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Anna Karenina

‘I’m late already,’ he answered. ‘Run along! I’ll catch
you up in a moment,’ he called to Yashvin.
She took him by the hand, and without taking her eyes
off him, gazed at him while she ransacked her mind for

the words to say that would keep him.
‘Wait a minute, there’s something I want to say to
you,’ and taking his broad hand she pressed it on her neck.
‘Oh, was it right my asking him to dinner?’
‘You did quite right,’ he said with a serene smile that
showed his even teeth, and he kissed her hand.
‘Alexey, you have not changed to me?’ she said,
pressing his hand in both of hers. ‘Alexey, I am miserable
here. When are we going away?’
‘Soon, soon. You wouldn’t believe how disagreeable
our way of living here is to me too,’ he said, and he drew
away his hand.
‘Well, go, go!’ she said in a tone of offense, and she
walked quickly away from him.

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