Nekhludoff's soul. Up to now, expecting her acquittal and

thinking she would remain in the town, he was uncertain how to

act towards her. Any kind of relations with her would be so very

difficult. But Siberia and penal servitude at once cut off every

possibility of any kind of relations with her. The wounded bird

would stop struggling in the game-bag, and no longer remind him

Peter Gerasimovitch's assumption was correct. The president came

back from the debating room with a paper, and read as