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Anna Karenina

Chapter 6

Sergey Ivanovitch had not telegraphed to his brother to
send to meet him, as he did not know when he should be
able to leave Moscow. Levin was not at home when
Katavasov and Sergey Ivanovitch in a fly hired at the
station drove up to the steps of the Pokrovskoe house, as
black as Moors from the dust of the road. Kitty, sitting on
the balcony with her father and sister, recognized her
brother-in-law, and ran down to meet him.
‘What a shame not to have let us know,’ she said,
giving her hand to Sergey Ivanovitch, and putting her
forehead up for him to kiss.
‘We drove here capitally, and have not put you out,’
answered Sergey Ivanovitch. ‘I’m so dirty. I’m afraid to
touch you. I’ve been so busy, I didn’t know when I
should be able to tear myself away. And so you’re still as
ever enjoying your peaceful, quiet happiness,’ he said,
smiling, ‘out of the reach of the current in your peaceful
backwater. Here’s our friend Fyodor Vassilievitch who has
succeeded in getting here at last.’
‘But I’m not a negro, I shall look like a human being
when I wash,’ said Katavasov in his jesting fashion, and he

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