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Anna Karenina

One advantage in this town life was that quarrels hardly
ever happened between them here in town. Whether it
was that their conditions were different, or that they had
both become more careful and sensible in that respect,

they had no quarrels in Moscow from jealousy, which
they had so dreaded when they moved from the country.
One event, an event of great importance to both from
that point of view, did indeed happen—that was Kitty’s
meeting with Vronsky.
The old Princess Marya Borissovna, Kitty’s godmother,
who had always been very fond of her, had insisted on
seeing her. Kitty, though she did not go into society at all
on account of her condition, went with her father to see
the venerable old lady, and there met Vronsky.
The only thing Kitty could reproach herself for at this
meeting was that at the instant when she recognized in his
civilian dress the features once so familiar to her, her
breath failed her, the blood rushed to her heart, and a
vivid blush—she felt it— overspread her face. But this
lasted only a few seconds. Before her father, who
purposely began talking in a loud voice to Vronsky, had
finished, she was perfectly ready to look at Vronsky, to
speak to him, if necessary, exactly as she spoke to Princess
Marya Borissovna, and more than that, to do so in such a

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