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Anna Karenina

‘Kostya, do you know I’ve only fifty roubles left?’
‘Oh, all right, I’ll go to the bank and get some. How
much?’ he said, with the expression of dissatisfaction she
knew so well.

‘No, wait a minute.’ She held his hand. ‘Let’s talk
about it, it worries me. I seem to spend nothing
unnecessary, but money seems to fly away simply. We
don’t manage well, somehow.’
‘Oh, it’s all right,’ he said with a little cough, looking at
her from under his brows.
That cough she knew well. It was a sign of intense
dissatisfaction, not with her, but with himself. He certainly
was displeased not at so much money being spent, but at
being reminded of what he, knowing something was
unsatisfactory, wanted to forget.
‘I have told Sokolov to sell the wheat, and to borrow
an advance on the mill. We shall have money enough in
any case.’
‘Yes, but I’m afraid that altogether..’
‘Oh, it’s all right, all right,’ he repeated. ‘Well, good-
bye, darling.’
‘No, I’m really sorry sometimes that I listened to
mamma. How nice it would have been in the country! As
it is, I’m worrying you all, and we’re wasting our money.’

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