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Anna Karenina

well and loved. Any other woman, a less close observer,
not knowing Anna before, or not having thought as Darya
Alexandrovna had been thinking on the road, would not
have noticed anything special in Anna. But now Dolly was

struck by that temporary beauty, which is only found in
women during the moments of love, and which she saw
now in Anna’s face. Everything in her face, the clearly
marked dimples in her cheeks and chin, the line of her
lips, the smile which, as it were, fluttered about her face,
the brilliance of her eyes, the grace and rapidity of her
move meets, the fulness of the notes of her voice, even the
manner in which, with a sort of angry friendliness, she
answered Veslovsky when he asked permission to get on
her cob, so as to teach it to gallop with the right leg
foremost—it was all peculiarly fascinating, and it seemed as
if she were herself aware of it, and rejoicing in it.
When both the women were seated in the carriage, a
sudden embarrassment came over both of them. Anna was
disconcerted by the intent look of inquiry Dolly fixed
upon her. Dolly was embarrassed because after Sviazhsky’s
phrase about ‘this vehicle,’ she could not help feeling
ashamed of the dirty old carriage in which Anna was
sitting with her. The coachman Philip and the counting
house clerk were experiencing the same sensation. The

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