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Anna Karenina

He did not look her in the face, and did not care to see
that she in her condition was trembling all over, and had a
piteous, crushed look.
‘I...I want to say that we can’t go on like this; that this

is misery...’ she said.
‘The servants are here at the sideboard,’ he said angrily;
‘don’t make a scene.’
‘Well, let’s go in here!’
They were standing in the passage. Kitty would have
gone into the next room, but there the English governess
was giving Tanya a lesson.
‘Well, come into the garden.’
In the garden they came upon a peasant weeding the
path. And no longer considering that the peasant could see
her tear-stained and his agitated face, that they looked like
people fleeing from some disaster, they went on with rapid
steps, feeling that they must speak out and clear up
misunderstandings, must be alone together, and so get rid
of the misery they were both feeling.
‘We can’t go on like this! It’s misery! I am wretched;
you are wretched. What for?’ she said, when they had at
last reached a solitary garden seat at a turn in the lime tree
avenue.

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