Chapter 315

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Chapter 24 "Well, was it nice?" she asked, coming out to meet him with a penitent and meek expression. "Just as usual," he answered, seeing at a glance that she was in One of her good moods. He was used by now to these transitions, and he was particularly glad to see it today, as he was in a specially good humor himself. "What do I see? Come, that's good!" he said, pointing to the boxes in the passage. "Yes, we must go. I went out for a drive, and it was so fine I longed to be in the country. There's nothing to keep you, is there?" "It's the one thing I desire. I'll be back directly, and we'll talk it over; I only want to change my coat. Order some tea." And he went into his room. There was something mortifying in the way he had said "Come, that's good," as one says to a child when

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