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Anna Karenina

thing that spoiled the charm of this manner of life was that
her husband was not here as she loved him to be, and as
he was in the country.
She liked his serene, friendly, and hospitable manner in

the country. In the town he seemed continually uneasy
and on his guard, as though he were afraid someone
would be rude to him, and still more to her. At home in
the country, knowing himself distinctly to be in his right
place, he was never in haste to be off elsewhere. He was
never unoccupied. Here in town he was in a continual
hurry, as though afraid of missing something, and yet he
had nothing to do. And she felt sorry for him. To others,
she knew, he did not appear an object of pity. On the
contrary, when Kitty looked at him in society, as one
sometimes looks at those one loves, trying to see him as if
he were a stranger, so as to catch the impression he must
make on others, she saw with a panic even of jealous fear
that he was far indeed from being a pitiable figure, that he
was very attractive with his fine breeding, his rather old-
fashioned, reserved courtesy with women, his powerful
figure, and striking, as she thought, and expressive face.
But she saw him not from without, but from within; she
saw that here he was not himself; that was the only way
she could define his condition to herself. Sometimes she

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