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Anna Karenina

Chapter 10

‘Kitty writes to me that there’s nothing she longs for so
much as quiet and solitude,’ Dolly said after the silence
that had followed.
‘And how is she—better?’ Levin asked in agitation.
‘Thank God, she’s quite well again. I never believed
her lungs were affected.’
‘Oh, I’m very glad!’ said Levin, and Dolly fancied she
saw something touching, helpless, in his face as he said this
and looked silently into her face.
‘Let me ask you, Konstantin Dmitrievitch,’ said Darya
Alexandrovna, smiling her kindly and rather mocking
smile, ‘why is it you are angry with Kitty?’
‘I? I’m not angry with her,’ said Levin.
‘Yes, you are angry. Why was it you did not come to
see us nor them when you were in Moscow?’
‘Darya Alexandrovna,’ he said, blushing up to the roots
of his hair, ‘I wonder really that with your kind heart you
don’t feel this. How it is you feel no pity for me, if
nothing else, when you know..’
‘What do I know?’

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