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Anna Karenina

He sat down and wrote a long phrase. She understood
it all, and without asking him, ‘Is it this?’ took the chalk
and at once answered.
For a long while he could not understand what she had

written, and often looked into her eyes. He was stupefied
with happiness. He could not supply the word she had
meant; but in her charming eyes, beaming with happiness,
he saw all he needed to know. And he wrote three letters.
But he had hardly finished writing when she read them
over her arm, and herself finished and wrote the answer,
‘Yes.’
‘You’re playing secretaire?’ said the old prince. ‘But we
must really be getting along if you want to be in time at
the theater.’
Levin got up and escorted Kitty to the door.
In their conversation everything had been said; it had
been said that she loved him, and that she would tell her
father and mother that he would come tomorrow
morning.

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