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ardent passion for Miss Sundukow, and when he ventured to offer her his hand, it was without any reference to her fortune. It was her beauty and amiable disposition that captivated him. As to Glafira, she seemed to have no aversion to the young man; nay, she was pleased with his company and conversation, and she loved to hear him play old tunes on the recumbent harp; but she felt no particular inclination for him, and therefore took the rejection of his overtures by her father very quietly.

This mortification, however, had not wholly broken off Kudrin's intercourse with Sundukow's family. The nurse of the fair Glafira was wholly devoted to him, partly out of pity, and partly because he was as liberal in his presents to her as his circumstances permitted. She frequently gave him accounts of her mistress, and sometimes too contrived to remind the latter of her discarded lover.

A fortnight after the arrival of young Chabarow, Kudrin was informed by the nurse that Glafira was betrothed. Though the hapless lover had long been deprived of all hopes, still this intelligence afflicted him exceedingly. He wept, pined, and became quite melancholy.

Thus began and terminated the successful suit of Chabarow. At the very first interview he took a fancy to Glafira; after he had seen her a few times, he fell in love with her, and

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