morning he was conscious of it in himself, and conscious that in

this love he became one with her. Ah! if it had all stopped

there, at the point it had reached that night. "Yes, all that

horrible business had not yet happened on that Easter eve!" he

thought, as he sat by the window of the jurymen's room.

When he returned from church Nekhludoff broke the fast with his

aunts and took a glass of spirits and some wine, having got into

that habit while with his regiment, and when he reached his room