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Anna Karenina

‘All right; they are dining at home, all the three of
them.’
‘Ah, ‘Aline-Nadine,’ to be sure! There’s no room with
us. Go to that table, and make haste and take a seat,’ said

the prince, and turning away he carefully took a plate of
eel soup.
‘Levin, this way!’ a good-natured voice shouted a little
farther on. It was Turovtsin. He was sitting with a young
officer, and beside them were two chairs turned upside
down. Levin gladly went up to them. He had always liked
the good-hearted rake, Turovtsin—he was associated in
his mind with memories of his courtship—and at that
moment, after the strain of intellectual conversation, the
sight of Turovtsin’s good-natured face was particularly
welcome.
‘For you and Oblonsky. He’ll be here directly.’
The young man, holding himself very erect, with eyes
forever twinkling with enjoyment, was an officer from
Petersburg, Gagin. Turovtsin introduced them.
‘Oblonsky’s always late.’
‘Ah, here he is!’
‘Have you only just come?’ said Oblonsky, coming
quickly towards them. ‘Good day. Had some vodka? Well,
come along then.’

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