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Anna Karenina

‘What! you want to take Kitty in the wagonette?’ her
mother said reproachfully.
‘Yes, at a walking pace, princess.’
Levin never called the princess ‘maman’ as men often

do call their mothers-in-law, and the princess disliked his
not doing so. But though he liked and respected the
princess, Levin could not call her so without a sense of
profaning his feeling for his dead mother.
‘Come with us, maman,’ said Kitty.
‘I don’t like to see such imprudence.’
‘Well, I’ll walk then, I’m so well.’ Kitty got up and
went to her husband and took his hand.
‘You may be well, but everything in moderation,’ said
the princess.
‘Well, Agafea Mihalovna, is the jam done?’ said Levin,
smiling to Agafea Mihalovna, and trying to cheer her up.
‘Is it all right in the new way?’
‘I suppose it’s all right. For our notions it’s boiled too
long.’
‘It’ll be all the better, Agafea Mihalovna, it won’t
mildew, even though our ice has begun to thaw already,
so that we’ve no cool cellar to store it,’ said Kitty, at once
divining her husband’s motive, and addressing the old
housekeeper with the same feeling; ‘but your pickle’s so

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