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Anna Karenina
work together seemed to have put a barrier between them
that cut off warmer relations.
After signing the papers brought him, Alexey
Alexandrovitch had sat for a long while in silence,
glancing at Mihail Vassilievitch, and several times he
attempted to speak, but could not. He had already
prepared the phrase: ‘You have heard of my trouble?’ But
he ended by saying, as usual: ‘So you’ll get this ready for
me?’ and with that dismissed him.
The other person was the doctor, who had also a
kindly feeling for him; but there had long existed a
taciturn understanding between them that both were
weighed down by work, and always in a hurry.
Of his women friends, foremost amongst them
Countess Lidia Ivanovna, Alexey Alexandrovitch never
thought. All women, simply as women, were terrible and
distasteful to him.
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