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Anna Karenina

‘Oh, well, but that’s of no interest to anyone,’ she said,
and she turned to the English girl.
‘Please order the tea in the drawing room,’ she said in
English.

The girl got up and went out.
‘Well, how did she get through her examination?’
asked Stepan Arkadyevitch.
‘Splendidly! She’s a very gifted child and a sweet
character.’
‘It will end in your loving her more than your own.’
‘There a man speaks. In love there’s no more nor less. I
love my daughter with one love, and her with another.’
‘I was just telling Anna Arkadyevna,’ said Vorkuev,
‘that if she were to put a hundredth part of the energy she
devotes to this English girl to the public question of the
education of Russian children, she would be doing a great
and useful work.’
‘Yes, but I can’t help it; I couldn’t do it. Count Alexey
Kirillovitch urged me very much’ (as she uttered the
words Count Alexey Kirillovitch she glanced with
appealing timidity at Levin, and he unconsciously
responded with a respectful and reassuring look); ‘he urged
me to take up the school in the village. I visited it several
times. The children were very nice, but I could not feel

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