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Anna Karenina

some iron, muttering meaningless French words, and she,
as she always did in this nightmare (it was what made the
horror of it), felt that this peasant was taking no notice of
her, but was doing something horrible with the iron—

over her. And she waked up in a cold sweat.
When she got up, the previous day came back to her as
though veiled in mist.
‘There was a quarrel. Just what has happened several
times. I said I had a headache, and he did not come in to
see me. Tomorrow we’re going away; I must see him and
get ready for the journey,’ she said to herself. And learning
that he was in his study, she went down to him. As she
passed through the drawing room she heard a carriage stop
at the entrance, and looking out of the window she saw
the carriage, from which a young girl in a lilac hat was
leaning out giving some direction to the footman ringing
the bell. After a parley in the hall, someone came upstairs,
and Vronsky’s steps could be heard passing the drawing
room. He went rapidly downstairs. Anna went again to
the window. She saw him come out onto the steps
without his hat and go up to the carriage. The young girl
in the lilac hat handed him a parcel. Vronsky, smiling, said
something to her. The carriage drove away, he ran rapidly
upstairs again.

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