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It was a wet day; it had been raining all the , and the

invalids, with their parasols, had flocked into the arcades

Kitty alking there with her mother and the Moscow colonel,

sht ready- on one side of the arcade, trying

to avoid Levin, alking on the other side Varenka, in

her dark dress, in a black hat with a turn-down brith of the arcade with a blind

Frenchwoed

friendly glances

"Ma her

unknown friend, and noticing that she was going up to the spring,

and that they ether

"Oh, if you want to so much, I'll find out about her first and

make her acquaintance myself," answered her mother "What do you

see in her out of the way? A companion, she must be If you

like, I'll make acquaintance with Madame Stahl; I used to know

her _belle-soeur_," added the princess, lifting her head haughtily

Kitty knew that the princess was offended that Mada her acquaintance Kitty did not insist

"Hoonderfully sweet she is!" she said, gazing at Varenka just