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Anna Karenina

‘Stiva urged me awfully to go and see Anna
Arkadyevna.’
And as he said this, Levin blushed even more, and his
doubts as to whether he had done right in going to see

Anna were settled once for all. He knew now that he
ought not to have done so.
Kitty’s eyes opened in a curious way and gleamed at
Anna’s name, but controlling herself with an effort, she
concealed her emotion and deceived him.
‘Oh!’ was all she said.
‘I’m sure you won’t be angry at my going. Stiva begged
me to, and Dolly wished it,’ Levin went on.
‘Oh, no!’ she said, but he saw in her eyes a constraint
that boded him no good.
‘She is a very sweet, very, very unhappy, good
woman,’ he said, telling her about Anna, her occupations,
and what she had told him to say to her.
‘Yes, of course, she is very much to be pitied,’ said
Kitty, when he had finished. ‘Whom was your letter
from?’
He told her, and believing in her calm tone, he went to
change his coat.

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