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Anna Karenina

Alexey Alexandrovitch, with the same expression of
indifference, given him by his lifted eyebrows, sat down
beside Darya Alexandrovna, and smiled affectedly.
‘It’s fortunate,’ said he, ‘especially as I was meaning to

ask you to excuse me, and to be taking leave. I have to
start tomorrow.’
Darya Alexandrovna was firmly convinced of Anna’s
innocence, and she felt herself growing pale and her lips
quivering with anger at this frigid, unfeeling man, who
was so calmly intending to ruin her innocent friend.
‘Alexey Alexandrovitch,’ she said, with desperate
resolution looking him in the face, ‘I asked you about
Anna, you made me no answer. How is she?’
‘She is, I believe, quite well, Darya Alexandrovna,’
replied Alexey Alexandrovitch, not looking at her.
‘Alexey Alexandrovitch, forgive me, I have no
right...but I love Anna as a sister, and esteem her; I beg, I
beseech you to tell me what is wrong between you? what
fault do you find with her?’
Alexey Alexandrovitch frowned, and almost closing his
eyes, dropped his head.
‘I presume that your husband has told you the grounds
on which I consider it necessary to change my attitude to
Anna Arkadyevna?’ he said, not looking her in the face,

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