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Anna Karenina

‘Will there really be a trousseau and all that?’ Levin
thought with horror. ‘But can the trousseau and the
benediction and all that—can it spoil my happiness?
Nothing can spoil it!’ He glanced at Kitty, and noticed

that she was not in the least, not in the very least,
disturbed by the idea of the trousseau. ‘Then it must be all
right,’ he thought.
‘Oh, I know nothing about it; I only said what I should
like,’ he said apologetically.
‘We’ll talk it over, then. The benediction and
announcement can take place now. That’s very well.’
The princess went up to her husband, kissed him, and
would have gone away, but he kept her, embraced her,
and tenderly as a young lover, kissed her several times,
smiling. The old people were obviously muddled for a
moment, and did not quite know whether it was they
who were in love again or their daughter. When the
prince and the princess had gone, Levin went up to his
betrothed and took her hand. He was self-possessed now
and could speak, and he had a great deal he wanted to tell
her. But he said not at all what he had to say.
‘How I knew it would be so! I never hoped for it; and
yet in my heart I was always sure,’ he said. ‘I believe that it
was ordained.’

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