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Anna Karenina

Chapter 19

Stepan Arkadyevitch was about to go away when
Korney came in to announce:
‘Sergey Alexyevitch!’
‘Who’s Sergey Alexyevitch?’ Stepan Arkadyevitch was
beginning, but he remembered immediately.
‘Ah, Seryozha!’ he said aloud. ‘Sergey Alexeitch! I
thought it was the director of a department. Anna asked
me to see him too,’ he thought.
And he recalled the timid, piteous expression with
which Anna had said to him at parting: ‘Anyway, you will
see him. Find out exactly where he is, who is looking after
him. And Stiva...if it were possible! Could it be possible?’
Stepan Arkadyevitch knew what was meant by that ‘if it
were possible,’—if it were possible to arrange the divorce
so as to let her have her son.... Stepan Arkadyevitch saw
now that it was no good to dream of that, but still he was
glad to see his nephew.
Alexey Alexandrovitch reminded his brother-in-law
that they never spoke to the boy of his mother, and he
begged him not to mention a single word about her.

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