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Anna Karenina

‘Well, that’s all right then; now I’m satisfied. I’ll send
him away,’ said Levin.
‘What do you mean!b Are you crazy?’ Dolly cried in
horror; ‘nonsense, Kostya, only think!’ she said, laughing.

‘You can go now to Fanny,’ she said to Masha. ‘No, if
you wish it, I’ll speak to Stiva. He’ll take him away. He
can say you’re expecting visitors. Altogether he doesn’t fit
into the house.’
‘No, no, I’ll do it myself.’
‘But you’ll quarrel with him?’
‘Not a bit. I shall so enjoy it,’ Levin said, his eyes
flashing with real enjoyment. ‘Come, forgive her, Dolly,
she won’t do it again,’ he said of the little sinner, who had
not gone to Fanny, but was standing irresolutely before
her mother, waiting and looking up from under her brows
to catch her mother’s eye.
The mother glanced at her. The child broke into sobs,
hid her face on her mother’s lap, and Dolly laid her thin,
tender hand on her head.
‘And what is there in common between us and him?’
thought Levin, and he went off to look for Veslovsky.
As he passed through the passage he gave orders for the
carriage to be got ready to drive to the station.
‘The spring was broken yesterday,’ said the footman.

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