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Anna Karenina

exasperation, probably suspecting what sort of girl Stepan
Arkadyevitch was thinking of.
‘But we take our stand on principle as the ideal,’
replied Pestsov in his mellow bass. ‘Woman desires to

have rights, to be independent, educated. She is oppressed,
humiliated by the consciousness of her disabilities.’
‘And I’m oppressed and humiliated that they won’t
engage me at the Foundling,’ the old prince said again, to
the huge delight of Turovtsin, who in his mirth dropped
his asparagus with the thick end in the sauce.

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