Anna Karenina

and Oblonsky came back the ladies heard the facts
from the butler.
Oblonsky and Vronsky had both seen the mutilated corpse. Oblonsky
was evidently distressed. He frowned and seemed ready to cry.
"Ah, how awful! Ah, Anna, if you had seen it! Ah, how awful!" he
kept repeating.
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Vronsky did not speak; his handsome face was serious, but
perfectly calm.
"Ah, if you had seen it, Countess," said Stepan Arkadyevich. "And
his wife was there.... It was awful to see her!... She flung herself
on the body. They say he was the only support of an immense family.
How awful!"
"Couldn't one do anything for her?" said Madame Karenina in an
agitated whisper.
Vronsky glanced at her, and immediately got out of the carriage.
"I'll be back directly, maman," he remarked, turning round in the
doorway.
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When he came back a few minutes later, Stepan Arkadyevich was
already in conversation with the Countess about a new singer, while
she was impatiently looking toward the door, waiting for her son.
"Now let us be off," said Vronsky, coming in.
They went out together. Vronsky was in front with his mother. Behind
walked Madame Karenina with her brother. Just as they were going out
of the station the stationmaster overtook Vronsky.
"You gave my assistant two hundred roubles. Would you kindly explain
for whose benefit you intend them?"
"For the widow," said Vronsky, shrugging his shoulders. "I should
have thought there was no need to ask."
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"You gave that?" cried Oblonsky behind, and, pressing his sister's
hand, he added: "Most charming, most charming! Isn't he a fine fellow?
Good-by, Countess."
And he and his sister stood still, looking for her maid.
When they went out the Vronskys' carriage had already driven away.
People coming in were still talking of what had happened.
"What a horrible death!" said a gentleman, passing by. "They say
he was cut in two."
"On the contrary, I think it's the easiest- instantaneous," observed
another.
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"How is it they don't take proper precautions?" a third was saying.
Madame Karenina seated herself in the carriage, and Stepan
Arkadyevich saw with surprise that her lips were quivering, and that
she was with difficulty restraining her tears.
"What is it, Anna?" he asked, when they had driven a few hundred
sagenes.
"It's an omen of evil," she said.
"What nonsense!" said Stepan Arkadyevich. "You've come, that's the
chief thing. You can't conceive how I'm resting my hopes on you."
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"Have you known Vronsky long? she asked.
"Yes. You know we're hoping he will marry Kitty."
"Yes?" said Anna softly. "Come now, let us talk of you," she
added, tossing her head, as though she would physically shake off
something superfluous oppressing her. "Let us talk of your affairs.
I got your letter, and here I am."
"Yes, all my hopes are in you," said Stepan Arkadyevich.
"Well, tell me all about it."
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