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Anna Karenina

‘Oh, yes, that is most...’ said Stepan Arkadyevitch, glad
they were going to read, and let him have a chance to
collect his faculties. ‘No, I see I’d better not ask her about
anything today,’ he thought. ‘If only I can get out of this

without putting my foot in it!’
‘It will be dull for you,’ said Countess Lidia Ivanovna,
addressing Landau; ‘you don’t know English, but it’s
short.’
‘Oh, I shall understand,’ said Landau, with the same
smile, and he closed his eyes. Alexey Alexandrovitch and
Lidia Ivanovna exchanged meaningful glances, and the
reading began.

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