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Anna Karenina

Chapter 29

One of Anna’s objects in coming back to Russia had
been to see her son. From the day she left Italy the
thought of it had never ceased to agitate her. And as she
got nearer to Petersburg, the delight and importance of
this meeting grew ever greater in her imagination. She did
not even put to herself the question how to arrange it. It
seemed to her natural and simple to see her son when she
should be in the same town with him. But on her arrival
in Petersburg she was suddenly made distinctly aware of
her present position in society, and she grasped the fact
that to arrange this meeting was no easy matter.
She had now been two days in Petersburg. The
thought of her son never left her for a single instant, but
she had not yet seen him. To go straight to the house,
where she might meet Alexey Alexandrovitch, that she felt
she had no right to do. She might be refused admittance
and insulted. To write and so enter into relations with her
husband—that it made her miserable to think of doing;
she could only be at peace when she did not think of her
husband. To get a glimpse of her son out walking, finding
out where and when he went out, was not enough for

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