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Title: The Awakening
The Resurrection

Author: Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy

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THE AWAKENING

(The Resurrection)

by

COUNT LEO TOLSTOI

Author of

"War and Peace," "The Kreutzer Sonata,"
"Anna Karenina," Etc.

Translated by William E. Smith

[Illustration: COUNT LEO TOLSTOI.]

New York
Street & Smith, Publishers
238 William Street
Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1900
By Street & Smith
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"Then came Peter to Him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my
brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven
times?"--_Matthew, c. xviii.; v. 21._

"Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven
times: but until seventy times seven."--_Idem, v. 22._

"And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's
eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own
eye!"--_Idem, c. vii.; v. 3._

"He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a
stone at her."--_John, c. viii.; v. 7._

"The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is
perfect shall be as his master."--_Luke, c. vi.; v. 40._

THE AWAKENING.

PART FIRST.

CHAPTER I.

All the efforts of several hundred thousand people, crowded in a small
space, to disfigure the land on which they lived; all the stone they
covered it with to keep it barren; h