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Anna Karenina

‘So you keep to the left, and you’ll come right on it,’
said the peasant, unmistakably loth to let the travelers go,
and eager to converse.
The coachman started the horses, but they were only

just turning off when the peasant shouted: ‘Stop! Hi,
friend! Stop!’ called the two voices. The coachman
stopped.
‘They’re coming! They’re yonder!’ shouted the
peasant. ‘See what a turn-out!’ he said, pointing to four
persons on horseback, and two in a char-a-banc, coming
along the road.
They were Vronsky with a jockey, Veslovsky and Anna
on horseback, and Princess Varvara and Sviazhsky in the
char-a-banc. They had gone out to look at the working of
a new reaping machine.
When the carriage stopped, the party on horseback
were coming at a walking pace. Anna was in front beside
Veslovsky. Anna, quietly walking her horse, a sturdy
English cob with cropped mane and short tail, her
beautiful head with her black hair straying loose under her
high hat, her full shoulders, her slender waist in her black
riding habit, and all the ease and grace of her deportment,
impressed Dolly.

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