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Anna Karenina

there, but Dolly was. Then Levin remembered he had
been sent somewhere. Once he had been sent to move a
table and sofa. He had done this eagerly, thinking it had to
be done for her sake, and only later on he found it was his

own bed he had been getting ready. Then he had been
sent to the study to ask the doctor something. The doctor
had answered and then had said something about the
irregularities in the municipal council. Then he had been
sent to the bedroom to help the old princess to move the
holy picture in its silver and gold setting, and with the
princess’s old waiting maid he had clambered on a shelf to
reach it and had broken the little lamp, and the old servant
had tried to reassure him about the lamp and about his
wife, and he carried the holy picture and set it at Kitty’s
head, carefully tucking it in behind the pillow. But where,
when, and why all this had happened, he could not tell.
He did not understand why the old princess took his hand,
and looking compassionately at him, begged him not to
worry himself, and Dolly persuaded him to eat something
and led him out of the room, and even the doctor looked
seriously and with commiseration at him and offered him a
drop of something.
All he knew and felt was that what was happening was
what had happened nearly a year before in the hotel of the

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