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Anna Karenina

Chapter 21

Dolly came out of her room to the tea of the grown-up
people. Stepan Arkadyevitch did not come out. He must
have left his wife’s room by the other door.
‘I am afraid you’ll be cold upstairs,’ observed Dolly,
addressing Anna; ‘I want to move you downstairs, and we
shall be nearer.’
‘Oh, please, don’t trouble about me,’ answered Anna,
looking intently into Dolly’s face, trying to make out
whether there had been a reconciliation or not.
‘It will be lighter for you here,’ answered her sister-in-
law.
‘I assure you that I sleep everywhere, and always like a
marmot.’
‘What’s the question?’ inquired Stepan Arkadyevitch,
coming out of his room and addressing his wife.
From his tone both Kitty and Anna knew that a
reconciliation had taken place.
‘I want to move Anna downstairs, but we must hang
up blinds. No one knows how to do it; I must see to it
myself,’ answered Dolly addressing him.

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