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Anna Karenina

Chapter 2

On the terrace were assembled all the ladies of the
party. They always liked sitting there after dinner, and that
day they had work to do there too. Besides the sewing and
knitting of baby clothes, with which all of them were
busy, that afternoon jam was being made on the terrace by
a method new to Agafea Mihalovna, without the addition
of water. Kitty had introduced this new method, which
had been in use in her home. Agafea Mihalovna, to whom
the task of jam-making had always been intrusted,
considering that what had been done in the Levin
household could not be amiss, had nevertheless put water
with the strawberries, maintaining that the jam could not
be made without it. She had been caught in the act, and
was now making jam before everyone, and it was to be
proved to her conclusively that jam could be very well
made without water.
Agafea Mihalovna, her face heated and angry, her hair
untidy, and her thin arms bare to the elbows, was turning
the preserving-pan over the charcoal stove, looking darkly
at the raspberries and devoutly hoping they would stick
and not cook properly. The princess, conscious that

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