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Anna Karenina

blame? What’s the meaning of being to blame? Could it
have been otherwise? What do you think? Could it
possibly have happened that you didn’t become the wife
of Stiva?’

‘Really, I don’t know. But this is what I want you to
tell me..’
‘Yes, yes, but we’ve not finished about Kitty. Is she
happy? He’s a very nice man, they say.’
‘He’s much more than very nice. I don’t know a better
man.’
‘Ah, how glad I am! I’m so glad! Much more than very
nice,’ she repeated.
Dolly smiled.
‘But tell me about yourself. We’ve a great deal to talk
about. And I’ve had a talk with...’ Dolly did not know
what to call him. She felt it awkward to call him either the
count or Alexey Kirillovitch.
‘With Alexey,’ said Anna, ‘I know what you talked
about. But I wanted to ask you directly what you think of
me, of my life?’
‘How am I to say like that straight off? I really don’t
know.’
‘No, tell me all the same.... You see my life. But you
mustn’t forget that you’re seeing us in the summer, when

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