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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: one, had in the early days of her life in Petersburg made friends
in this circle also. Now, since her return from Moscow, she had
come to feel this set insufferable. It seemed to her that both
she and all of them wer insincere, and she fell so bored and ill
at ease in that world that she went to see the Countess Lidia
Ivanovna as little as possible.
The third circle with which Anna had ties was preeminently the
fashionable world--the world of balls, of dinners, of sumpuous
dresses, the world that hung on to the court with one hand, so as
to avoid sinking to the level of the demi-monde. For the
demi-monde the members ofthat fashionable world believed that
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