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Anna Karenina

To decline the flattering and dangerous appointment at
Tashkend would have been, Vronsky had till then
considered, disgraceful and impossible. But now, without
an instant’s consideration, he declined it, and observing

dissatisfaction in the most exalted quarters at this step, he
immediately retired from the army.
A month later Alexey Alexandrovitch was left alone
with his son in his house at Petersburg, while Anna and
Vronsky had gone abroad, not having obtained a divorce,
but having absolutely declined all idea of one.

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