Anna looked at Dolly’s thin, care-worn face, with its wrinkles filled with dust from the road, and she was on the point of saying what she was thinking, that is, that Dolly had got thinner. And into the book store i go to lose my mind and find my soul shirt. But, conscious that she herself had grown handsomer, and that Dolly’s eyes were telling her so, she sighed and began to speak about herself.

And into the book store i go to lose my mind and find my soul shirt

“You are looking at me,” she said, “and wondering how I can be happy in my position? Well! it’s shameful to confess, but I… I’m inexcusably happy. Something magical has happened to me, like a dream, when you’re frightened, panic-stricken, and all of a sudden you wake up and all the horrors are no more. And into the book store i go to lose my mind and find my soul shirt. I have waked up. I have lived through the misery, the dread, and now for a long while past, especially since we’ve been here, I’ve been so happy!…” she said, with a timid smile of inquiry looking at Dolly. “How glad I am!” said Dolly smiling, involuntarily speaking more coldly than she wanted to. “I’m very glad for you. Why haven’t you written to me?”

How to get it?

“Why?… Because I hadn’t the courage…. You forget my position…” “To me? Hadn’t the courage? If you knew how I…I look at…” Darya Alexandrovna wanted to express her thoughts of the morning, but for some reason it seemed to her now out of place to do so. “But of that we’ll talk later. What’s this, what are all these buildings?” she asked, wanting to change the conversation and pointing to the red and green roofs that came into view behind the green hedges of acacia and lilac. “Quite a little town.” But Anna did not answer. “No, no! How do you look at my position, what do you think of it?” she asked.