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Anna Karenina

‘I’m so glad you think so,’ said Stepan Arkadyevitch,
shaking his head with a serious and sympathetically
distressed expression, ‘that’s what I’ve come to Petersburg
for.’

‘The whole town’s talking of it,’ she said. ‘It’s an
impossible position. She pines and pines away. He doesn’t
understand that she’s one of those women who can’t trifle
with their feelings. One of two things! either let him take
her away, act with energy, or give her a divorce. This is
stifling her.’
‘Yes, yes...just so...’ Oblonsky said, sighing. ‘That’s
what I’ve come for. At least not solely for that...I’ve been
made a Kammerherr; of course, one has to say thank you.
But the chief thing was having to settle this.’
‘Well, God help you!’ said Betsy.
After accompanying Betsy to the outside hall, once
more kissing her hand above the glove, at the point where
the pulse beats, and murmuring to her such unseemly
nonsense that she did not know whether to laugh or be
angry, Stepan Arkadyevitch went to his sister. He found
her in tears.
Although he happened to be bubbling over with good
spirits, Stepan Arkadyevitch immediately and quite
naturally fell into the sympathetic, poetically emotional

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