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After taking leave of the Princess, Sergey Ivanovich got into the overcrowded carriage with Katavasov, who had joined him, and the train departed. At Tsaritsyno station the train was met by a harmonious choir of young men singing ‘Glory’.* The volunteers poked their...

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The weather was clear. A fine, light drizzle had been falling all morning, and had just now cleared up. The iron roofs, the flagstones of the pavements, the cobblestones of the road, the wheels and leather, and the brass and tinplate of...

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Never before had a quarrel lasted a whole day. Today it had happened for the first time. And it was not a quarrel. It was a clear admission that his feelings had completely cooled. Was it possible to look at her in the ...

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‘So, did you enjoy yourself?’ she asked as she came out to meet him with a guilty and meek expression on her face. ‘The same as usual,’ he replied, immediately realizing from one look at her that she was in one of her...

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Stepan Arkadyich’s affairs were in a bad way. Two-thirds of the money for the wood had already been spent and, with a ten-per-cent deduction, he had obtained almost all of the remaining third from the merchant in advance. The merchant would not give any more...

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‘Oblonsky’s carriage!’ the porter shouted out in an angry bass. The carriage drew up and they both got in. It was only for the first few moments while the carriage was driving out through the club gates that Levin continued to experience the...

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Levin arrived at the club at its busiest time. Guests and members were driving up alongside him. Levin had not been to the club for a very long time, not since he had been living in Moscow after leaving university and was going into...

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‘So please call on the Bohls,’ Kitty said to her husband when he came in to see her at eleven o’clock before going out. ‘I know you are dining at the club, Papa has signed you in. But what are you doing this...

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In September Levin moved to Moscow for Kitty’s confinement. He had already spent a whole month in Moscow without doing anything when Sergey Ivanovich, who had property in Kashin Province and took an active interest in the question of the forthcoming elections, started making...

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‘Then there is all the more need for you to regularize your position, if possible,’ said Dolly. ‘Yes, if possible,’ said Anna in a suddenly completely different, quiet and sad voice. ‘A divorce is not impossible, is it? I was told your husband...