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Anna Karenina
Chapter 17
Next day at eleven o’clock in the morning Vronsky
drove to the station of the Petersburg railway to meet his
mother, and the first person he came across on the great
flight of steps was Oblonsky, who was expecting his sister
by the same train.
‘Ah! your excellency!’ cried Oblonsky, ‘whom are you
meeting?’
‘My mother,’ Vronsky responded, smiling, as everyone
did who met Oblonsky. He shook hands with him, and
together they ascended the steps. ‘She is to be here from
Petersburg today.’
‘I was looking out for you till two o’clock last night.
Where did you go after the Shtcherbatskys’?’
‘Home,’ answered Vronsky. ‘I must own I felt so well
content yesterday after the Shtcherbatskys’ that I didn’t
care to go anywhere.’
‘I know a gallant steed by tokens sure,
And by his eyes I know a youth in love,’
declaimed Stepan Arkadyevitch, just as he had done
before to Levin.
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