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Anna Karenina

‘Society!’ he said contemptuously, ‘how could I miss
society?’
‘So far—and it may be so always—you are happy and at
peace. I see in Anna that she is happy, perfectly happy, she

has had time to tell me so much already,’ said Darya
Alexandrovna, smiling; and involuntarily, as she said this,
at the same moment a doubt entered her mind whether
Anna really were happy.
But Vronsky, it appeared, had no doubts on that score.
‘Yes, yes,’ he said, ‘I know that she has revived after all
her sufferings; she is happy. She is happy in the present.
But I?... I am afraid of what is before us...I beg your
pardon, you would like to walk on?’
‘No, I don’t mind.’
‘Well, then, let us sit here.’
Darya Alexandrovna sat down on a garden seat in a
corner of the avenue. He stood up facing her.
‘I see that she is happy,’ he repeated, and the doubt
whether she were happy sank more deeply into Darya
Alexandrovna’s mind. ‘But can it last? Whether we have
acted rightly or wrongly is another question, but the die is
cast,’ he said, passing from Russian to French, ‘and we are
bound together for life. We are united by all the ties of
love that we hold most sacred. We have a child, we may

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