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361
Her
character
was
absolutely
changed
.
No
more
of
the
girlish
alternations
of
timidity
and
petulance
,
the
adorable
naivete
,
the
reveries
,
the
tears
,
the
playfulness
...
It
was
an
entirely
new
and
hitherto
unknown
being
who
now
sat
and
laughed
at
him
,
and
informed
him
to
his
face
that
she
had
never
had
the
faintest
feeling
for
him
of
any
kind
,
except
loathing
and
contempt
--
contempt
which
had
followed
closely
upon
her
sensations
of
surprise
and
bewilderment
after
her
first
acquaintance
with
him
.
362
This
new
woman
gave
him
further
to
understand
that
though
it
was
absolutely
the
same
to
her
whom
he
married
,
yet
she
had
decided
to
prevent
this
marriage
--
for
no
particular
reason
,
but
that
she
chose
to
do
so
,
and
because
she
wished
to
amuse
herself
at
his
expense
for
that
it
was
"
quite
her
turn
to
laugh
a
little
now
!
"
363
Such
were
her
words
--
very
likely
she
did
not
give
her
real
reason
for
this
eccentric
conduct
;
but
,
at
all
events
,
that
was
all
the
explanation
she
deigned
to
offer
.
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364
Meanwhile
,
Totski
thought
the
matter
over
as
well
as
his
scattered
ideas
would
permit
.
His
meditations
lasted
a
fortnight
,
however
,
and
at
the
end
of
that
time
his
resolution
was
taken
.
365
The
fact
was
,
Totski
was
at
that
time
a
man
of
fifty
years
of
age
;
his
position
was
solid
and
respectable
;
his
place
in
society
had
long
been
firmly
fixed
upon
safe
foundations
;
he
loved
himself
,
his
personal
comforts
,
and
his
position
better
than
all
the
world
,
as
every
respectable
gentleman
should
!
366
At
the
same
time
his
grasp
of
things
in
general
soon
showed
Totski
that
he
now
had
to
deal
with
a
being
who
was
outside
the
pale
of
the
ordinary
rules
of
traditional
behaviour
,
and
who
would
not
only
threaten
mischief
but
would
undoubtedly
carry
it
out
,
and
stop
for
no
one
.
367
There
was
evidently
,
he
concluded
,
something
at
work
here
;
some
storm
of
the
mind
,
some
paroxysm
of
romantic
anger
,
goodness
knows
against
whom
or
what
,
some
insatiable
contempt
--
in
a
word
,
something
altogether
absurd
and
impossible
,
but
at
the
same
time
most
dangerous
to
be
met
with
by
any
respectable
person
with
a
position
in
society
to
keep
up
.
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368
For
a
man
of
Totski
's
wealth
and
standing
,
it
would
,
of
course
,
have
been
the
simplest
possible
matter
to
take
steps
which
would
rid
him
at
once
from
all
annoyance
;
while
it
was
obviously
impossible
for
Nastasia
Philipovna
to
harm
him
in
any
way
,
either
legally
or
by
stirring
up
a
scandal
,
for
,
in
case
of
the
latter
danger
,
he
could
so
easily
remove
her
to
a
sphere
of
safety
.
However
,
these
arguments
would
only
hold
good
in
case
of
Nastasia
acting
as
others
might
in
such
an
emergency
.
She
was
much
more
likely
to
overstep
the
bounds
of
reasonable
conduct
by
some
extraordinary
eccentricity
.
369
Here
the
sound
judgment
of
Totski
stood
him
in
good
stead
.
He
realized
that
Nastasia
Philipovna
must
be
well
aware
that
she
could
do
nothing
by
legal
means
to
injure
him
,
and
that
her
flashing
eyes
betrayed
some
entirely
different
intention
.
370
Nastasia
Philipovna
was
quite
capable
of
ruining
herself
,
and
even
of
perpetrating
something
which
would
send
her
to
Siberia
,
for
the
mere
pleasure
of
injuring
a
man
for
whom
she
had
developed
so
inhuman
a
sense
of
loathing
and
contempt
.
He
had
sufficient
insight
to
understand
that
she
valued
nothing
in
the
world
--
herself
least
of
all
--
and
he
made
no
attempt
to
conceal
the
fact
that
he
was
a
coward
in
some
respects
.
For
instance
,
if
he
had
been
told
that
he
would
be
stabbed
at
the
altar
,
or
publicly
insulted
,
he
would
undoubtedly
have
been
frightened
;
but
not
so
much
at
the
idea
of
being
murdered
,
or
wounded
,
or
insulted
,
as
at
the
thought
that
if
such
things
were
to
happen
he
would
be
made
to
look
ridiculous
in
the
eyes
of
society
.