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Anna Karenina

Chapter 11

Everyone took part in the conversation except Kitty
and Levin. At first, when they were talking of the
influence that one people has on another, there rose to
Levin’s mind what he had to say on the subject. But these
ideas, once of such importance in his eyes, seemed to
come into his brain as in a dream, and had now not the
slightest interest for him. It even struck him as strange that
they should be so eager to talk of what was of no use to
anyone. Kitty, too, should, one would have supposed,
have been interested in what they were saying of the rights
and education of women. How often she had mused on
the subject, thinking of her friend abroad, Varenka, of her
painful state of dependence, how often she had wondered
about herself what would become of her if she did not
marry, and how often she had argued with her sister about
it! But it did not interest her at all. She and Levin had a
conversation of their own, yet not a conversation, but
some sort of mysterious communication, which brought
them every moment nearer, and stirred in both a sense of
glad terror before the unknown into which they were
entering.

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