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Anna Karenina

knowing I should meet you. I have come to tell you that
this must end. I have never blushed before anyone, and
you force me to feel to blame for something.’
He looked at her and was struck by a new spiritual

beauty in her face.
‘What do you wish of me?’ he said simply and
seriously.
‘I want you to go to Moscow and ask for Kitty’s
forgiveness,’ she said.
‘You don’t wish that?’ he said.
He saw she was saying what she forced herself to say,
not what she wanted to say.
‘If you love me, as you say,’ she whispered, ‘do so that
I may be at peace.’
His face grew radiant.
‘Don’t you know that you’re all my life to me? But I
know no peace, and I can’t give to you; all myself—and
love...yes. I can’t think of you and myself apart. You and I
are one to me. And I see no chance before us of peace for
me or for you. I see a chance of despair, of
wretchedness...or I see a chance of bliss, what bliss!... Can
it be there’s no chance of it?’ he murmured with his lips;
but she heard.

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