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Anna Karenina

Chapter 12

After taking leave of her guests, Anna did not sit down,
but began walking up and down the room. She had
unconsciously the whole evening done her utmost to
arouse in Levin a feeling of love—as of late she had fallen
into doing with all young men— and she knew she had
attained her aim, as far as was possible in one evening,
with a married and conscientious man. She liked him
indeed extremely, and, in spite of the striking difference,
from the masculine point of view, between Vronsky and
Levin, as a woman she saw something they had in
common, which had made Kitty able to love both. Yet as
soon as he was out of the room, she ceased to think of
him.
One thought, and one only, pursued her in different
forms, and refused to be shaken off. ‘If I have so much
effect on others, on this man, who loves his home and his
wife, why is it he is so cold to me?...not cold exactly, he
loves me, I know that! But something new is drawing us
apart now. Why wasn’t he here all the evening? He told
Stiva to say he could not leave Yashvin, and must watch
over his play. Is Yashvin a child? But supposing it’s true.

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