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Anna Karenina

‘I’m not defending him, it’s nothing to me; but I
imagine, if you had not cared for those pleasures yourself,
you might have got out of them. But if it affords you
satisfaction to gaze at Therese in the attire of Eve..’

‘Again, the devil again,’ Vronsky said, taking the hand
she had laid on the table and kissing it.
‘Yes; but I can’t help it. You don’t know what I have
suffered waiting for you. I believe I’m not jealous. I’m not
jealous: I believe you when you’re here; but when you’re
away somewhere leading your life, so incomprehensible to
me..’
She turned away from him, pulled the hook at last out
of the crochet work, and rapidly, with the help of her
forefinger, began working loop after loop of the wool that
was dazzling white in the lamplight, while the slender
wrist moved swiftly, nervously in the embroidered cuff.
‘How was it, then? Where did you meet Alexey
Alexandrovitch?’ Her voice sounded in an unnatural and
jarring tone.
‘We ran up against each other in the doorway.’
‘And he bowed to you like this?’
She drew a long face, and half-closing her eyes, quickly
transformed her expression, folded her hands, and Vronsky
suddenly saw in her beautiful face the very expression with

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