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The foot Levin into the

waiting roo,Three minutes passed; it

seeone by He could not

wait any longer

"Pyotr D

voice at the open door "For God's sake, forgive me! See me as

you are It's been going on more than two hours already"

"In a minute; in a minute!" answered a voice, and to his

a as he spoke

"For one instant"

"In a minute"

Twoon his

boots, and two minutes more while the doctor put on his coat and

coain in a plaintive

voice, just as the doctor came in dressed and ready "These

people have no conscience," thought Levin "Co!" the doctor said to hi hi to be as accurate as possible, Levin began to tell him

every unnecessary detail of his wife's condition, interrupting

his account repeatedly with entreaties that the doctor would come

with him at once