"Terrible! It is difficult to say whether the cruelty or the

absurdity is greater, but the one and the other seem to reach

their climax."

Nekhludoff thought all this, no longer listening to what was

going on, and he was horror-struck by that which was being

revealed to him. He could not understand why he had not been able

to see all this before, and why others were unable to see it.




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