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Anna Karenina

approaching the steps where the whole party, children and
grown-up, were gathered together in much excitement,
Levin saw Vassenka Veslovsky, with a particularly warm
and gallant air, kissing Kitty’s hand.

‘Your wife arid I are cousins and very old friends,’ said
Vassenka Veslovsky, once more shaking Levin’s hand with
great warmth.
‘Well, are there plenty of birds?’ Stepan Arkadyevitch
said to Levin, hardly leaving time for everyone to utter
their greetings. ‘We’ve come with the most savage
intentions. Why, maman, they’ve not been in Moscow
since! Look, Tanya, here’s something for you! Get it,
please, it’s in the carriage, behind!’ he talked in all
directions. ‘How pretty you’ve grown, Dolly,’ he said to
his wife, once more kissing her hand, holding it in one of
his, and patting it with the other.
Levin, who a minute before had been in the happiest
frame of mind, now looked darkly at everyone, and
everything displeased him.
‘Who was it he kissed yesterday with those lips?’ he
thought, looking at Stepan Arkadyevitch’s tender
demonstrations to his wife. He looked at Dolly, and he did
not like her either.

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