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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

CHAPTER XXI
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I saw that, after the first interview, her eyes were already glittering, glittering strangely, and that, thanks to my jealousy, between him and her had been immediately established that sort of electric current which is provoked by an identity of expression in the smile and in the eyes.
"We talked, at the first interview, of music, of Paris, and of all sorts of trivialities.

He rose to go.

Pressing his hat against his swaying hip, he stood erect, looking now at her and now at me, as if waiting to see what she would do.

I remember that minute, precisely because it was in my power not to invite him.

I need not have invited him, and then nothing would have happened.


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