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Anna Karenina

And didn’t Biryuzovsky and Madame Avenieva...and Sam
Nikandrov, and Vassiliev and Madame Mamonova, and
Liza Neptunova... Did no one say anything about them?
And it has ended by their being received by everyone.

And then, c’est un interieur si joli, si comme il faut. Tout-
a-fait a l’anglaise. On se reunit le matin au breakfast, et
puis on se separe. Everyone does as he pleases till
dinnertime. Dinner at seven o’clock. Stiva did very rightly
to send you. He needs their support. You know that
through his mother and brother he can do anything. And
then they do so much good. He didn’t tell you about his
hospital? Ce sera admirable—everything from Paris.’
Their conversation was interrupted by Anna, who had
found the men of the party in the billiard room, and
returned with them to the terrace. There was still a long
time before the dinner-hour, it was exquisite weather, and
so several different methods of spending the next two
hours were proposed. There were very many methods of
passing the time at Vozdvizhenskoe, and these were all
unlike those in use at Pokrovskoe.
‘Une partie de lawn-tennis,’ Veslovsky proposed, with
his handsome smile. ‘We’ll be partners again, Anna
Arkadyevna.’

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