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Anna Karenina

‘Not at all, not at all. Not once since I’ve been married
have I said that things could have been better than they
are...’
‘Truly?’ she said, looking into his eyes.

He had said it without thinking, simply to console her.
But when he glanced at her and saw those sweet truthful
eyes fastened questioningly on him, he repeated it with his
whole heart. ‘I was positively forgetting her,’ he thought.
And he remembered what was before them, so soon to
come.
‘Will it be soon? How do you feel?’ he whispered,
taking her two hands.
‘I have so often thought so, that now I don’t think
about it or know anything about it.’
‘And you’re not frightened?’
She smiled contemptuously.
‘Not the least little bit,’ she said.
‘Well, if anything happens, I shall be at Katavasov’s.’
‘No, nothing will happen, and don’t think about it. I’m
going for a walk on the boulevard with papa. We’re going
to see Dolly. I shall expect you before dinner. Oh, yes! Do
you know that Dolly’s position is becoming utterly
impossible? She’s in debt all round; she hasn’t a penny. We
were talking yesterday with mamma and Arseny’ (this was

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