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Anna Karenina

spoke so simply and so well, that everyone listened
eagerly.
Kitty was the only one who did not hear it all—she was
summoned to give Mitya his bath.

A few minutes after Kitty had left the room she sent for
Levin to come to the nursery.
Leaving his tea, and regretfully interrupting the
interesting conversation, and at the same time uneasily
wondering why he had been sent for, as this only
happened on important occasions, Levin went to the
nursery.
Although he had been much interested by Sergey
Ivanovitch’s views of the new epoch in history that would
be created by the emancipation of forty millions of men of
Slavonic race acting with Russia, a conception quite new
to him, and although he was disturbed by uneasy wonder
at being sent for by Kitty, as soon as he came out of the
drawing room and was alone, his mind reverted at once to
the thoughts of the morning. And all the theories of the
significance of the Slav element in the history of the world
seemed to him so trivial compared with what was passing
in his own soul, that he instantly forgot it all and dropped
back into the same frame of mind that he been in that
morning.

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