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Anna Karenina

‘This is getting unbearable!’
‘You...you will be sorry for this,’ she said, and went
out.
Frightened by the desperate expression with which

these words were uttered, he jumped up and would have
run after her, but on second thoughts he sat down and
scowled, setting his teeth. This vulgar—as he thought it—
threat of something vague exasperated him. ‘I’ve tried
everything,’ he thought; ‘the only thing left is not to pay
attention,’ and he began to get ready to drive into town,
and again to his mother’s to get her signature to the deeds.
She heard the sound of his steps about the study and
the dining room. At the drawing room he stood still. But
he did not turn in to see her, he merely gave an order that
the horse should be given to Voytov if he came while he
was away. Then she heard the carriage brought round, the
door opened, and he came out again. But he went back
into the porch again, and someone was running upstairs. It
was the valet running up for his gloves that had been
forgotten. She went to the window and saw him take the
gloves without looking, and touching the coachman on
the back he said something to him. Then without looking
up at the window he settled himself in his usual attitude in

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