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Anna Karenina

‘The horses!—there’s no two opinions about them.
And the food was good. But it seemed to me sort of
dreary there, Darya Alexandrovna. I don’t know what you
thought,’ he said, turning his handsome, good-natured

face to her.
‘I thought so too. Well, shall we get home by evening?’
‘Eh, we must!’
On reaching home and finding everyone entirely
satisfactory and particularly charming, Darya Alexandrovna
began with great liveliness telling them how she had
arrived, how warmly they had received her, of the luxury
and good taste in which the Vronskys lived, and of their
recreations, and she would not allow a word to be said
against them.
‘One has to know Anna and Vronsky—I have got to
know him better now—to see how nice they are, and
how touching,’ she said, speaking now with perfect
sincerity, and forgetting the vague feeling of dissatisfaction
and awkwardness she had experienced there.

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