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Anna Karenina

As soon as she had said it, she felt that however warm
his feelings were to her, he had not forgiven her for that.
‘Yes,’ he said, ‘the letter was so strange. First, Annie ill,
and then you thought of coming yourself.’

‘It was all the truth.’
‘Oh, I don’t doubt it.’
‘Yes, you do doubt it. You are vexed, I see.’
‘Not for one moment. I’m only vexed, that’s true, that
you seem somehow unwilling to admit that there are
duties..’
‘The duty of going to a concert..’
‘But we won’t talk about it,’ he said.
‘Why not talk about it?’ she said.
‘I only meant to say that matters of real importance
may turn up. Now, for instance, I shall have to go to
Moscow to arrange about the house.... Oh, Anna, why are
you so irritable? Don’t you know that I can’t live without
you?’
‘If so,’ said Anna, her voice suddenly changing, ‘it
means that you are sick of this life.... Yes, you will come
for a day and go away, as men do..’
‘Anna, that’s cruel. I am ready to give up my whole
life.’
But she did not hear him.

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