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Anna Karenina

‘Why didn’t you show it to me? What secret can there
be between Stiva and me?’
Vronsky called the valet back, and told him to bring
the telegram.

‘I didn’t want to show it to you, because Stiva has such
a passion for telegraphing: why telegraph when nothing is
settled?’
‘About the divorce?’
‘Yes; but he says he has not been able to come at
anything yet. He has promised a decisive answer in a day
or two. But here it is; read it.’
With trembling hands Anna took the telegram, and
read what Vronsky had told her. At the end was added:
‘Little hope; but I will do everything possible and
impossible.’
‘I said yesterday that it’s absolutely nothing to me when
I get, or whether I never get, a divorce,’ she said, flushing
crimson. ‘There was not the slightest necessity to hide it
from me.’ ‘So he may hide and does hide his
correspondence with women from me,’ she thought.
‘Yashvin meant to come this morning with Voytov,’
said Vronsky; ‘I believe he’s won from Pyevtsov all and
more than he can pay, about sixty thousand.’

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