

She went quietly to the door, locked it, and putting the key in her pocket lolled again on the bed.

"Now then Serezhenka come, come here, my darling," she said, coaxing the clerk towards her.

Sergei shook his curls and boldly sat down near the mistress.

"Good Lord! My God! what is this? What are you doing, you savages," cried Zinovey Borisych getting livid and rising from his chair.

"What? Don't you like it? See here, see here; my bright-eyed falcon, isn't he a beauty?"

Katerina Lvovna laughed and kissed Sergei passionately before her husband's eyes.

At that moment she received a deafening blow on her cheek, and Zinovey Borisych hurried to the open window.