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Anna Karenina

The mists that had shrouded everything in her soul
parted suddenly. The feelings of yesterday pierced the sick
heart with a fresh pang. She could not understand now
how she could have lowered herself by spending a whole

day with him in his house. she went into his room to
announce her determination.
‘That was Madame Sorokina and her daughter. They
came and brought me the money and the deeds from
maman. I couldn’t get them yesterday. How is your head,
better?’ he said quietly, not wishing to see and to
understand the gloomy and solemn expression of her face.
She looked silently, intently at him, standing in the
middle of the room. He glanced at her, frowned for a
moment, and went on reading a letter. She turned, and
went deliberately out of the room. He still might have
turned her back, but she had reached the door, he was still
silent, and the only sound audible was the rustling of the
note paper as he turned it.
‘Oh, by the way,’ he said at the very moment she was
in the doorway, ‘we’re going tomorrow for certain, aren’t
we?’
‘You, but not I,’ she said, turning round to him.
‘Anna, we can’t go on like this..’
‘You, but not I,’ she repeated.

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