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Anna Karenina

Chapter 1

The Levins had been three months in Moscow. The
date had long passed on which, according to the most
trustworthy calculations of people learned in such matters,
Kitty should have been confined. But she was still about,
and there was nothing to show that her time was any
nearer than two months ago. The doctor, the monthly
nurse, and Dolly and her mother, and most of all Levin,
who could not think of the approaching event without
terror, began to be impatient and uneasy. Kitty was the
only person who felt perfectly calm and happy.
She was distinctly conscious now of the birth of a new
feeling of love for the future child, for her to some extent
actually existing already, and she brooded blissfully over
this feeling. He was not by now altogether a part of
herself, but sometimes lived his own life independently of
her. Often this separate being gave her pain, but at the

same time she wanted to laugh with a strange new joy.
All the people she loved were with her, and all were so
good to her, so attentively caring for her, so entirely
pleasant was everything presented to her, that if she had
not known and felt that it must all soon be over, she could
not have wished for a better and pleasanter life. The only

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