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Anna Karenina

against the other to shake the snow off. ‘What a shame of
you not to let us know!’ he repeated.
‘I had no time; I am very busy,’ Alexey Alexandrovitch
responded dryly.

‘Come to my wife, she does so want to see you.’
Alexey Alexandrovitch unfolded the rug in which his
frozen feet were wrapped, and getting out of his carriage
made his way over the snow to Darya Alexandrovna.
‘Why, Alexey Alexandrovitch, what are you cutting us
like this for?’ said Dolly, smiling.
‘I was very busy. Delighted to see you!’ he said in a
tone clearly indicating that he was annoyed by it. ‘How
are you?’
‘Tell me, how is my darling Anna?’
Alexey Alexandrovitch mumbled something and would
have gone on. But Stepan Arkadyevitch stopped him.
‘I tell you what we’ll do tomorrow. Dolly, ask him to
dinner. We’ll ask Koznishev and Pestsov, so as to entertain
him with our Moscow celebrities.’
‘Yes, please, do come,’ said Dolly; ‘we will expect you
at five, or six o’clock, if you like. How is my darling
Anna? How long..’

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