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Anna Karenina

money-lender, ten thousand roubles, a proceeding which
presented no difficulty, to cut down his expenses
generally, and to sell his race horses. Resolving on this, he
promptly wrote a note to Rolandak, who had more than

once sent to him with offers to buy horses from him.
Then he sent for the Englishman and the money-lender,
and divided what money he had according to the accounts
he intended to pay. Having finished this business, he
wrote a cold and cutting answer to his mother. Then he
took out of his notebook three notes of Anna’s, read them
again, burned them, and remembering their conversation
on the previous day, he sank into meditation.

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