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Anna Karenina

mamma, I somehow expect things to be settled today.
You know what I mean. How splendid it would be!’
‘But what a famous matchmaker she is!’ said Dolly.
‘How carefully and cleverly she throws them together!..’

‘No; tell me, mamma, what do you think?’
‘Why, what is one to think? He’ (HE meant Sergey
Ivanovitch) ‘might at any time have been a match for
anyone in Russia; now, of course, he’s not quite a young
man, still I know ever so many girls would be glad to
marry him even now.... She’s a very nice girl, but he
might..’
‘Oh, no, mamma, do understand why, for him and for
her too, nothing better could be imagined. In the first
place, she’s charming!’ said Kitty, crooking one of her
fingers.
‘He thinks her very attractive, that’s certain,’ assented
Dolly.
‘Then he occupies such a position in society that he has
no need to look for either fortune or position in his wife.
All he needs is a good, sweet wife—a restful one.’
‘Well, with her he would certainly be restful,’ Dolly
assented.
‘Thirdly, that she should love him. And so it is...that is,
it would be so splendid!...I look forward to seeing them

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