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Anna Karenina

A. Karenin
‘P.S.—I enclose the money which may be needed for
your expenses.’
He read the letter through and felt pleased with it, and

especially that he had remembered to enclose money:
there was not a harsh word, not a reproach in it, nor was
there undue indulgence. Most of all, it was a golden
bridge for return. Folding the letter and smoothing it with
a massive ivory knife, and putting it in an envelope with
the money, he rang the bell with the gratification it always
afforded him to use the well arranged appointments of his
writing-table.
‘Give this to the courier to be delivered to Anna
Arkadyevna tomorrow at the summer villa,’ he said,
getting up.
‘Certainly, your excellency; tea to be served in the
study?’
Alexey Alexandrovitch ordered tea to be brought to
the study, and playing with the massive paper-knife, he
moved to his easy chair, near which there had been placed
ready for him a lamp and the French work on Egyptian
hieroglyphics that he had begun. Over the easy chair there
hung in a gold frame an oval portrait of Anna, a fine
painting by a celebrated artist. Alexey Alexandrovitch

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