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Anna Karenina

Next morning, Tuesday, Alexey Alexandrovitch, on
waking up, recollected with pleasure his triumph of the
previous day, and he could not help smiling, though he
tried to appear indifferent, when the chief secretary of his

department, anxious to flatter him, informed him of the
rumors that had reached him concerning what had
happened in the Commission.
Absorbed in business with the chief secretary, Alexey
Alexandrovitch had completely forgotten that it was
Tuesday, the day fixed by him for the return of Anna
Arkadyevna, and he was surprised and received a shock of
annoyance when a servant came in to inform him of her
arrival.
Anna had arrived in Petersburg early in the morning;
the carriage had been sent to meet her in accordance with
her telegram, and so Alexey Alexandrovitch might have
known of her arrival. But when she arrived, he did not
meet her. She was told that he had not yet gone out, but
was busy with his secretary. She sent word to her husband
that she had come, went to her own room, and occupied
herself in sorting out her things, expecting he would come
to her. But an hour passed; he did not come. She went
into the dining room on the pretext of giving some
directions, and spoke loudly on purpose, expecting him to

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