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The feeling of jealousy, which had tortured him during the period

of uncertainty, had passed away at the instant when the tooth had

been with agony extracted by his wife's words. But that feeling

had been replaced by another, the desire, not merely that she

should not be triumphant, but that she should get due punishment

for her crime. He did not acknowledge this feeling, but at the

bottom of his heart he longed for her to suffer for having

destroyed his peace of mind-his honor. And going once again over

the conditions inseparable from a duel, a divorce, a separation,

and once again rejecting them, Alexey Alexandrovitch felt

convinced that there was only one solution,-to keep her with him,

concealing what had happened from the world, and using every

measure in his power to break off the intrigue, and still

more-though this he did not admit to himself-to punish her.