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At the railway station to meet his mother, Vronsky steps back to let a lady out of her compartment and glimpses her face. "In that brief look Vronsky had time to notice the suppressed eagerness which played over her face ... It was as though her nature were so brimming over with something that against her will it showed itself now in the flash of her eyes, and now in her smile". Their fates are sealed.
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