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Anna Karenina

‘Oh, this is awful, awful! But can it be true that you are
resolved on a divorce?’
‘I am resolved on extreme measures. There is nothing
else for me to do.’

‘Nothing else to do, nothing else to do...’ she replied,
with tears in her eyes. ‘Oh no, don’t say nothing else to
do!’ she said.
‘What is horrible in a trouble of this kind is that one
cannot, as in any other—in loss, in death—bear one’s
trouble in peace, but that one must act,’ said he, as though
guessing her thought. ‘One must get out of the
humiliating position in which one is placed; one can’t live
a trois.’
‘I understand, I quite understand that,’ said Dolly, and
her head sank. She was silent for a little, thinking of
herself, of her own grief in her family, and all at once,
with an impulsive movement, she raised her head and
clasped her hands with an imploring gesture. ‘But wait a
little! You are a Christian. Think of her! What will
become of her, if you cast her off?’
‘I have thought, Darya Alexandrovna, I have thought a
great deal,’ said Alexey Alexandrovitch. His face turned
red in patches, and his dim eyes looked straight before
him. Darya Alexandrovna at that moment pitied him with

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