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Anna Karenina

‘No, it’s too hot; better stroll about the garden and
have a row in the boat, show Darya Alexandrovna the
river banks.’ Vronsky proposed.
‘I agree to anything,’ said Sviazhsky.

‘I imagine that what Dolly would like best would be a
stroll— wouldn’t you? And then the boat, perhaps,’ said
Anna.
So it was decided. Veslovsky and Tushkevitch went off
to the bathing place, promising to get the boat ready and
to wait there for them.
They walked along the path in two couples, Anna with
Sviazhsky, and Dolly with Vronsky. Dolly was a little
embarrassed and anxious in the new surroundings in
which she found herself. Abstractly, theoretically, she did
not merely justify, she positively approved of Anna’s
conduct. As is indeed not unfrequent with women of
unimpeachable virtue, weary of the monotony of
respectable existence, at a distance she not only excused
illicit love, she positively envied it. Besides, she loved
Anna with all her heart. But seeing Anna in actual life
among these strangers, with this fashionable tone that was
so new to Darya Alexandrovna, she felt ill at ease. What
she disliked particularly was seeing Princess Varvara ready

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