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Anna Karenina

Coming back, he found Kitty in the same easy chair.
When he went up to her, she glanced at him and broke
into sobs.
‘What? what is it?’ he asked, knowing beforehand

what.
‘You’re in love with that hateful woman; she has
bewitched you! I saw it in your eyes. Yes, yes! What can it
all lead to? You were drinking at the club, drinking and
gambling, and then you went...to her of all people! No,
we must go away.... I shall go away tomorrow.’
It was a long while before Levin could soothe his wife.
At last he succeeded in calming her, only by confessing
that a feeling of pity, in conjunction with the wine he had
drunk, had been too much for him, that he had
succumbed to Anna’s artful influence, and that he would
avoid her. One thing he did with more sincerity confess to
was that living so long in Moscow, a life of nothing but
conversation, eating and drinking, he was degenerating.
They talked till three o’clock in the morning. Only at
three o’clock were they sufficiently reconciled to be able
to go to sleep.

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