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Anna Karenina

Chapter 11

‘What a marvelous, sweet and unhappy woman!’ he
was thinking, as he stepped out into the frosty air with
Stepan Arkadyevitch.
‘Well, didn’t I tell you?’ said Stepan Arkadyevitch,
seeing that Levin had been completely won over.
‘Yes,’ said Levin dreamily, ‘an extraordinary woman!
It’s not her cleverness, but she has such wonderful depth
of feeling. I’m awfully sorry for her!’
‘Now, please God everything will soon be settled.
Well, well, don’t be hard on people in future,’ said Stepan
Arkadyevitch, opening the carriage door. ‘Good-bye; we
don’t go the same way.’
Still thinking of Anna, of everything, even the simplest
phrase in their conversation with her, and recalling the
minutest changes in her expression, entering more and
more into her position, and feeling sympathy for her,
Levin reached home.
At home Kouzma told Levin that Katerina
Alexandrovna was quite well, and that her sisters had not
long been gone, and he handed him two letters. Levin
read them at once in the hall, that he might not over look

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