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Anna Karenina

changed his mind and sat down again at the open pane to
bathe in the cold air and gaze at the exquisite lines of the
cross, silent, but full of meaning for him, and the
mounting lurid yellow star. At seven o’clock there was a

noise of people polishing the floors, and bells ringing in
some servants’ department, and Levin felt that he was
beginning to get frozen. He closed the pane, washed,
dressed, and went out into the street.

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