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Anna Karenina

Levin was left at the other end of the table, and though
never pausing in his conversation with the princess and
Varenka, he saw that there was an eager and mysterious
conversation going on between Stepan Arkadyevitch,

Dolly, Kitty, and Veslovsky. And that was not all. He saw
on his wife’s face an expression of real feeling as she gazed
with fixed eyes on the handsome face of Vassenka, who
was telling them something with great animation.
‘It’s exceedingly nice at their place,’ Veslovsky was
telling them about Vronsky and Anna. ‘I can’t, of course,
take it upon myself to judge, but in their house you feel
the real feeling of home.’
‘What do they intend doing?’
‘I believe they think of going to Moscow.’
‘How jolly it would be for us all to go over to them
together’ When are you going there?’ Stepan
Arkadyevitch asked Vassenka.
‘I’m spending July there.’
‘Will you go?’ Stepan Arkadyevitch said to his wife.
‘I’ve been wanting to a long while; I shall certainly go,’
said Dolly. ‘I am sorry for her, and I know her. She’s a
splendid woman. I will go alone, when you go back, and
then I shall be in no one’s way. And it will be better
indeed without you.’

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