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Anna Karenina

and heard Kitty giving exact directions to the maid, and
beginning to help her move the bedstead.
He dressed, and while they were putting in his horses,
as a hired sledge was not to be seen yet, he ran again up to

the bedroom, not on tiptoe, it seemed to him, but on
wings. Two maid-servants were carefully moving
something in the bedroom.
Kitty was walking about knitting rapidly and giving
directions.
‘I’m going for the doctor. They have sent for Lizaveta
Petrovna, but I’ll go on there too. Isn’t there anything
wanted? Yes, shall I go to Dolly’s?’
She looked at him, obviously not hearing what he was
saying.
‘Yes, yes. Do go,’ she said quickly, frowning and
waving her hand to him.
He had just gone into the drawing room, when
suddenly a plaintive moan sounded from the bedroom,
smothered instantly. He stood still, and for a long while he
could not understand.
‘Yes, that is she,’ he said to himself, and clutching at his
head he ran downstairs.
‘Lord have mercy on us! pardon us! aid us!’ he repeated
the words that for some reason came suddenly to his lips.

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