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"You know I made an offer and that I was refused," said Levin,

and all the tenderness he had been feeling for Kitty a minute

before was replaced by a feeling of anger for the slight he had

suffered.

"What makes you suppose I know?"

"Because everybody knows it...."

"That's just where you are mistaken; I did not know it, though I

had guessed it was so."

"Well, now you know it."

"All I knew was that something had happened that made her

dreadfully miserable, and that she begged me never to speak of

it. And if she would not tell me, she would certainly not speak

of it to anyone else. But what did pass between you? Tell me."

"I have told you."

"When was it?"

"When I was at their house the last time."

"Do you know that," said Darya Alexandrovna, "I am awfully,

awfully sorry for her. You suffer only from pride...."

"Perhaps so," said Levin, "but...."

She interrupted him.

"But she, poor girl ... I am awfully, awfully sorry for her. Now

I see it all."