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Anna Karenina

Chapter 2

Sergey Ivanovitch and Katavasov had only just reached
the station of the Kursk line, which was particularly busy
and full of people that day, when, looking round for the
groom who was following with their things, they saw a
party of volunteers driving up in four cabs. Ladies met
them with bouquets of flowers, and followed by the
rushing crowd they went into the station.
One of the ladies, who had met the volunteers, came
out of the hall and addressed Sergey Ivanovitch.
‘You too come to see them off?’ she asked in French.
‘No, I’m going away myself, princess. To my brother’s
for a holiday. Do you always see them of?’ said Sergey
Ivanovitch with a hardly perceptible smile.
‘Oh, that would be impossible!’ answered the princess.
‘Is it true that eight hundred have been sent from us
already? Malvinsky wouldn’t believe me.’
‘More than eight hundred. If you reckon those who
have been sent not directly from Moscow, over a
thousand,’ answered Sergey Ivanovitch.

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