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Anna Karenina

but there are plenty of snipe. Only we ought to start early.
You’re not tired? Aren’t you tired, Stiva?’
‘Me tired? I’ve never been tired yet. Suppose we stay
up all night. Let’s go for a walk!’

‘Yes, really, let’s not go to bed at all! Capital!’
Veslovsky chimed in.
‘Oh, we all know you can do without sleep, and keep
other people up too,’ Dolly said to her husband, with that
faint note of irony in her voice which she almost always
had now with her husband. ‘But to my thinking, it’s time
for bed now.... I’m going, I don’t want supper.’
‘No, do stay a little, Dolly,’ said Stepan Arkadyevitch,
going round to her side behind the table where they were
having supper. ‘I’ve so much still to tell you.’
‘Nothing really, I suppose.’
‘Do you know Veslovsky has been at Anna’s, and he’s
going to them again? You know they’re hardly fifty miles
from you, and I too must certainly go over there.
Veslovsky, come here!’
Vassenka crossed over to the ladies, and sat down
beside Kitty.
‘Ah, do tell me, please; you have stayed with her? How
was she?’ Darya Alexandrovna appealed to him.

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