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Anna Karenina

public trial. But, probably from the mental fatigue he was
beginning to feel, he made a blunder in speaking of the
trial, and this blunder he recalled several times with
vexation. Speaking of the sentence upon a foreigner who

had been condemned in Russia, and of how unfair it
would be to punish him by exile abroad, Levin repeated
what he had heard the day before in conversation from an
acquaintance.
‘I think sending him abroad is much the same as
punishing a carp by putting it into the water,’ said Levin.
Then he recollected that this idea, which he had heard
from an acquaintance and uttered as his own, came from a
fable of Krilov’s, and that the acquaintance had picked it
up from a newspaper article.
After driving home with his sister-in-law, and finding
Kitty in good spirits and quite well, Levin drove to the
club.

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