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Anna Karenina

shook his hand. She went out with the rapid step which
bore her rather fully-developed figure with such strange
lightness.
‘Very charming,’ said the countess.

That was just what her son was thinking. His eyes
followed her till her graceful figure was out of sight, and
then the smile remained on his face. He saw out of the
window how she went up to her brother, put her arm in
his, and began telling him something eagerly, obviously
something that had nothing to do with him, Vronsky, and
at that he felt annoyed.
‘Well, maman, are you perfectly well?’ he repeated,
turning to his mother.
‘Everything has been delightful. Alexander has been
very good, and Marie has grown very pretty. She’s very
interesting.’
And she began telling him again of what interested her
most—the christening of her grandson, for which she had
been staying in Petersburg, and the special favor shown
her elder son by the Tsar.
‘Here’s Lavrenty,’ said Vronsky, looking out of the
window; ‘now we can go, if you like.’

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