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Anna Karenina

Chapter 10

She had risen to meet him, not concealing her pleasure
at seeing him; and in the quiet ease with which she held
out her little vigorous hand, introduced him to Vorkuev
and indicated a red-haired, pretty little girl who was sitting
at work, calling her her pupil, Levin recognized and liked
the manners of a woman of the great world, always self-
possessed and natural.
‘I am delighted, delighted,’ she repeated, and on her
lips these simple words took for Levin’s ears a special
significance. ‘I have known you and liked you for a long
while, both from your friendship with Stiva and for your
wife’s sake.... I knew her for a very short time, but she left
on me the impression of an exquisite flower, simply a
flower. And to think she will soon be a mother!’
She spoke easily and without haste, looking now and
then from Levin to her brother, and Levin felt that the
impression he was making was good, and he felt
immediately at home, simple and happy with her, as
though he had known her from childhood.
‘Ivan Petrovitch and I settled in Alexey’s study,’ she
said in answer to Stepan Arkadyevitch’s question whether

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