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Anna Karenina

‘Madame has been out for a walk but has returned
now,’ answered the waiter.
Vronsky took off his soft, wide-brimmed hat and passed
his handkerchief over his heated brow and hair, which had

grown half over his ears, and was brushed back covering
the bald patch on his head. And glancing casually at the
gentleman, who still stood there gazing intently at him, he
would have gone on.
‘This gentleman is a Russian, and was inquiring after
you,’ said the head waiter.
With mingled feelings of annoyance at never being able
to get away from acquaintances anywhere, and longing to
find some sort of diversion from the monotony of his life,
Vronsky looked once more at the gentleman, who had
retreated and stood still again, and at the same moment a
light came into the eyes of both.
‘Golenishtchev!’
‘Vronsky!’
It really was Golenishtchev, a comrade of Vronsky’s in
the Corps of Pages. In the corps Golenishtchev had
belonged to the liberal party; he left the corps without
entering the army, and had never taken office under the
government. Vronsky and he had gone completely

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