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Anna Karenina

‘quite the thing’ in the tender sympathy he was feeling for
Anna.
Levin found his wife low-spirited and dull. The dinner
of the three sisters had gone off very well, but then they

had waited and waited for him, all of them had felt dull,
the sisters had departed, and she had been left alone.
‘Well, and what have you been doing?’ she asked him,
looking straight into his eyes, which shone with rather a
suspicious brightness. But that she might not prevent his
telling her everything, she concealed her close scrutiny of
him, and with an approving smile listened to his account
of how he had spent the evening.
‘Well, I’m very glad I met Vronsky. I felt quite at ease
and natural with him. You understand, I shall try not to
see him, but I’m glad that this awkwardness is all over,’ he
said, and remembering that by way of trying not to see
him, he had immediately gone to call on Anna, he
blushed. ‘We talk about the peasants drinking; I don’t
know which drinks most, the peasantry or our own class;
the peasants do on holidays, but..’
But Kitty took not the slightest interest in discussing
the drinking habits of the peasants. She saw that he
blushed, and she wanted to know why.
‘Well, and then where did you go?’

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