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And besides, how can I now, after what Darya Alexandrovna told

me, go to see them? Can I help showing that I know what she told

me? And me to go magnanimously to forgive her, and have pity on

her! Me go through a performance before her of forgiving, and

deigning to bestow my love on her!... What induced Darya

Alexandrovna to tell me that? By chance I might have seen her,

then everything would have happened of itself; but, as it is,

it's out of the question, out of the question!"

Darya Alexandrovna sent him a letter, asking him for a

side-saddle for Kitty's use. "I'm told you have a side-saddle,"

she wrote to him; "I hope you will bring it over yourself."