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Anna Karenina

you have come to us and we are not alone.... But we
came here early in the spring, lived quite alone, and shall
be alone again, and I desire nothing better. But imagine
me living alone without him, alone, and that will be...I see

by everything that it will often be repeated, that he will be
half the time away from home,’ she said, getting up and
sitting down close by Dolly.
‘Of course,’ she interrupted Dolly, who would have
answered, ‘of course I won’t try to keep him by force. I
don’t keep him indeed. The races are just coming, his
horses are running, he will go. I’m very glad. But think of
me, fancy my position.... But what’s the use of talking
about it?’ She smiled. ‘Well, what did he talk about with
you?’
‘He spoke of what I want to speak about of myself, and
it’s easy for me to be his advocate; of whether there is not
a possibility ...whether you could not...’ (Darya
Alexandrovna hesitated) ‘correct, improve your position....
You know how I look at it.... But all the same, if possible,
you should get married...’
‘Divorce, you mean?’ said Anna. ‘Do you know, the
only woman who came to see me in Petersburg was Betsy
Tverskaya? You know her, of course? Au fond, c’est la
femme la plus depravee qui existe. She had an intrigue

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