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Anna Karenina

to be a help to her. Have I understood you rightly?’ he
asked, looking round at her.
‘Oh, yes,’ answered Darya Alexandrovna, putting down
her sunshade, ‘but..’

‘No,’ he broke in, and unconsciously, oblivious of the
awkward position into which he was putting his
companion, he stopped abruptly, so that she had to stop
short too. ‘No one feels more deeply and intensely than I
do all the difficulty of Anna’s position; and that you may
well understand, if you do me the honor of supposing I
have any heart. I am to blame for that position, and that is
why I feel it.’
‘I understand,’ said Darya Alexandrovna, involuntarily
admiring the sincerity and firmness with which he said
this. ‘But just because you feel yourself responsible, you
exaggerate it, I am afraid,’ she said. ‘Her position in the
world is difficult, I can well understand.’
‘In the world it is hell!’ he brought out quickly,
frowning darkly. ‘You can’t imagine moral sufferings
greater than what she went through in Petersburg in that
fortnight...and I beg you to believe it.’
‘Yes, but here, so long as neither Anna...nor you miss
society..’

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