" "What would you have? The world's made so," said Stepan Arkadyevitch.

"The one comfort is like that prayer, which I always liked: 'Forgive me not according to my unworthiness, but according to Thy lovingkindness.

' That's the only way she can forgive me.

" Levin emptied his glass, and they were silent for a while.

"There's one other thing I ought to tell you.