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"No, she does not love him and cannot love him," he decided to

himself.

At the moment when he was approaching Anna Arkadyevna he noticed

too with joy that she was conscious of his being near, and looked

round, and seeing him, turned again to her husband.

"Have you passed a good night?" he asked, bowing to her and her

husband together, and leaving it up to Alexey Alexandrovitch to

accept the bow on his own account, and to recognize it or not, as

he might see fit.

"Thank you, very good," she answered.