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Anna Karenina

‘Oh, you haven’t gone in then?’ he heard Kitty’s voice
all at once, as she came by the same way to the drawing-
room.
‘What is it? you’re not worried about anything?’ she

said, looking intently at his face in the starlight.
But she could not have seen his face if a flash of
lightning had not hidden the stars and revealed it. In that
flash she saw his face distinctly, and seeing him calm and
happy, she smiled at him.
‘She understands,’ he thought; ‘she knows what I’m
thinking about. Shall I tell her or not? Yes, I’ll tell her.’
But at the moment he was about to speak, she began
speaking.
‘Kostya! do something for me,’ she said; ‘go into the
corner room and see if they’ve made it all right for Sergey
Ivanovitch. I can’t very well. See if they’ve put the new
wash stand in it.’
‘Very well, I’ll go directly,’ said Levin, standing up and
kissing her.
‘No, I’d better not speak of it,’ he thought, when she
had gone in before him. ‘It is a secret for me alone, of vital
importance for me, and not to be put into words.
‘This new feeling has not changed me, has not made
me happy and enlightened all of a sudden, as I had

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