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Anna Karenina

Ivanovitch to go looking for mushrooms with Varenka
confirmed certain theories of Kitty’s with which her mind
had been very busy of late. She made haste to address
some remark to her mother, so that her look should not

be noticed. After dinner Sergey Ivanovitch sat with his
cup of coffee at the drawing-room window, and while he
took part in a conversation he had begun with his brother,
he watched the door through which the children would
start on the mushroom-picking expedition. Levin was
sitting in the window near his brother.
Kitty stood beside her husband, evidently awaiting the
end of a conversation that had no interest for her, in order
to tell him something.
‘You have changed in many respects since your
marriage, and for the better,’ said Sergey Ivanovitch,
smiling to Kitty, and obviously little interested in the
conversation, ‘but you have remained true to your passion
for defending the most paradoxical theories.’
‘Katya, it’s not good for you to stand,’ her husband said
to her, putting a chair for her and looking significantly at
her.
‘Oh, and there’s no time either,’ added Sergey
Ivanovitch, seeing the children running out.

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