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Anna Karenina

Chapter 4

While the train was stopping at the provincial town,
Sergey Ivanovitch did not go to the refreshment room,
but walked up and down the platform.
The first time he passed Vronsky’s compartment he
noticed that the curtain was drawn over the window; but
as he passed it the second time he saw the old countess at
the window. She beckoned to Koznishev.
‘I’m going, you see, taking him as far as Kursk,’ she
said.
‘Yes, so I heard,’ said Sergey Ivanovitch, standing at her
window and peeping in. ‘What a noble act on his part!’ he
added, noticing that Vronsky was not in the compartment.
‘Yes, after his misfortune, what was there for him to
do?’
‘What a terrible thing it was!’ said Sergey Ivanovitch.
‘Ah, what I have been through! But do get in.... Ah,
what I have been through!’ she repeated, when Sergey
Ivanovitch had got in and sat down beside her. ‘You can’t
conceive it! For six weeks he did not speak to anyone, and
would not touch food except when I implored him. And
not for one minute could we leave him alone. We took

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