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PART ONE CHAPTER 31
Countess Lidia Ivanovna, well known in society, a samovar, because she was always
bubbling over with excitement.) “She has been continually asking after you. And,
do you know, if I may venture to advise you, you should go and see her today. You
know how she takes everything to heart. Just now, with all her own cares, she’s
anxious about the Oblonskys being brought together.”
The Countess Lidia Ivanovna was a friend of her husband’s, and the center of
that one of the coteries of the Petersburg world with which Anna was, through her
husband, in the closest relations.
“But you know I wrote to her?”
“Still she’ll want to hear details. Go and see her, if you’re not too tired, my dear.
Well, Kondraty will take you in the carriage, while I go to my committee. I shall not
be alone at dinner again,” Alexey Alexandrovitch went on, no longer in a sarcastic
tone. “You wouldn’t believe how I’ve missed...” And with a long pressure of her
hand and a meaning smile, he put her in her carriage.
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