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Anna Karenina

‘I? I was thinking.... No, no, go along, go on writing;
don’t break off,’ she said, pursing up her lips, ‘and I must
cut out these little holes now, do you see?’
She took up her scissors and began cutting them out.

‘No; tell me, what was it?’ he said, sitting down beside
her and watching the tiny scissors moving round.
‘Oh! what was I thinking about? I was thinking about
Moscow, about the back of your head.’
‘Why should I, of all people, have such happiness! It’s
unnatural, too good,’ he said, kissing her hand.
‘I feel quite the opposite; the better things are, the
more natural it seems to me.’
‘And you’ve got a little curl loose,’ he said, carefully
turning her head round.
‘A little curl, oh yes. No, no, we are busy at our work!’
Work did not progress further, and they darted apart
from one another like culprits when Kouzma came in to
announce that tea was ready.
‘Have they come from the town?’ Levin asked
Kouzma.
‘They’ve just come; they’re unpacking the things.’
‘Come quickly,’ she said to him as she went out of the
study, ‘or else I shall read your letters without you.’

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