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Anna Karenina

jealousy tortured her most of all, especially as he had
unwarily told her, in a moment of frankness, that his
mother knew him so little that she had had the audacity to
try and persuade him to marry the young Princess

Sorokina.
And being jealous of him, Anna was indignant against
him and found grounds for indignation in everything. For
everything that was difficult in her position she blamed
him. The agonizing condition of suspense she had passed
in Moscow, the tardiness and indecision of Alexey
Alexandrovitch, her solitude—she put it all down to him.
If he had loved her he would have seen all the bitterness of
her position, and would have rescued her from it. For her
being in Moscow and not in the country, he was to blame
too. He could not live buried in the country as she would
have liked to do. He must have society, and he had put
her in this awful position, the bitterness of which he
would not see. And again, it was his fault that she was
forever separated from her son.
Even the rare moments of tenderness that came from
time to time did not soothe her; in his tenderness now she
saw a shade of complacency, of self-confidence, which had
not been of old and which exasperated her.

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