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Anna Karenina

‘To be sure,’ said Stepan Arkadyevitch. ‘And you,
Kitty?’
‘I? Why should I go?’ Kitty said, flushing all over, and
she glanced round at her husband.

‘Do you know Anna Arkadyevna, then?’ Veslovsky
asked her. ‘She’s a very fascinating woman.’
‘Yes,’ she answered Veslovsky, crimsoning still more.
She got up and walked across to her husband.
‘Are you going shooting, then, tomorrow?’ she said.
His jealousy had in these few moments, especially at the
flush that had overspread her cheeks while she was talking
to Veslovsky, gone far indeed. Now as he heard her
words, he construed them in his own fashion. Strange as it
was to him afterwards to recall it, it seemed to him at the
moment clear that in asking whether he was going
shooting, all she cared to know was whether he would
give that pleasure to Vassenka Veslovsky, with whom, as
he fancied, she was in love.
‘Yes, I’m going,’ he answered her in an unnatural
voice, disagreeable to himself.
‘No, better spend the day here tomorrow, or Dolly
won’t see anything of her husband, and set off the day
after,’ said Kitty.

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