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Anna Karenina

to understand that the short and familiar word ‘suddenly’ is
an adverb of manner of action. Still he was sorry that he
had disappointed the teacher.
He chose a moment when the teacher was looking in

silence at the book.
‘Mihail Ivanitch, when is your birthday?’ he asked all,
of a sudden.
‘You’d much better be thinking about your work.
Birthdays are of no importance to a rational being. It’s a
day like any other on which one has to do one’s work.’
Seryozha looked intently at the teacher, at his scanty
beard, at his spectacles, which had slipped down below the
ridge on his nose, and fell into so deep a reverie that he
heard nothing of what the teacher was explaining to him.
He knew that the teacher did not think what he said; he
felt it from the tone in which it was said. ‘But why have
they all agreed to speak just in the same manner always the
dreariest and most useless stuff? Why does he keep me off;
why doesn’t he love me?’ he asked himself mournfully,
and could not think of an answer.

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