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Anna Karenina

said the last words wounded her, especially because he
evidently did not believe what she had said.
‘I tell you, that if you go, I shall come with you; I shall
certainly come,’ she said hastily and wrathfully. ‘Why out

of the question? Why do you say it’s out of the question?’
‘Because it’ll be going God knows where, by all sorts of
roads and to all sorts of hotels. You would be a hindrance
to me,’ said Levin, trying to be cool.
‘Not at all. I don’t want anything. Where you can go, I
can...’
‘Well, for one thing then, because this woman’s there
whom you can’t meet.’
‘I don’t know and don’t care to know who’s there and
what. I know that my husband’s brother is dying and my
husband is going to him, and I go with my husband too...’
‘Kitty! Don’t get angry. But just think a little: this is a
matter of such importance that I can’t bear to think that
you should bring in a feeling of weakness, of dislike to
being left alone. Come, you’ll be dull alone, so go and stay
at Moscow a little.’
‘There, you always ascribe base, vile motives to me,’
she said with tears of wounded pride and fury. ‘I didn’t
mean, it wasn’t weakness, it wasn’t...I feel that it’s my duty
to be with my husband when he’s in trouble, but you try

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