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Anna Karenina

such a state? How can he live, without making it up with
me?’ She went to the window and began looking into the
street. Judging by the time, he might be back now. But
her calculations might be wrong, and she began once

more to recall when he had started and to count the
minutes.
At the moment when she had moved away to the big
clock to compare it with her watch, someone drove up.
Glancing out of the window, she saw his carriage. But no
one came upstairs, and voices could be heard below. It
was the messenger who had come back in the carriage.
She went down to him.
‘We didn’t catch the count. The count had driven off
on the lower city road.’
‘What do you say? What!...’ she said to the rosy, good-
humored Mihail, as he handed her back her note.
‘Why, then, he has never received it!’ she thought.
‘Go with this note to Countess Vronskaya’s place, you
know? and bring an answer back immediately,’ she said to
the messenger.
‘And I, what am I going to do?’ she thought. ‘Yes, I’m
going to Dolly’s, that’s true or else I shall go out of my
mind. Yes, and I can telegraph, too.’ And she wrote a
telegram. ‘I absolutely must talk to you; come at once.’

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