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Anna Karenina

At first Levin, in answer to Kitty’s question how he
could have seen her last year in the carriage, told her how
he had been coming home from the mowing along the
highroad and had met her.

‘It was very, very early in the morning. You were
probably only just awake. Your mother was asleep in the
corner. It was an exquisite morning. I was walking along
wondering who it could be in a four-in-hand? It was a
splendid set of four horses with bells, and in a second you
flashed by, and I saw you at the window—you were
sitting like this, holding the strings of your cap in both
hands, and thinking awfully deeply about something,’ he
said, smiling. ‘How I should like to know what you were
thinking about then! Something important?’
‘Wasn’t I dreadfully untidy?’ she wondered, but seeing
the smile of ecstasy these reminiscences called up, she felt
that the impression she had made had been very good. She
blushed and laughed with delight; ‘Really I don’t
remember.’
‘How nicely Turovtsin laughs!’ said Levin, admiring his
moist eyes and shaking chest.
‘Have you known him longs’ asked Kitty.
‘Oh, everyone knows him!’
‘And I see you think he’s a horrid man?’

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