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‘Oh, no!’ he said, and his face beamed with pleasure. ‘If
you could only have seen that court last spring!’
And he began, at first rather diffidently, but more and
more carried away by the subject as he went on, to draw

her attention to the various details of the decoration of his
house and garden. It was evident that, having devoted a
great deal of trouble to improve and beautify his home,
Vronsky felt a need to show off the improvements to a
new person, and was genuinely delighted at Darya
Alexandrovna’s praise.
‘If you would care to look at the hospital, and are not
tired, indeed, it’s not far. Shall we go?’ he said, glancing
into her face to convince himself that she was not bored.
‘Are you coming, Anna?’ he turned to her.
‘We will come, won’t we?’ she said, addressing
Sviazhsky. ‘Mais il ne faut pas laisser le pauvre Veslovsky
et Tushkevitch se morfondre la dans le bateau. We must
send and tell them.’
‘Yes, this is a monument he is setting up here,’ said
Anna, turning to Dolly with that sly smile of
comprehension with which she had previously talked
about the hospital.

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