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Anna Karenina

‘Bill!’ he called, and he went into the next room where
he promptly came across and aide-de-camp of his
acquaintance and dropped into conversation with him
about an actress and her protector. And at once in the

conversation with the aide-de-camp Oblonsky had a sense
of relaxation and relief after the conversation with Levin,
which always put him to too great a mental and spiritual
strain.
When the Tatar appeared with a bill for twenty-six
roubles and odd kopecks, besides a tip for himself, Levin,
who would another time have been horrified, like any one
from the country, at his share of fourteen roubles, did not
notice it, paid, and set off homewards to dress and go to
the Shtcherbatskys’ there to decide his fate.

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