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PART FOUR CHAPTER 23
To decline the flattering and dangerous appointment at Tashkend would have
been, Vronsky had till then considered, disgraceful and impossible. But now, without
an instant’s consideration, he declined it, and observing dissatisfaction in the
most exalted quarters at this step, he immediately retired from the army.
A month later Alexey Alexandrovitch was left alone with his son in his house
at Petersburg, while Anna and Vronsky had gone abroad, not having obtained a
divorce, but having absolutely declined all idea of one.
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