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Alexey Alexandrovitch took leave of Betsy in the drawing roo his steps

she sat up hastily in her former attitude, and looked in a scared

way at hirateful for your confidence in ently in Russian the phrase he had said in Betsy's presence in

French, and sat down beside her When he spoke to her in

Russian, using the Russian "thou" of intimacy and affection, it

was insufferably irritating to Anna "And I aine that since he is going away,

there is no sort of necessity for Count Vronsky to come here

However, if"

"But I've said so already, so why repeat it?" Anna suddenly

interrupted hi "No sort of necessity," she thought, "for a ood-bye to the woman he loves, for whom he was

ready to ruin himself, and has ruined himself, and who cannot

live without him No sort of necessity!" she co eyes to his hands with their

swollen veins They were rubbing each other

"Let us never speak of it," she added more calmly

"I have left this question to you to decide, and I a

"That my wish coincides with your own," she finished quickly,

exasperated at his talking so slohile she knew beforehand