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Anna Karenina

The motive of Kitty’s words was interpreted by Levin
thus: ‘Don’t separate me from HIM. I don’t care about
YOUR going, but do let me enjoy the society of this
delightful young man.’

‘Oh, if you wish, we’ll stay here tomorrow,’ Levin
answered, with peculiar amiability.
Vassenka meanwhile, utterly unsuspecting the misery
his presence had occasioned, got up from the table after
Kitty, and watching her with smiling and admiring eyes,
he followed her.
Levin saw that look. He turned white, and for a minute
he could hardly breathe. ‘How dare he look at my wife
like that!’ was the feeling that boiled within him.
‘Tomorrow, then? Do, please, let us go,’ said Vassenka,
sitting down on a chair, and again crossing his leg as his
habit was.
Levin’s jealousy went further still. Already he saw
himself a deceived husband, looked upon by his wife and
her lover as simply necessary to provide them with the
conveniences and pleasures of life.... But in spite of that he
made polite and hospitable inquiries of Vassenka about his
shooting, his gun, and his boots, and agreed to go shooting
next day.

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