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1  I always said she was exquisite, your wife.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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2  All he repented of was that he had not succeeded better in hiding it from his wife.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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3  The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days.
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4  But he felt all the difficulty of his position and was sorry for his wife, his children, and himself.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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5  He did not succeed in adapting his face to the position in which he was placed towards his wife by the discovery of his fault.
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6  And signing each other with the cross, the husband and wife parted with a kiss, feeling that they each remained of their own opinion.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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7  To sell this forest was absolutely essential; but at present, until he was reconciled with his wife, the subject could not be discussed.
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8  The most unpleasant thing of all was that his pecuniary interests should in this way enter into the question of his reconciliation with his wife.
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9  And again every detail of his quarrel with his wife was present to his imagination, all the hopelessness of his position, and worst of all, his own fault.
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10  Still she did not forget that Anna, her sister-in-law, was the wife of one of the most important personages in Petersburg, and was a Petersburg grande dame.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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11  Possibly he might have managed to conceal his sins better from his wife if he had anticipated that the knowledge of them would have had such an effect on her.
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12  This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it.
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13  He had never clearly thought out the subject, but he had vaguely conceived that his wife must long ago have suspected him of being unfaithful to her, and shut her eyes to the fact.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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14  He could not at this date repent of the fact that he, a handsome, susceptible man of thirty-four, was not in love with his wife, the mother of five living and two dead children, and only a year younger than himself.
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15  The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him.
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16  And noticing a gleam of light peeping in beside one of the serge curtains, he cheerfully dropped his feet over the edge of the sofa, and felt about with them for his slippers, a present on his last birthday, worked for him by his wife on gold-colored morocco.
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17  Most unpleasant of all was the first minute when, on coming, happy and good-humored, from the theater, with a huge pear in his hand for his wife, he had not found his wife in the drawing-room, to his surprise had not found her in the study either, and saw her at last in her bedroom with the unlucky letter that revealed everything in her hand.
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