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Anna Karenina

‘she writes to me that Nikolay, my brother, is at death’s
door. I shall go to him.’
Kitty’s face changed at once. Thoughts of Tanya as a
marquise, of Dolly, all had vanished.

‘When are you going?’ she said.
‘Tomorrow.’
‘And I will go with you, can I?’ she said.
‘Kitty! What are you thinking of?’ he said
reproachfully.
‘How do you mean?’ offended that he should seem to
take her suggestion unwillingly and with vexation. ‘Why
shouldn’t I go? I shan’t be in your way. I..’
‘I’m going because my brother is dying,’ said Levin.
‘Why should you..’
‘Why? For the same reason as you.’
‘And, at a moment of such gravity for me, she only
thinks of her being dull by herself,’ thought Levin. And
this lack of candor in a matter of such gravity infuriated
him.
‘It’s out of the question,’ he said sternly.
Agafea Mihalovna, seeing that it was coming to a
quarrel, gently put down her cup and withdrew. Kitty did
not even notice her. The tone in which her husband had

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