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Anna Karenina

‘I had imagined,’ answered Alexey Alexandrovitch in a
higher, almost shrill voice, ‘that Anna Arkadyevna had
everything she had desired for herself.’
‘Oh, Alexey Alexandrovitch, for heaven’s sake, don’t

let us indulge in recriminations! What is past is past, and
you know what she wants and is waiting for—divorce.’
‘But I believe Anna Arkadyevna refuses a divorce, if I
make it a condition to leave me my son. I replied in that
sense, and supposed that the matter was ended. I consider
it at an end,’ shrieked Alexey Alexandrovitch.
‘But, for heaven’s sake, don’t get hot!’ said Stepan
Arkadyevitch, touching his brother-in-law’s knee. ‘The
matter is not ended. If you will allow me to recapitulate, it
was like this: when you parted, you were as magnanimous
as could possibly be; you were ready to give her
everything—freedom, divorce even. She appreciated that.
No, don’t think that. She did appreciate it—to such a
degree that at the first moment, feeling how she had
wronged you, she did not consider and could not consider
everything. She gave up everything. But experience, time,
have shown that her position is unbearable, impossible.’
‘The life of Anna Arkadyevna can have no interest for
me,’ Alexey Alexandrovitch put in, lifting his eyebrows.

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