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Anna Karenina

‘Alexey Alexandrovitch! I know you are a truly
magnanimous man,’ said Betsy, stopping in the little
drawing-room, and with special warmth shaking hands
with him once more. ‘I am an outsider, but I so love her

and respect you that I venture to advise. Receive him.
Alexey Vronsky is the soul of honor, and he is going away
to Tashkend.’
‘Thank you, princess, for your sympathy and advice.
But the question of whether my wife can or cannot see
anyone she must decide herself.’
He said this from habit, lifting his brows with dignity,
and reflected immediately that whatever his words might
be, there could be no dignity in his position. And he saw
this by the suppressed, malicious, and ironical smile with
which Betsy glanced at him after this phrase.

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