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Anna Karenina

Chapter 34

Before the end of the course of drinking the waters,
Prince Shtcherbatsky, who had gone on from Carlsbad to
Baden and Kissingen to Russian friends—to get a breath
of Russian air, as he said—came back to his wife and
daughter.
The views of the prince and of the princess on life
abroad were completely opposed. The princess thought
everything delightful, and in spite of her established
position in Russian society, she tried abroad to be like a
European fashionable lady, which she was not—for the
simple reason that she was a typical Russian gentlewoman;
and so she was affected, which did not altogether suit her.
The prince, on the contrary, thought everything foreign
detestable, got sick of European life, kept to his Russian
habits, and purposely tried to show himself abroad less
European than he was in reality.
The prince returned thinner, with the skin hanging in
loose bags on his cheeks, but in the most cheerful frame of
mind. His good humor was even greater when he saw
Kitty completely recovered. The news of Kitty’s friendship
with Madame Stahl and Varenka, and the reports the

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