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Anna Karenina

on purpose to hurt me, you try on purpose not to
understand...’
‘No; this is awful! To be such a slave!’ cried Levin,
getting up, and unable to restrain his anger any longer. But

at the same second he felt that he was beating himself.
‘Then why did you marry? You could have been free.
Why did you, if you regret it?’ she said, getting up and
running away into the drawing room.
When he went to her, she was sobbing.
He began to speak, trying to find words not to dissuade
but simply to soothe her. But she did not heed him, and
would not agree to anything. He bent down to her and
took her hand, which resisted him. He kissed her hand,
kissed her hair, kissed her hand again—still she was silent.
But when he took her face in both his hands and said
‘Kitty!’ she suddenly recovered herself, and began to cry,
and they were reconciled.
It was decided that they should go together the next
day. Levin told his wife that he believed she wanted to go
simply in order to be of use, agreed that Marya
Nikolaevna’s being with his brother did not make her
going improper, but he set off at the bottom of his heart
dissatisfied both with her and with himself. He was
dissatisfied with her for being unable to make up her mind

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