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Anna Karenina

‘Very bad. He can’t get up. He has kept expecting you.
He.... Are you...with your wife?’
Levin did not for the first moment understand what it
was confused her, but she immediately enlightened him.

‘I’ll go away. I’ll go down to the kitchen,’ she brought
out. ‘Nikolay Dmitrievitch will be delighted. He heard
about it, and knows your lady, and remembers her
abroad.’
Levin realized that she meant his wife, and did not
know what answer to make.
‘Come along, come along to him!’ he said.
But as soon as he moved, the door of his room opened
and Kitty peeped out. Levin crimsoned both from shame
and anger with his wife, who had put herself and him in
such a difficult position; but Marya Nikolaevna crimsoned
still more. She positively shrank together and flushed to
the point of tears, and clutching the ends of her apron in
both hands, twisted them in her red fingers without
knowing what to say and what to do.
For the first instant Levin saw an expression of eager
curiosity in the eyes with which Kitty looked at this awful
woman, so incomprehensible to her; but it lasted only a
single instant.

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