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Anna Karenina

‘By the autumn it will all be ready. Iside almost
everything is done,’ said Anna.
‘And what’s this new building?’
‘That’s the house for the doctor and the dispensary,’

answered Vronsky, seeing the architect in a short jacket
coming towards him; and excusing himself to the ladies,
he went to meet him.
Going round a hole where the workmen were slaking
lime, he stood still with the architect and began talking
rather warmly.
‘The front is still too low,’ he said to Anna, who had
asked what was the matter.
‘I said the foundation ought to be raised,’ said Anna.
‘Yes, of course it would have been much better, Anna
Arkadyevna,’ said the architect, ‘but now it’s too late.’
‘Yes, I take a great interest in it,’ Anna answered
Sviazhsky, who was expressing his surprise at her
knowledge of architecture. ‘This new building ought to
have been in harmony with the hospital. It was an
afterthought, and was begun without a plan.’
Vronsky, having finished his talk with the architect,
joined the ladies, and led them inside the hospital.
Although they were still at work on the cornices
outside and were painting on the ground floor, upstairs

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