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Anna Karenina

stricken house. For a long while he chatted and joked
with his cab-driver, trying to recover his spirits.
At the French theater where he arrived for the last act,
and afterwards at the Tatar restaurant after his champagne,

Stepan Arkadyevitch felt a little refreshed in the
atmosphere he was used to. But still he felt quite unlike
himself all that evening.
On getting home to Pyotr Oblonsky’s, where he was
staying, Stepan Arkadyevitch found a note from Betsy. She
wrote to him that she was very anxious to finish their
interrupted conversation, and begged him to come next
day. He had scarcely read this note, and frowned at its
contents, when he heard below the ponderous tramp of
the servants, carrying something heavy.
Stepan Arkadyevitch went out to look. It was the
rejuvenated Pyotr Oblonsky. He was so drunk that he
could not walk upstairs; but he told them to set him on his
legs when he saw Stepan Arkadyevitch, and clinging to
him, walked with him into his room and there began
telling him how he had spent the evening, and fell asleep
doing so.
Stepan Arkadyevitch was in very low spirits, which
happened rarely with him, and for a long while he could
not go to sleep. Everything he could recall to his mind,

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