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Anna Karenina

Besides the charm Oblonsky had in general for
everyone, Vronsky had felt of late specially drawn to him
by the fact that in his imagination he was associated with
Kitty.

‘Well, what do you say? Shall we give a supper on
Sunday for the diva?’ he said to him with a smile, taking
his arm.
‘Of course. I’m collecting subscriptions. Oh, did yo
make the acquaintance of my friend Levin?’ asked Stepan
Arkadyevitch.
‘Yes; but he left rather early.’
‘He’s a capital fellow,’ pursued Oblonsky. ‘Isn’t he?’
‘I don’t know why it is,’ responded Vronsky, ‘in all
Moscow people—present company of course excepted,’
he put in jestingly, ‘there’s something uncompromising.
They are all on the defensive, lose their tempers, as though
they all want to make one feel something..’
‘Yes, that’s true, it is so,’ said Stepan Arkadyevitch,
laughing good-humoredly.
‘Will the train soon be in?’ Vronsky asked a railway
official.
‘The train’s signaled,’ answered the man.
The approach of the train was more and more evident
by the preparatory bustle in the station, the rush of porters,

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