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Anna Karenina

‘Good evening, maman. I have come to you,’ he said
coldly.
‘Why aren’t you going to faire la cour a Madame
Karenina?’ she went on, when Princess Sorokina had

moved away. ‘Elle fait sensation. On oublie la Patti pour
elle.’
‘Maman, I have asked you not to say anything to me of
that,’ he answered, scowling.
‘I’m only saying what everyone’s saying.’
Vronsky made no reply, and saying a few words to
Princess Sorokina, he went away. At the door he met his
brother.
‘Ah, Alexey!’ said his brother. ‘How disgusting! Idiot of
a woman, nothing else.... I wanted to go straight to her.
Let’s go together.’
Vronsky did not hear him. With rapid steps he went
downstairs; he felt that he must do something, but he did
not know what. Anger with her for having put herself and
him in such a false position, together with pity for her
suffering, filled his heart. He went down, and made
straight for Anna’s box. At her box stood Stremov, talking
to her.
‘There are no more tenors. Le moule en est brise!’
Vronsky bowed to her and stopped to greet Stremov.

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