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Anna Karenina

And he, an unbeliever, repeated these words not with his
lips only. At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even
the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he
was aware in himself, did not in the least hinder his

turning to God. All of that now floated out of his soul like
dust. To whom was he to turn if not to Him in whose
hands he felt himself, his soul, and his love?
The horse was not yet ready, but feeling a peculiar
concentration of his physical forces and his intellect on
what he had to do, he started off on foot without waiting
for the horse, and told Kouzma to overtake him.
At the corner he met a night cabman driving hurriedly.
In the little sledge, wrapped in a velvet cloak, sat Lizaveta
Petrovna with a kerchief round her head. ‘Thank God!
thank God!’ he said, overjoyed to recognize her little fair
face which wore a peculiarly serious, even stern
expression. Telling the driver not to stop, he ran along
beside her.
‘For two hours, then? Not more?’ she inquired. ‘You
should let Pyotr Dmitrievitch know, but don’t hurry him.
And get some opium at the chemist’s.’
‘So you think that it may go on well? Lord have mercy
on us and help us!’ Levin said, seeing his own horse

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