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Anna Karenina

wanted, and could still think of something outside her
love. This had jarred upon him then, and now her trivial
cares and anxieties jarred upon him several times. But he
saw that this was essential for her. And, loving her as he

did, though he did not understand the reason of them, and
jeered at these domestic pursuits, he could not help
admiring them. He jeered at the way in which she
arranged the furniture they had brought from Moscow;
rearranged their room; hung up curtains; prepared rooms
for visitors; a room for Dolly; saw after an abode for her
new maid; ordered dinner of the old cook; came into
collision with Agafea Mihalovna, taking from her the
charge of the stores. He saw how the old cook smiled,
admiring her, and listening to her inexperienced,
impossible orders, how mournfully and tenderly Agafea
Mihalovna shook her head over the young mistress’s new
arrangements. He saw that Kitty was extraordinarily sweet
when, laughing and crying, she came to tell him that her
maid, Masha, was used to looking upon her as her young
lady, and so no one obeyed her. It seemed to him sweet,
but strange, and he thought it would have been better
without this.
He did not know how great a sense of change she was
experiencing; she, who at home had sometimes wanted

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