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"What, what is it you want to make me feel, eh?" said Kitty

quickly. "That I've been in love with a man who didn't care a

straw for me, and that I'm dying of love for him? And this is

said to me by my own sister, who imagines that ... that ... that

she's sympathizing with me!... I don't want these condolences and

humbug!"

"Kitty, you're unjust."

"Why are you tormenting me?"

"But I ... quite the contrary ... I see you're unhappy...."

But Kitty in her fury did not hear her.

"I've nothing to grieve over and be comforted about. I am too

proud ever to allow myself to care for a man who does not love

me."

"Yes, I don't say so either.... Only one thing. Tell me the

truth," said Darya Alexandrovna, taking her by the hand: "tell

me, did Levin speak to you?..."

The mention of Levin's name seemed to deprive Kitty of the last

vestige of self-control. She leaped up from her chair, and

flinging her clasp on the ground, she gesticulated rapidly with

her hands and said: