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Anna Karenina

The old butler who had traveled with the countess,
came to the carriage to announce that everything was
ready, and the countess got up to go.
‘Come; there’s not such a crowd now,’ said Vronsky.

The maid took a handbag and the lap dog, the butler
and a porter the other baggage. Vronsky gave his mother
his arm; but just as they were getting out of the carriage
several men ran suddenly by with panic-stricken faces.
The station-master, too, ran by in his extraordinary
colored cap. Obviously something unusual had happened.
The crowd who had left the train were running back
again.
‘What?... What?... Where?... Flung himself!...
Crushed!...’ was heard among the crowd. Stepan
Arkadyevitch, with his sister on his arm, turned back.
They too looked scared, and stopped at the carriage door
to avoid the crowd.
The ladies go in, while Vronsky and Stepan
Arkadyevitch followed the crowd to find out details of the
disaster.
A guard, either dunk or too much muffled up in the
bitter frost, had not heard the train moving back, and had
been crushed.

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