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Anna Karenina

Chapter 30

The raging tempest rushed whistling between the
wheels of the carriages, about the scaffolding, and round
the corner of the station. The carriages, posts, people,
everything that was to be seen was covered with snow on
one side, and was getting more and more thickly covered.
For a moment there would come a lull in the storm, but
then it would swoop down again with such onslaughts
that it seemed impossible to stand against it. Meanwhile
men ran to and fro, talking merrily together, their steps
crackling on the platform as they continually opened and
closed the big doors. The bent shadow of a man glided by
at her feet, and she heard sounds of a hammer upon iron.
‘Hand over that telegram!’ came an angry voice out of the
stormy darkness on the other side. ‘This way! No. 28!’
several different voices shouted again, and muffled figures
ran by covered with snow. Two gentleman with lighted
cigarettes passed by her. She drew one more deep breath
of the fresh air, and had just put he hand out of her muff
to take hold of the door post and get back into the
carriage, when another man in a military overcoat, quite
close beside her, stepped between her and the flickering

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