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Anna Karenina

triumph and meaning, when he found her again and gave
her the letter.
‘I had heard he was going, but I did not know when.
By this train?’

‘I’ve seen him. He’s here: there’s only his mother
seeing him off. It’s the best thing, anyway, that he could
do.’
‘Oh, yes, of course.’
While they were talking the crowd streamed by them
into the dining room. They went forward too, and heard a
gentleman with a glass in his hand delivering a loud
discourse to the volunteers. ‘In the service of religion,
humanity, and our brothers,’ the gentleman said, his voice
growing louder and louder; ‘to this great cause mother
Moscow dedicates you with her blessing. Jivio!’ he
concluded, loudly and tearfully.
Everyone shouted Jivio! and a fresh crowd dashed into
the hall, almost carrying the princess off her legs.
‘Ah, princess! that was something like!’ said Stepan
Arkadyevitch, suddenly appearing in the middle of the
crowd and beaming upon them with a delighted smile.
‘Capitally, warmly said, wasn’t it? Bravo! And Sergey
Ivanovitch! Why, you ought to have said something—just
a few words, you know, to encourage them; you do that

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