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Anna Karenina

understand it all, made minute inquiries about everything,
which gave Vronsky great satisfaction.
‘Yes, I imagine that this will be the solitary example of
a properly fitted hospital in Russia,’ said Sviazhsky.

‘And won’t you have a lying-in ward?’ asked Dolly.
‘That’s so much needed in the country. I have often..’
In spite of his usual courtesy, Vronsky interrupted her.
‘This is not a lying-in home, but a hospital for the sick,
and is intended for all diseases, except infectious
complaints,’ he said. ‘Ah! look at this,’ and he rolled up to
Darya Alexandrovna an invalid chair that had just been
ordered for the convalescents. ‘Look.’ He sat down in the
chair and began moving it. ‘The patient can’t walk—still
too weak, perhaps, or something wrong with his legs, but
he must have air, and he moves, rolls himself along...’
Darya Alexandrovna was interested by everything. She
liked everything very much, but most of all she liked
Vronsky himself with his natural, simple-hearted
eagerness. ‘Yes, he’s a very nice, good man,’ she thought
several times, not hearing what he said, but looking at him
and penetrating into his expression, while she mentally put
herself in Anna’s place. She liked him so much just now
with his eager interest that she saw how Anna could be in
love with him.

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