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Anna Karenina

Chapter 32

When Vronsky returned home, Anna was not yet
home. Soon after he had left, some lady, so they told him,
had come to see her, and she had gone out with her. That
she had gone out without leaving word where she was
going, that she had not yet come back, and that all the
morning she had been going about somewhere without a
word to him—all this, together with the strange look of
excitement in her face in the morning, and the
recollection of the hostile tone with which she had before
Yashvin almost snatched her son’s photographs out of his
hands, made him serious. He decided he absolutely must
speak openly with her. And he waited for her in her
drawing room. But Anna did not return alone, but
brought with her her old unmarried aunt, Princess
Oblonskaya. This was the lady who had come in the
morning, and with whom Anna had gone out shopping.
Anna appeared not to notice Vronsky’s worried and
inquiring expression, and began a lively account of her
morning’s shopping. He saw that there was something
working within her; in her flashing eyes, when they rested
for a moment on him, there was an intense concentration,

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