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Anna Karenina

Chapter 29

Everyone was loudly expressing disapprobation,
everyone was repeating a phrase some one had uttered—
‘The lions and gladiators will be the next thing,’ and
everyone was feeling horrified; so that when Vronsky fell
to the ground, and Anna moaned aloud, there was nothing
very out of the way in it. But afterwards a change came
over Anna’s face which really was beyond decorum. She
utterly lost her head. She began fluttering like a caged
bird, at one moment would have got up and moved away,
at the next turned to Betsy.
‘Let us go, let us go!’ she said.
But Betsy did not hear her. She was bending down,
talking to a general who had come up to her.
Alexey Alexandrovitch went up to Anna and
courteously offered her his arm.
‘Let us go, if you like,’ he said in French, but Anna was
listening to the general and did not notice her husband.
‘He’s broken his leg too, so they say,’ the general was
saying. ‘This is beyond everything.’
Without answering her husband, Anna lifted her opera
glass and gazed towards the place where Vronsky had

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