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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: wrong. She's writing a children's book, and doesn't talk about it
to any one, but she read it to me and I gave the manuscript to
Vorknev ...you know the publisher ...and he's an author
himself too, I fancy. He understands those things, and he says
it's a remarkable piece of work. But are you fancying she's an
authoress? --not a bit of it. She's a woman with a heart, before
everything, but you'll see. Now she has a little English girl
with her, and a whole family she's looking after."
"Oh, something in a philanthropic way?"
"Why, you will look at everything in the worst light. It's not
from philanthropy, it's from the heart. They--that is, Vronsky--
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