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Anna Karenina

Chapter 13

There are no conditions to which a man cannot
become used, especially if he sees that all around him are
living in the same way. Levin could not have believed
three months before that he could have gone quietly to
sleep in the condition in which he was that day, that
leading an aimless irrational life, living too beyond his
means, after drinking to excess (he could not call what
happened at the club anything else), forming
inappropriately friendly relations with a man with whom
his wife had once been in love, and a still more
inappropriate call upon a woman who could only be
called a lost woman, after being fascinated by that woman
and causing his wife distress—he could still go quietly to
sleep. But under the influence of fatigue, a sleepless night,
and the wine he had drunk, his sleep was sound and
untroubled.
At five o’clock the creak of a door opening waked him.
He jumped up and looked round. Kitty was not in bed
beside him. But there was a light moving behind the
screen, and he heard her steps.

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