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Anna Karenina

Chapter 13

After dinner, and till the beginning of the evening,
Kitty was feeling a sensation akin to the sensation of a
young man before a battle. Her heat throbbed violently,
and her thoughts would not rest on anything.
She felt that this evening, when they would both meet
for the first time, would be a turning point in her life. And
she was continually picturing them to herself, at one
moment each separately, and then both together. When
she mused on the past, she dwelt with pleasure, with
tenderness, on the memories of her relations with Levin.
The memories of childhood and of Levin’s friendship with
her dead brother gave a special poetic charm to her
relations with him. His love for her, of which she felt
certain, was flattering and delightful to her; and it was
pleasant for her to think of Levin. In her memories of
Vronsky there always entered a certain element of
awkwardness, though he was in the highest degree well-
bred and at ease, as though there were some false note—
not in Vronsky, he was very simple and nice, but in
herself, while with Levin she felt perfectly simple and
clear. But, on the other hand, directly she thought of the

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