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- PART V
CPiAPTER I
The morning that followed the fateful interview with 'Dovm.u
and her mother brought sobering influences to bear on Pyotr
Petrovitch. Intensely unpleasant as it was, he was forced little
by little to accept as a fact beyond recall what had seemed to him
only the day before fantastic and incredible. The black snake
of wounded vanity had been gnawing at his heart all night,
"When he got out of bed, Pyotr Petrovitch immediately lookec?
in the looking-glass. He was afraid that he had jaundice. How-
ever his health seemed unimpaired so far, and looking at his
noble, clear-skinned countenance which had grown Cattish of
late, Pyotr Petrovitch for an instant was positively comforted
in the conviction that he would find another bride and, perhaps,
even a better one. But coming back to the sense of his present
position, he turned aside and spat vigorously, which excited
a sarcastic smile in Andrey Semyonovitch Lebeziatnikov, the
young friend with whom he was staying. That smile Pyotr
Petrovitch noticed, and at once set it down against his young
friend's account. He had set down a good many points against
him of late. His anger was redoubled when he reflected that he
ought not to have told Andrey Semyonovitch about the result
of yesterday's interview. That was the second mistake he had
made in temper, through impulsiveness and irritability. . . .
Moreover, all that morning one unpleasantness followed an-
other. He even found a hitch awaiting him in his legal case
in the senate. He was particularly irritated by the owner of
the flat which had been taken in view of his approaching mar-
riage and was being redecorated at his own expense; the owner,
a rich German tradesman, would not entertain the idea of break-
ing the contract which had just been signed and insisted on tho
full forfeit money, though Pyotr Petrovitch would be giving
him back the flat practically redecorated. In the same way the
upholsterers refused to return a single rouble of the instalment
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