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Anna Karenina

Vronsky; but if they all thought this out of the question,
he was even ready to allow these relations to be renewed,
so long as the children were not disgraced, and he was not
deprived of them nor forced to change his position. Bad as

this might be, it was anyway better than a rupture, which
would put her in a hopeless and shameful position, and
deprive him of everything he cared for. But he felt
helpless; he knew beforehand that every one was against
him, and that he would not be allowed to do what seemed
to him now so natural and right, but would be forced to
do what was wrong, though it seemed the proper thing to
them.

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