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Anna Karenina

Soon after the arrival of the Shtcherbatskys there
appeared in the morning crowd at the springs two persons
who attracted universal and unfavorable attention. These
were a tall man with a stooping figure, and huge hands, in

an old coat too short for him, with black, simple, and yet
terrible eyes, and a pockmarked, kind-looking woman,
very badly and tastelessly dressed. Recognizing these
persons as Russians, Kitty had already in her imagination
begun constructing a delightful and touching romance
about them. But the princess, having ascertained from the
visitors’ list that this was Nikolay Levin and Marya
Nikolaevna, explained to Kitty what a bad man this Levin
was, and all her fancies about these two people vanished.
Not so much from what her mother told her, as from the
fact that it was Konstantin’s brother, this pair suddenly
seemed to Kitty intensely unpleasant. This Levin, with his
continual twitching of his head, aroused in her now an
irrepressible feeling of disgust.
It seemed to her that his big, terrible eyes, which
persistently pursued her, expressed a feeling of hatred and
contempt, and she tried to avoid meeting him.

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