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Anna Karenina

wanted to know what it meant; then feeling sure that he
could not make it out he began to be bored. Then
recalling all the excitement and vindictiveness he had seen
on all the faces, he felt sad; he made up his mind to go,

and went downstairs. As he passed through the entry to
the galleries he met a dejected high school boy walking up
and down with tired-looking eyes. On the stairs he met a
couple—a lady running quickly on her high heels and the
jaunty deputy prosecutor.
‘I told you you weren’t late,’ the deputy prosecutor was
saying at the moment when Levin moved aside to let the
lady pass.
Levin was on the stairs to the way out, and was just
feeling in his waistcoat pocket for the number of his
overcoat, when the secretary overtook him.
‘This way, please, Konstantin Dmitrievitch; they are
voting.’
The candidate who was being voted on was
Nevyedovsky, who had so stoutly denied all idea of
standing. Levin went up to the door of the room; it was
locked. The secretary knocked, the door opened, and
Levin was met by two red-faced gentlemen, who darted
out.

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