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Anna Karenina

calculation that there divas a certain price below which he
could not sell certain grain was forgotten too. The rye, for
the price of which he had so long held out, had been sold
for fifty kopecks a measure cheaper than it had been

fetching a month ago. Even the consideration that with
such an expenditure he could not go on living for a year
without debt, that even had no force. Only one thing was
essential: to have money in the bank, without inquiring
where it came from, so as to know that one had the
wherewithal to buy meat for tomorrow. And this
condition had hitherto been fulfilled; he had always had
the money in the bank. But now the money in the bank
had gone, and he could not quite tell where to get the
next installment. And this it was which, at the moment
when Kitty had mentioned money, had disturbed him; but
he had no time to think about it. He drove off, thinking
of Katavasov and the meeting with Metrov that was before
him.

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