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Nekhludoff's first feeling on rising the following morning was that he had committed something abominable the preceding evening.
He began to recall what had happened. There was nothing abominable; he had done nothing wrong. He had only thought that all his present intentions -- that of marrying Katiousha, giving the land to the peasants -- artificial, unnatural, and that he must continued to live as he had lived before.