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Anna Karenina

for it, as for something ordinary that did happen to people,
jarred on him as confusing and humiliating.
But the princess did not understand his feelings, and
put down his reluctance to think and talk about it to

carelessness and indifference, and so she gave him no
peace. She had commissioned Stepan Arkadyevitch to
look at a fiat, and now she called Levin up.
‘I know nothing about it, princess. Do as you think fit,’
he said.
‘You must decide when you will move.’
‘I really don’t know. I know millions of children are
born away from Moscow, and doctors...why..’
‘But if so..’
‘Oh, no, as Kitty wishes.’
‘We can’t talk to Kitty about it! Do you want me to
frighten her? Why, this spring Natalia Golitzina died from
having an ignorant doctor.’
‘I will do just what you say,’ he said gloomily.
The princess began talking to him, but he did not hear
her. Though the conversation with the princess had
indeed jarred upon him, he was gloomy, not on account
of that conversation, but from what he saw at the samovar.

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