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CHAPTER VIII.
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I HAD been very unwell before we left St. Petersburg, and instead of going home we moved into a villa1 at a short distance from the city, where my husband left me while he went to see his mother. I was then quite well enough to accompany him, but he urged me not to do so, alleging2 as his reason my state of health. I quite understood that he was not really afraid of my health, but he was possessed3 by the idea that it would not be good for us to be in the country; I did not insist very strenuously4, and remained where I was. Without him I felt myself truly in the midst of emptiness and isolation5; but when he returned I perceived that his presence no longer added to my life what it had been wont6 to add. Those former relations, when any thought, any sensation, not communicated to him, oppressed me like a crime; when all his actions, all his words, appeared to me models of perfection; when, from sheer joy, we would laugh at nothing, looking at each other; those relations had so insensibly changed into something quite different, that we ourselves hardly admitted the transformation7. But the fact was that each of us had now separate occupations and interests, which we no longer sought to share. We had even ceased to be at all troubled at thus living in entirely8 distinct worlds, and entirely as strangers to each other. We had become habituated to this thought, and at the end of a year there was no longer the mutual9 embarrassment10 when our eyes chanced to meet. His boyishness, his outbursts of light-hearted gaiety when with me, were gone; gone, too, was that indulgent
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villa
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transformation
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agitation
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precisely
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temperate
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splendor
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dominion
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inclinations
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bondage
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dreading
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alteration
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maternal
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benediction
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pretence
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elegance
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admiration
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passionately
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discomfiture
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haughty
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belle
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pointed
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malevolent
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pretext
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winding
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chestnuts
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exquisite
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vacuous
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doorway
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gracefully
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obstinately
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