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Anna Karenina

‘No. Just look at him,’ said the little old man, pointing
with his embroidered hat to Karenin in a court uniform
with the new red ribbon across his shoulders, standing in
the doorway of the hall with an influential member of the

Imperial Council. ‘Pleased and happy as a brass farthing,’
he added, stopping to shake hands with a handsome
gentleman of the bedchamber of colossal proportions.
‘No; he’s looking older,’ said the gentleman of the
bedchamber.
‘From overwork. He’s always drawing up projects
nowadays. He won’t let a poor devil go nowadays till he’s
explained it all to him under heads.’
‘Looking older, did you say? Il fait des passions. I
believe Countess Lidia Ivanovna’s jealous now of his wife.’
‘Oh, come now, please don’t say any harm of Countess
Lidia Ivanovna.’
‘Why, is there any harm in her being in love with
Karenin?’
‘But is it true Madame Karenina’s here?’
‘Well, not here in the palace, but in Petersburg. I met
her yesterday with Alexey Vronsky, bras dessous, bras
dessous, in the Morsky.’
‘C’est un homme qui n’a pas...’ the gentleman of the
bedchamber was beginning, but he stopped to make

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