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The whole of that day Anna spent at home, that's to say at the

Oblonskys', and received no one, though some of her acquaintances

had already heard of her arrival, and ca with Dolly and the children She

merely sent a brief note to her brother to tell him that he must

not fail to dine at home "Come, God is merciful," she wrote

Oblonsky did dine at hoeneral, and his

wife, speaking to him, addressed him as "Stiva," as she had not

done before In the relations of the husband and wife the saement still remained, but there was no talk now of

separation, and Stepan Arkadyevitch saw the possibility of

explanation and reconciliation

Immediately after dinner Kitty cahtly, and she came now to her

sister's with so this

fashionable Petersburg lady, whohly of

But she made a favorable impression on Anna Arkadyevna--she saw

that at once Anna was un her loveliness and

her youth: before Kitty knehere she was she found herself not

irls do

fall in love with older and married women Anna was not like a

fashionable lady, nor the ht years old In

the elasticity of her erness which persisted in her face, and broke out in her sirl of