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Anna Karenina

brilliant eyes and long hair lying on the collar of his coat,
was standing at the end of the room gazing at the portraits
on the wall. After greeting the lady of the house and
Alexey Alexandrovitch, Stepan Arkadyevitch could not

resist glancing once more at the unknown man.
‘Monsieur Landau!’ the countess addressed him with a
softness and caution that impressed Oblonsky. And she
introduced them.
Landau looked round hurriedly, came up, and smiling,
laid his moist, lifeless hand in Stepan Arkadyevitch’s
outstretched hand and immediately walked away and fell
to gazing at the portraits again. The countess and Alexey
Alexandrovitch looked at each other significantly.
‘I am very glad to see you, particularly today,’ said
Countess Lidia Ivanovna, pointing Stepan Arkadyevitch to
a seat beside Karenin.
‘I introduced you to him as Landau,’ she said in a soft
voice, glancing at the Frenchman and again immediately
after at Alexey Alexandrovitch, ‘but he is really Count
Bezzubov, as you’re probably aware. Only he does not
like the title.’
‘Yes, I heard so,’ answered Stepan Arkadyevitch; ‘they
say he completely cured Countess Bezzubova.’

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