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Anna Karenina

Chapter 33

Vronsky for the first time experienced a feeling of
anger against Anna, almost a hatred for her willfully
refusing to understand her own position. This feeling was
aggravated by his being unable to tell her plainly the cause
of his anger. If he had told her directly what he was
thinking, he would have said:
‘In that dress, with a princess only too well known to
everyone, to show yourself at the theater is equivalent not
merely to acknowledging your position as a fallen woman,
but is flinging down a challenge to society, that is to say,
cutting yourself off from it forever.’
He could not say that to her. ‘But how can she fail to
see it, and what is going on in her?’ he said to himself. He
felt at the same time that his respect for her was
diminished while his sense of her beauty was intensified.
He went back scowling to his rooms, and sitting down
beside Yashvin, who, with his long legs stretched out on a
chair, was drinking brandy and seltzer water, he ordered a
glass of the same for himself.
‘You were talking of Lankovsky’s Powerful. That’s a
fine horse, and I would advise you to buy him,’ said

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