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Good evening. Tonight, I'll be reading Part 1, Chapters 13 and 14 of Anna Karenina

Silio Tolstoy. So let your eyes fall heavy. And your breath soften. As we settle in, four

peaceful nights sleep. Chapter 13

After dinner and till the beginning of the evening, Kitty was feeling a sensation akin to

the sensation of a young man before a battle. Her heart dropped violently, and her thoughts

would not rest on anything. She felt that this evening, when they would both meet for the

first time, would be a turning point in her life, and she was continually picturing

them to herself, at one moment each separately, and then both together. When she mused on the

past, she dwelt with pleasure, with tenderness, on the memories of her relations with Levin.

The memories of childhood and of Levin's friendship with her dead brother gave a special

poetic charm to her relations with him, his love for her, of which she felt certain,

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