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Anna Karenina

way that everything to the faintest intonation and smile
would have been approved by her husband, whose unseen
presence she seemed to feel about her at that instant.
She said a few words to him, even smiled serenely at

his joke about the elections, which he called ‘our
parliament.’ (She had to smile to show she saw the joke.)
But she turned away immediately to Princess Marya
Borissovna, and did not once glance at him till he got up
to go; then she looked at him, but evidently only because
it would be uncivil not to look at a man when he is saying
good-bye.
She was grateful to her father for saying nothing to her
about their meeting Vronsky, but she saw by his special
warmth to her after the visit during their usual walk that
he was pleased with her. She was pleased with herself. She
had not expected she would have had the power, while
keeping somewhere in the bottom of her heart all the
memories of her old feeling for Vronsky, not only to seem
but to be perfectly indifferent and composed with him.
Levin flushed a great deal more than she when she told
him she had met Vronsky at Princess Marya Borissovna’s.
It was very hard for her to tell him this, but still harder to
go on speaking of the details of the meeting, as he did not
question her, but simply gazed at her with a frown.

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