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Anna Karenina

Trying not to make a noise, they walked into the dark
reading room, where under the shaded lamps there sat a
young man with a wrathful countenance, turning over
one journal after another, and a bald general buried in a

book. They went, too, into what the prince called the
intellectual room, where three gentlemen were engaged in
a heated discussion of the latest political news.
‘Prince, please come, we’re ready,’ said one of his card
party, who had come to look for him, and the prince went
off. Levin sat down and listened, but recalling all the
conversation of the morning he felt all of a sudden
fearfully bored. He got up hurriedly, and went to look for
Oblonsky and Turovtsin, with whom it had been so
pleasant.
Turovtsin was one of the circle drinking in the billiard
room, and Stepan Arkadyevitch was talking with Vronsky
near the door at the farther corner of the room.
‘It’s not that she’s dull; but this undefined, this
unsettled position,’ Levin caught, and he was hurrying
away, but Stepan Arkadyevitch called to him.
‘Levied’ said Stepan Arkadyevitch, and Levin noticed
that his eyes were not full of tears exactly, but moist,
which always happened when he had been drinking, or
when he was touched. Just now it was due to both causes.

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