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Anna Karenina

drink—delirium tremens— and the family were cast on
the world. She saw them, helped them, got more and
more interested in them, and now the whole family is on
her hands. But not by way of patronage, you know,

helping with money; she’s herself preparing the boys in
Russian for the high school, and she’s taken the little girl
to live with her. But you’ll see her for yourself.’
The carriage drove into the courtyard, and Stepan
Arkadyevitch rang loudly at the entrance where sledges
were standing.
And without asking the servant who opened the door
whether the lady were at home, Stepan Arkadyevitch
walked into the hall. Levin followed him, more and more
doubtful whether he was doing right or wrong.
Looking at himself in the glass, Levin noticed that he
was red in the face, but he felt certain he was not drunk,
and he followed Stepan Arkadyevitch up the carpeted
stairs. At the top Stepan Arkadyevitch inquired of the
footman, who bowed to him as to an intimate friend, who
was with Anna Arkadyevna, and received the answer that
it was M. Vorkuev.
‘Where are they?’
‘In the study.’

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