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Anna Karenina

But the sick man’s interest did not last long.
Before she had finished speaking, there had come back
into his face the stern, reproachful expression of the dying
man’s envy of the living.

‘I am afraid you are not quite comfortable here,’ she
said, turning away from his fixed stare, and looking about
the room. ‘We must ask about another room,’ she said to
her husband, ‘so that we might be nearer.’

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