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I, Dorothea, am he who witnessed the wrong done by Don Fernando, and waited to hear the 'Yes' uttered by which Luscinda owned herself his betrothed: I am he who had not courage enough to see how her fainting fit ended, or what came of the paper that was found in her bosom, because my heart had not the fortitude to endure so many strokes of ill-fortune at once; and so losing patience I quitted the house, and leaving a letter with my host, which I entreated him to place in Luscinda's hands, I betook myself to these solitudes, resolved to end here the life I hated as if it were my mortal enemy.

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When they had already quitted the table and had all begun smoking, Vronsky's valet came up to him with a letter on a salver.

The year before, he had quitted the diplomatic service, not because of any unpleasantness (he never had unpleasantness with anyone), but had exchanged into the Moscow Court Ministry in order to be able to give his boys the best education.

Smiling, and hardly able to keep back tears of tenderness, Levin kissed his wife and quitted the darkened room.

His soul had almost quitted its mortal envelope, which was strolling at a slow pace along the north aisle committed to his charge.

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