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Anna Karenina

‘I heard the name Vronsky, but I didn’t know which
one. I’m very, very glad!’
‘Let’s go in. Come, tell me what you’re doing.’
‘I’ve been living here for two years. I’m working.’

‘Ah!’ said Vronsky, with sympathy; ‘let’s go in.’ And
with the habit common with Russians, instead of saying in
Russian what he wanted to keep from the servants, he
began to speak in French.
‘Do you know Madame Karenina? We are traveling
together. I am going to see her now,’ he said in French,
carefully scrutinizing Golenishtchev’s face.
‘Ah! I did not know’ (though he did know),
Golenishtchev answered carelessly. ‘Have you been here
long?’ he added.
‘Four days,’ Vronsky answered, once more scrutinizing
his friend’s face intently.
‘Yes, he’s a decent fellow, and will look at the thing
properly,’ Vronsky said to himself, catching the
significance of Golenishtchev’s face and the change of
subject. ‘I can introduce him to Anna, he looks at it
properly.’
During those three months that Vronsky had spent
abroad with Anna, he had always on meeting new people
asked himself how the new person would look at his

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