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"I want to warn you," he said in a low voice, "that through

thoughtlessness and lack of caution you may cause yourself to be

talked about in society Your too ani with Count Vronsky" (he enunciated the name firmly and

with deliberate emphasis) "attracted attention"

He talked and looked at her laughing eyes, which frightened him

noith their impenetrable look, and, as he talked, he felt all

the uselessness and idleness of his words

"You're always like that," she answered, as though co hi in the

last phrase "One ti dull, and another

ti lively I wasn't dull Does that

offend you?"

Alexey Alexandrovitch shivered, and bent his hands to make the

joints crack

"Oh, please, don't do that, I do so dislike it," she said

"Anna, is this you?" said Alexey Alexandrovitch, quietlythe ers

"But what is it all about?" she said, with such genuine and droll

wonder "What do you want of me?"

Alexey Alexandrovitch paused, and rubbed his forehead and his