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Anna Karenina

Chapter 29

Anna got into the carriage again in an even worse
frame of mind than when she set out from home. To her
previous tortures was added now that sense of
mortification and of being an outcast which she had felt so
distinctly on meeting Kitty.
‘Where to? Home?’ asked Pyotr.
‘Yes, home,’ she said, not even thinking now where
she was going.
‘How they looked at me as something dreadful,
incomprehensible, and curious! What can he be telling the
other with such warmth?’ she thought, staring at two men
who walked by. ‘Can one ever tell anyone what one is
feeling? I meant to tell Dolly, and it’s a good thing I didn’t
tell her. How pleased she would have been at my misery!
She would have concealed it, but her chief feeling would
have been delight at my being punished for the happiness
she envied me for. Kitty, she would have been even more
pleased. How I can see through her! She knows I was
more than usually sweet to her husband. And she’s jealous
and hates me. And she despises me. In her eyes I’m an
immoral woman. If I were an immoral woman I could

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