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Anna Karenina

to overlook everything for the sake of the comforts she
enjoyed.
As a general principle, abstractly, Dolly approved of
Anna’s action; but to see the man for whose sake her

action had been taken was disagreeable to her. Moreover,
she had never liked Vronsky. She thought him very
proud, and saw nothing in him of which he could be
proud except his wealth. But against her own will, here in
his own house, he overawed her more than ever, and she
could not be at ease with him. She felt with him the same
feeling she had had with the maid about her dressing
jacket. Just as with the maid she had felt not exactly
ashamed, but embarrassed at her darns, so she felt with
him not exactly ashamed, but embarrassed at herself.
Dolly was ill at ease, and tried to find a subject of
conversation. Even though she supposed that, through his
pride, praise of his house and garden would be sure to be
disagreeable to him, she did all the same tell him how
much she liked his house.
‘Yes, it’s a very fine building, and in the good old-
fashioned style,’ he said.
‘I like so much the court in front of the steps. Was that
always so?’

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