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Anna Karenina

Chapter 28

After the ball, early next morning, Anna Arkadyevna
sent her husband a telegram that she was leaving Moscow
the same day.
‘No, I must go, I must go"; she explained to her sister-
in-law the change in her plans in a tone that suggested that
she had to remember so many things that there was no
enumerating them: ‘no, it had really better be today!’
Stepan Arkadyevitch was not dining at home, but he
promised to come and see his sister off at seven o’clock.
Kitty, too, did not come, sending a note that she had a
headache. Dolly and Anna dined alone with the children
and the English governess. Whether it was that the
children were fickle, or that they had acute senses, and felt
that Anna was quite different that day from what she had
been when they had taken such a fancy to her, that she
was not now interested in them,—but they had abruptly
dropped their play with their aunt, and their love for her,
and were quite indifferent that she was going away. Anna
was absorbed the whole morning in preparations for her
departure. She wrote notes to her Moscow acquaintances,
put down her accounts, and packed. Altogether Dolly

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