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Anna Karenina

‘But where is he? How is it he leaves me alone in my
misery?’ she thought all at once with a feeling of reproach,
forgetting she had herself kept from him everything
concerning her son. She sent to ask him to come to her

immediately; with a throbbing heart she awaited him,
rehearsing to herself the words in which she would tell
him all, and the expressions of love with which he would
console her. The messenger returned with the answer that
he had a visitor with him, but that he would come
immediately, and that he asked whether she would let him
bring with him Prince Yashvin, who had just arrived in
Petersburg. ‘He’s not coming alone, and since dinner
yesterday he has not seen me,’ she thought; ‘he’s not
coming so that I could tell him everything, but coming
with Yashvin.’ And all at once a strange idea came to her:
what if he had ceased to love her?
And going over the events of the last few days, it
seemed to her that she saw in everything a confirmation of
this terrible idea. The fact that he had not dined at home
yesterday, and the fact that he had insisted on their taking
separate sets of rooms in Petersburg, and that even now he
was not coming to her alone, as though he were trying to
avoid meeting her face to face.

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