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Anna Karenina

the young people were to set out the same evening, he
had done so, packing everything but the dress suit. The
shirt worn since the morning was crumpled and out of the
question with the fashionable open waistcoat. It was a long

way to send to the Shtcherbatskys’. They sent out to buy a
shirt. The servant came back; everything was shut up—it
was Sunday. They sent to Stepan Arkadyevitch’s and
brought a shirt—it was impossibly wide and short. They
sent finally to the Shtcherbatskys’ to unpack the things.
The bridegroom was expected at the church while he was
pacing up and down his room like a wild beast in a cage,
peeping out into the corridor, and with horror and despair
recalling what absurd things he had said to Kitty and what
she might be thinking now.
At last the guilty Kouzma flew panting into the room
with the shirt.
‘Only just in time. They were just lifting it into the
van,’ said Kouzma.
Three minutes later Levin ran full speed into the
corridor, not looking at his watch for fear of aggravating
his sufferings.
‘You won’t help matters like this,’ said Stepan
Arkadyevitch with a smile, hurrying with more

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