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Anna Karenina

husband’s shamefaced embarrassment, his repeated
awkward efforts to approach the subject, and how at last,
having thought of the one means of helping Dolly without
wounding her pride, he had suggested to Kitty—what had

not occurred to her before—that she should give up her
share of the property.
‘He an unbeliever indeed! With his heart, his dread of
offending anyone, even a child! Everything for others,
nothing for himself. Sergey Ivanovitch simply considers it
as Kostya’s duty to be his steward. And it’s the same with
his sister. Now Dolly and her children are under his
guardianship; all these peasants who come to him every
day, as though he were bound to be at their service.’
‘Yes, only be like your father, only like him,’ she said,
handing Mitya over to the nurse, and putting her lips to
his cheek.

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