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Anna Karenina

‘and his mother talked without a pause of him, he’s her
favorite. I know mothers are partial, but..’
‘What did his mother tell you?’
‘Oh, a great deal! And I know that he’s her favorite;

still one can see how chivalrous he is.... Well, for instance,
she told me that he had wanted to give up all his property
to his brother, that he had done something extraordinary
when he was quite a child, saved a woman out of the
water. He’s a hero, in fact,’ said Anna, smiling and
recollecting the two hundred roubles he had given at the
station.
But she did not tell Kitty about the two hundred
roubles. For some reason it was disagreeable to her to
think of it. She felt that there was something that had to
do with her in it, and something that ought not to have
been.
‘She pressed me very much to go and see her,’ Anna
went on; ‘and I shall be glad to go to see her tomorrow.
Stiva is staying a long while in Dolly’s room, thank God,’
Anna added, changing the subject, and getting up, Kitty
fancied, displeased with something.
‘No, I’m first! No, I!’ screamed the children, who had
finished tea, running up to their Aunt Anna.

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