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Anna Karenina

‘You’ll catch all that up. They’re such clever children.
The great thing is the education of character. That’s what
I learn when I look at your children.’
‘You talk of the education of character. You can’t

imagine how difficult that is! You have hardly succeeded
in combating one tendency when others crop up, and the
struggle begins again. If one had not a support in
religion—you remember we talked about that—no father
could bring children up relying on his own strength alone
without that help.’
This subject, which always interested Levin, was cut
short by the entrance of the beauty Natalia Alexandrovna,
dressed to go out.
‘I didn’t know you were here,’ she said, unmistakably
feeling no regret, but a positive pleasure, in interrupting
this conversation on a topic she had heard so much of that
she was by now weary of it. ‘Well, how is Kitty? I am
dining with you today. I tell you what, Arseny,’ she
turned to her husband, ‘you take the carriage.’
And the husband and wife began to discuss their
arrangements for the day. As the husband had to drive to
meet someone on official business, while the wife had to
go to the concert and some public meeting of a committee
on the Eastern Question, there was a great deal to consider

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