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That which for Vronsky had been al desire of his life, replacing all his old desires; that

which for Anna had been an impossible, terrible, and even for

that reasondream of bliss, that desire had been

fulfilled He stood before her, pale, his lower jaw quivering,

and besought her to be cal hohy

"Anna! Anna!" he said with a choking voice, "Anna, for pity's

sake!"

But the louder he spoke, the lower she dropped her once proud and

gay, now shame-stricken head, and she bowed down and sank fro, down on the floor, at his feet;

she would have fallen on the carpet if he had not held her

"My God! Forgivehis hands to

her boso was left her but to

huiveness; and as now there was no

one in her life but hi at him, she had a physical sense of her

hu more He felt what a

murderer must feel, when he sees the body he has robbed of life