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Anna Karenina

‘Splendid!’
‘Well, and how was the old woman? I hope it’s not
typhus?’
‘Typhus it is not, but it’s taking a bad turn.’

‘What a pity!’ said Anna, and having thus paid the dues
of civility to her domestic circle, she turned to her own
friends.
‘It would be a hard task, though, to construct a
machine from your description, Anna Arkadyevna,’
Sviazhsky said jestingly.
‘Oh, no, why so?’ said Anna with a smile that betrayed
that she knew there was something charming in her
disquisitions upon the machine that had been noticed by
Sviazhsky. This new trait of girlish coquettishness made an
unpleasant impression on Dolly.
‘But Anna Arkadyevna’s knowledge of architecture is
marvelous,’ said Tushkevitch.
‘To be sure, I heard Anna Arkadyevna talking yesterday
about plinths and damp-courses,’ said Veslovsky. ‘Have I
got it right?’
‘There’s nothing marvelous about it, when one sees
and hears so much of it,’ said Anna. ‘But, I dare say, you
don’t even know what houses are made of?’

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