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Anna Karenina

Alexey Alexandrovitch shuddered at the allusion to his
wife, but immediately his face assumed the deathlike
rigidity which expressed utter helplessness in the matter.
‘I was expecting it,’ he said.

Countess Lidia Ivanovna looked at him ecstatically, and
tears of rapture at the greatness of his soul came into her
eyes.

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