A countess of extravagant lifestyle contemplates divorcing and/or murdering her less and less solvent husband, arranges for a servant to commit the crime, and travels with the count and accessory to Switzerland, where she herself is strangled to death; later, Ivan, their murderer, reflects on the ills of the aristocracy, flees to Moscow, is haunted by the iconic sables that appear as animate, and starves to death. See mums312-b236-i014 for fragment of first draft.
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