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Anna Karenina

out. I do love making a fool of him before Kitty, and I’ll
do it.’
‘Konstantin Dmitrievitch,’ she said to him, ‘do explain
to me, please, what’s the meaning of it. You know all

about such things. At home in our village of Kaluga all the
peasants and all the women have drunk up all they
possessed, and now they can’t pay us any rent. What’s the
meaning of that? You always praise the peasants so.’
At that instant another lady came into the room, and
Levin got up.
‘Excuse me, countess, but I really know nothing about
it, and can’t tell you anything,’ he said, and looked round
at the officer who came in behind the lady.
‘That must be Vronsky,’ thought Levin, and, to be sure
of it, glanced at Kitty. She had already had time to look at
Vronsky, and looked round at Levin. And simply from the
look in her eyes, that grew unconsciously brighter, Levin
knew that she loved that man, knew it as surely as if she
had told him so in words. But what sort of a man was he?
Now, whether for good or for ill, Levin could not choose
but remain; he must find out what the man was like
whom she loved.
There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no
matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on

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