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Anna Karenina

are you attacking? Though a good deal is not true that you
say about Vronsky, but I won’t talk about that. I tell you
straight out, if I were you, I should go back with me to
Moscow, and..’

‘No; I don’t know whether you know it or not, but I
don’t care. And I tell you—I did make an offer and was
rejected, and Katerina Alexandrovna is nothing now to me
but a painful and humiliating reminiscence.’
‘What ever for? What nonsense!’
‘But we won’t talk about it. Please forgive me, if I’ve
been nasty,’ said Levin. Now that he had opened his heart,
he became as he had been in the morning. ‘You’re not
angry with me, Stiva? Please don’t be angry,’ he said, and
smiling, he took his hand.
‘Of course not; not a bit, and no reason to be. I’m glad
we’ve spoken openly. And do you know, stand-shooting
in the morning is unusually good—why not go? I couldn’t
sleep the night anyway, but I might go straight from
shooting to the station.’
‘Capital.’

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