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Anna Karenina

found expression. And the more he worked in this cause,
the more incontestable it seemed to him that it was a cause
destined to assume vast dimensions, to create an epoch.
He threw himself heart and soul into the service of this

great cause, and forgot to think about his book. His whole
time now was engrossed by it, so that he could scarcely
manage to answer all the letters and appeals addressed to
him. He worked the whole spring and part of the summer,
and it was only in July that he prepared to go away to his
brother’s in the country.
He was going both to rest for a fortnight, and in the
very heart of the people, in the farthest wilds of the
country, to enjoy the sight of that uplifting of the spirit of
the people, of which, like all residents in the capital and
big towns, he was fully persuaded. Katavasov had long
been meaning to carry out his promise to stay with Levin,
and so he was going with him.

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