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Anna Karenina

Chapter 17

Unconsciously going over in his memory the
conversations that had taken place during and after dinner,
Alexey Alexandrovitch returned to his solitary room.
Darya Alexandrovna’s words about forgiveness had
aroused in him nothing but annoyance. The applicability
or non-applicability of the Christian precept to his own
case was too difficult a question to be discussed lightly, and
this question had long ago been answered by Alexey
Alexandrovitch in the negative. Of all that had been said,
what stuck most in his memory was the phrase of stupid,
good-natured Turovtsin—‘ACTED LIKE A MAN, HE
DID! CALLED HIM OUT AND SHOT HIM!’
Everyone had apparently shared this feeling, though from
politeness they had not expressed it.
‘But the matter is settled, it’s useless thinking about it,’
Alexey Alexandrovitch told himself. And thinking of
nothing but the journey before him, and the revision
work he had to do, he went into his room and asked the
porter who escorted him where his man was. The porter
said that the man had only just gone out. Alexey
Alexandrovitch ordered tea to be sent him, sat down to

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