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Anna Karenina

me, I can’t change my opinion of her—for a good, an
excellent woman; and so, excuse me, I cannot believe it.
There is some misunderstanding,’ said he.
‘Oh, if it were merely a misunderstanding!..’

‘Pardon, I understand,’ interposed Stepan
Arkadyevitch. ‘But of course.... One thing: you must not
act in haste. You must not, you must not act in haste!’
‘I am not acting in haste,’ Alexey Alexandrovitch said
coldly, ‘but one cannot ask advice of anyone in such a
matter. I have quite made up my mind.
‘This is awful!’ said Stepan Arkadyevitch. ‘I would do
one thing, Alexey Alexandrovitch. I beseech you, do it!’
he said. ‘No action has yet been taken, if I understand
rightly. Before you take advice, see my wife, talk to her.
She loves Anna like a sister, she loves you, and she’s a
wonderful woman. For God’s sake, talk to her! Do me
that favor, I beseech you!’
Alexey Alexandrovitch pondered, and Stepan
Arkadyevitch looked at him sympathetically, without
interrupting his silence.
‘You will go to see her?’
‘I don’t know. That was just why I have not been to
see you. I imagine our relations must change.’

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