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Anna Karenina

‘Not horrid, but nothing in him.’
‘Oh, you’re wrong! And you must give up thinking so
directly!’ said Kitty. ‘I used to have a very poor opinion of
him too, but he, he’s an awfully nice and wonderfully

good-hearted man. He has a heart of gold.’
‘How could you find out what sort of heart he has?’
‘We are great friends. I know him very well. Last
winter, soon after...you came to see us,’ she said, with a
guilty and at the same time confiding smile, ‘all Dolly’s
children had scarlet fever, and he happened to come and
see her. And only fancy,’ she said in a whisper, ‘he felt so
sorry for her that he stayed and began to help her look
after the children. Yes, and for three weeks he stopped
with them, and looked after the children like a nurse.’
‘I am telling Konstantin Dmitrievitch about Turovtsin
in the scarlet fever,’ she said, bending over to her sister.
‘Yes, it was wonderful, noble!’ said Dolly, glancing
towards Turovtsin, who had become aware they were
talking of him, and smiling gently to him. Levin glanced
once more at Turovtsin, and wondered how it was he had
not realized all this man’s goodness before.
‘I’m sorry, I’m sorry, and I’ll never think ill of people
again!’ he said gaily, genuinely expressing what he felt at
the moment.

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