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Anna Karenina

mind and did not ask. ‘Whether she’s coming or not, I
don’t care,’ he said to himself.
‘So you’ll come?’
‘Of course.’

‘At five o’clock, then, and not evening dress.’
And Stepan Arkadyevitch got up and went down
below to the new head of his department. Istinct had not
misled Stepan Arkadyevitch. The terrible new head turned
out to be an extremely amenable person, and Stepan
Arkadyevitch lunched with him and stayed on, so that it
was four o’clock before he got to Alexey Alexandrovitch.

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