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Anna Karenina

could have felt no doubt. I always disliked him, and so it
has turned out.’
Levin recalled Kitty’s answer. She had said: ‘No, that
cannot be..’

‘Darya Alexandrovna,’ he said dryly, ‘I appreciate your
confidence in me; I believe you are making a mistake. But
whether I am right or wrong, that pride you so despise
makes any thought of Katerina Alexandrovna out of the
question for me,— you understand, utterly out of the
question.’
‘I will only say one thing more: you know that I am
speaking of my sister, whom I love as I love my own
children. I don’t say she cared for you, all I meant to say is
that her refusal at that moment proves nothing.’
‘I don’t know!’ said Levin, jumping up. ‘If you only
knew how you are hurting me. It’s just as if a child of
yours were dead, and they were to say to you: He would
have been like this and like that, and he might have lived,
and how happy you would have been in him. But he’s
dead, dead, dead!..’
‘How absurd you are!’ said Darya Alexandrovna,
looking with mournful tenderness at Levin’s excitement.
‘Yes, I see it all more and more clearly,’ she went on

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