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Anna Karenina

‘But didn’t he only yesterday swear he loved me, he, a
truthful and sincere man? Haven’t I despaired for nothing
many times already?’ she said to herself afterwards.
All that day, except for the visit to Wilson’s, which

occupied two hours, Anna spent in doubts whether
everything were over or whether there were still hope of
reconciliation, whether she should go away at once or see
him once more. She was expecting him the whole day,
and in the evening, as she went to her own room, leaving
a message for him that her head ached, she said to herself,
‘If he comes in spite of what the maid says, it means that
he loves me still. If not, it means that all is over, and then I
will decide what I’m to do!..’
In the evening she heard the rumbling of his carriage
stop at the entrance, his ring, his steps and his conversation
with the servant; he believed what was told him, did not
care to find out more, and went to his own room. So then
everything was over.
And death rose clearly and vividly before her mind as
the sole means of bringing back love for her in his heart,
of punishing him and of gaining the victory in that strife
which the evil spirit in possession of her heart was waging
with him.

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