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Anna Karenina

Leaving the Princess Sorokina with her mother, Varya
held out her hand to her brother-in-law, and began
immediately to speak of what interested him. She was
more excited than he had ever seen her.

‘I think it’s mean and hateful, and Madame Kartasova
had no right to do it. Madame Karenina...’ she began.
‘But what is it? I don’t know.’
‘What? you’ve not heard?’
‘You know I should be the last person to hear of it.’
‘There isn’t a more spiteful creature than that Madame
Kartasova!’
‘But what did she do?’
‘My husband told me.... She has insulted Madame
Karenina. Her husband began talking to her across the
box, and Madame Kartasova made a scene. She said
something aloud, he says, something insulting, and went
away.’
‘Count, your maman is asking for you,’ said the young
Princess Sorokina, peeping out of the door of the box.
‘I’ve been expecting you all the while,’ said his mother,
smiling sarcastically. ‘You were nowhere to be seen.’
Her son saw that she could not suppress a smile of
delight.

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