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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: Ivanovna was announced. the Countess Lidia Ivanovna was a tall,
stout woman, with an unhealthily sallow face and splendid,
pensive black eyes. Anna liked her, but today she seemed to be
seeing her for the first time with all her defects.
"Well, my dear, so you took the olive branch?" inquired Countess
Lidia Ivanovna, as soon as she came into the room.
"Yes, it's all over, but ti was all much less serious than we had
supposed," answered Anna. "My belle-soeur is in general too
hasty."
But Countess Lidia Ivanovna, though she was interested in
everything that did not concern her, had a habit of never
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