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I t was now close on twelve o’clock.
The prince knew that if he called at the Epanchins’
now he would only find the general, and that the latter
might probably carry him straight off to Pavlofsk with him;
whereas there was one visit he was most anxious to make
without delay.
So at the risk of missing General Epanchin altogether,
and thus postponing his visit to Pavlofsk for a day, at least,
the prince decided to go and look for the house he desired
to find.
The visit he was about to pay was, in some respects, a
risky one. He was in two minds about it, but knowing that
the house was in the Gorohovaya, not far from the Sadova-
ya, he determined to go in that direction, and to try to make
up his mind on the way.
Arrived at the point where the Gorohovaya crosses the
Sadovaya, he was surprised to find how excessively agitated
he was. He had no idea that his heart could beat so pain-
fully.
One house in the Gorohovaya began to attract his atten-
tion long before he reached it, and the prince remembered
afterwards that he had said to himself: ‘That is the house,
I’m sure of it.’ He came up to it quite curious to discover
whether he had guessed right, and felt that he would be dis-

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