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Anna Karenina

inner life, that was remote from Levin, she was gazing
beyond him at the glow of the sunrise.
At the very instant when this apparition was vanishing,
the truthful eyes glanced at him. She recognized him, and

her face lighted up with wondering delight.
He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes
like those in the world. There was only one creature in
the world that could concentrate for him all the brightness
and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty. He
understood that she was driving to Ergushovo from the
railway station. And everything that had been stirring
Levin during that sleepless night, all the resolutions he had
made, all vanished at once. He recalled with horror his
dreams of marrying a peasant girl. There only, in the
carriage that had crossed over to the other side of the road,
and was rapidly disappearing, there only could he find the
solution of the riddle of his life, which had weighed so
agonizingly upon him of late.
She did not look out again. The sound of the carriage-
springs was no longer audible, the bells could scarcely be
heard. The barking of dogs showed the carriage had
reached the village, and all that was left was the empty
fields all round, the village in front, and he himself isolated

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