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PART SIX CHAPTER 20
mechanical improvements, appreciated everything fully. Dolly simply wondered at
all she had not seen before, and, anxious to understand it all, made minute inquiries
about everything, which gave Vronsky great satisfaction.
“Yes, I imagine that this will be the solitary example of a properly fitted hospital
in Russia,” said Sviazhsky.
“And won’t you have a lying-in ward?” asked Dolly. “That’s so much needed in
the country. I have often...”
In spite of his usual courtesy, Vronsky interrupted her.
“This is not a lying-in home, but a hospital for the sick, and is intended for all
diseases, except infectious complaints,” he said. “Ah! look at this,” and he rolled up
to Darya Alexandrovna an invalid chair that had just been ordered for the convalescents.
“Look.” He sat down in the chair and began moving it. “The patient can’t
walk–still too weak, perhaps, or something wrong with his legs, but he must have
air, and he moves, rolls himself along....”
Darya Alexandrovna was interested by everything. She liked everything very
much, but most of all she liked Vronsky himself with his natural, simple-hearted
eagerness. “Yes, he’s a very nice, good man,” she thought several times, not hearing
what he said, but looking at him and penetrating into his expression, while she
mentally put herself in Anna’s place. She liked him so much just now with his eager
interest that she saw how Anna could be in love with him.
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