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Anna Karenina

making on him. She tried to please him, not by her words
only, but in her whole person. For his sake it was that she
now lavished more care on her dress than before. She
caught herself in reveries on what might have been, if she

had not been married and he had been free. She blushed
with emotion when he came into the room, she could not
repress a smile of rapture when he said anything amiable to
her.
For several days now Countess Lidia Ivanovna had
been in a state of intense excitement. She had learned that
Anna and Vronsky were in Petersburg. Alexey
Alexandrovitch must be saved from seeing her, he must be
saved even from the torturing knowledge that that awful
woman was in the same town with him, and that he might
meet her any minute.
Lidia Ivanovna made inquiries through her friends as to
what those infamous people, as she called Anna and
Vronsky, intended doing, and she endeavored so to guide
every movement of her friend during those days that he
could not come across them. The young adjutant, an
acquaintance of Vronsky, through whom she obtained her
information, and who hoped through Countess Lidia
Ivanovna to obtain a concession, told her that they had
finished their business and were going away next day.

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