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Leo Tolstoy:
The opening of Anna Karenina
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     \-\Happy families are all alike; \C\every unhappy family is unhappy {in its own way.}

     \-\Everything was {in confusion} {in the Oblonskys' house.} \-\The wife had discovered [RNDOthat the husband was carrying on an intrigue {with a French girl,} [RAJFwho had been a governess {in their family,}]] \C\and she had announced {to her husband} [RNDOthat she could not go on living*GerDO07 {in the same house} {with him.}] \-\This position {of affairs} had now lasted three days,#NuA02 \C\and not only the husband and wife=CS themselves,#App01 but all the members=CS {of their family and household,} were painfully conscious {of it.} \-\Every person {in the house} felt [RNDOthat there was no sense {in their living*GerOP03 together,}] and [RNDO=CCthat the stray people brought*GiveM07 together {by chance} {in any inn} had more {in common} {with one another} [RAVRthan they, the members#App10 {of the family and household} {of the Oblonskys.}]] \-\The wife did not leave her own room, \,\the husband had not been {at home} {for three days.} \-\The children ran wild all {over the house;} \C\the English governess quarreled {with the housekeeper,} and wrote=CV {to a friend} asking*GiveR11 her to look out for*INFDO10 a new situation {for her;} \C\the man-cook had walked off the day#NuA06 {before} just {at dinner-time;} \C\the kitchen-maid, and the coachman=CS had given warning.

     \-\Three days#NuA05 {after the quarrel,} Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky-- Stiva,#App09 [MINJas he was called=PV {in the fashionable world--}] woke up {at his usual hour,} [RNAPthat is, {at eight o'clock} {in the morning,}] not {in his wife's bedroom,} but {on the leather-covered sofa} {in his study.} \-\He turned over his stout, well-cared-for person {on the springy sofa,} [RAVFas though he would sink {into a long sleep} again;] \C\he vigorously embraced the pillow {on the other side} and buried=CV his face {in it;} \C\but all {at once} he jumped up, sat=CV up {on the sofa,} and opened=CV his eyes.
 

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