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Anna Karenina

smile and said gently, ‘Kiss your wife, and you kiss your
husband,’ and took the candles out of their hands.
Levin kissed her smiling lips with timid care, gave her
his arm, and with a new strange sense of closeness, walked

out of the church. He did not believe, he could not
believe, that it was true. It was only when their wondering
and timid eyes met that he believed in it, because he felt
that they were one.
After supper, the same night, the young people left for
the country.

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