The children are growing up, my husband has come back to his family, and feels his fault, is growing purer, better, and I live on....

I have forgiven it, and you ought to forgive!" Alexey Alexandrovitch heard her, but her words had no effect on him now.

All the hatred of that day when he had resolved on a divorce had sprung up again in his soul.

He shook himself, and said in a shrill, loud voice:-- "Forgive I cannot, and do not wish to, and I regard it as wrong.