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Anna Karenina

Yury Meledinsky—you know, the invalid?—heard of this
Landau, and had him to see her husband. And he cured
her husband, though I can’t say that I see he did him
much good, for he’s just as feeble a creature as ever he

was, but they believed in him, and took him along with
them and brought him to Russia. Here there’s been a
general rush to him, and he’s begun doctoring everyone.
He cured Countess Bezzubova, and she took such a fancy
to him that she adopted him.’
‘Adopted him?’
‘Yes, as her son. He’s not Landau any more now, but
Count Bezzubov. That’s neither here nor there, though;
but Lidia—I’m very fond of her, but she has a screw loose
somewhere—has lost her heart to this Landau now, and
nothing is settled now in her house or Alexey
Alexandrovitch’s without him, and so your sister’s fate is
now in the hands of Landau, alias Count Bezzubov.’

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