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Anna Karenina

‘I am very sorry you weren’t there,’ she said. ‘Not that
you weren’t in the room...I couldn’t have been so natural
in your presence...I am blushing now much more, much,
much more,’ she said, blushing till the tears came into her

eyes. ‘But that you couldn’t see through a crack.’
The truthful eyes told Levin that she was satisfied with
herself, and in spite of her blushing he was quickly
reassured and began questioning her, which was all she
wanted. When he had heard everything, even to the detail
that for the first second she could not help flushing, but
that afterwards she was just as direct and as much at her
ease as with any chance acquaintance, Levin was quite
happy again and said he was glad of it, and would not now
behave as stupidly as he had done at the election, but
would try the first time he met Vronsky to be as friendly
as possible.
‘It’s so wretched to feel that there’s a man almost an
enemy whom it’s painful to meet,’ said Levin. ‘I’m very,
very glad.’

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