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Anna Karenina

Varenka, hearing Kitty’s voice and her mother’s
reprimand, went with light, rapid steps up to Kitty. The
rapidity of her movement, her flushed and eager face,
everything betrayed that something out of the common

was going on in her. Kitty knew what this was, and had
been watching her intently. She called Varenka at that
moment merely in order mentally to give her a blessing
for the important event which, as Kitty fancied, was
bound to come to pass that day after dinner in the wood.
‘Varenka, I should be very happy if a certain something
were to happen,’ she whispered as she kissed her.
‘And are you coming with us?’ Varenka said to Levin
in confusion, pretending not to have heard what had been
said.
‘I am coming, but only as far as the threshing-floor, and
there I shall stop.’
‘Why, what do you want there?’ said Kitty.
‘I must go to have a look at the new wagons, and to
check the invoice,’ said Levin; ‘and where will you be?’
‘On the terrace.’

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