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Anna Karenina

some favorite dish, or sweets, without the possibility of
getting either, now could order what she liked, buy
pounds of sweets, spend as much money as she liked, and
order any puddings she pleased.

She was dreaming with delight now of Dolly’s coming
to them with her children, especially because she would
order for the children their favorite puddings and Dolly
would appreciate all her new housekeeping. She did not
know herself why and wherefore, but the arranging of her
house had an irresistible attraction for her. Istinctively
feeling the approach of spring, and knowing that there
would be days of rough weather too, she built her nest as
best she could, and was in haste at the same time to build
it and to learn how to do it.
This care for domestic details in Kitty, so opposed to
Levin’s ideal of exalted happiness, was at first one of the
disappointments; and this sweet care of her household, the
aim of which he did not understand, but could not help
loving, was one of the new happy surprises.
Another disappointment and happy surprise came in
their quarrels. Levin could never have conceived that
between him and his wife any relations could arise other
than tender, respectful and loving, and all at once in the
very early days they quarreled, so that she said he did not

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