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Anna Karenina

‘But you are upset about something? What have you
come for?’ asked Dolly. ‘What’s going on there?’
And in the tone of her question Levin heard that it
would be easy for him to say what he had meant to say.

‘I’ve not been in there, I’ve been alone in the garden
with Kitty. We’ve had a quarrel for the second time
since...Stiva came.’
Dolly looked at him with her shrewd, comprehending
eyes.
‘Come, tell me, honor bright, has there been...not in
Kitty, but in that gentleman’s behavior, a tone which
might be unpleasant— not unpleasant, but horrible,
offensive to a husband?’
‘You mean, how shall I say.... Stay, stay in the corner!’
she said to Masha, who, detecting a faint smile in her
mother’s face, had been turning round. ‘The opinion of
the world would be that he is behaving as young men do
behave. Il fait la cour a une jeune et jolie femme, and a
husband who’s a man of the world should only be flattered
by it.’
‘Yes, yes,’ said Levin gloomily; ‘but you noticed it?’
‘Not only I, but Stiva noticed it. Just after breakfast he
said to me in so many words, Je crois que Veslovsky fait
un petit brin de cour a Kitty.’

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