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Anna Karenina

intent to wound her with which it was said. ‘I know what
he meant; he meant— unnatural, not loving my own
daughter, to love another person’s child. What does he
know of love for children, of my love for Seryozha,

whom I’ve sacrificed for him? But that wish to wound
me! No, he loves another woman, it must be so.’
And perceiving that, while trying to regain her peace of
mind, she had gone round the same circle that she had
been round so often before, and had come back to her
former state of exasperation, she was horrified at herself.
‘Can it be impossible? Can it be beyond me to control
myself?’ she said to herself, and began again from the
beginning. ‘He’s truthful, he’s honest, he loves me. I love
him, and in a few days the divorce will come. What more
do I want? I want peace of mind and trust, and I will take
the blame on myself. Yes, now when he comes in, I will
tell him I was wrong, though I was not wrong, and we
will go away tomorrow.’
And to escape thinking any more, and being overcome
by irritability, she rang, and ordered the boxes to be
brought up for packing their things for the country.
At ten o’clock Vronsky came in.

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