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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Tolstoy, Leo

Tolstoy, Leo
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Anna Karenina. Part Five

Chapters 1 Through 16

For the six weeks prior to the wedding, Levin continues in the same state
of delirious happiness. He has to reflect seriously upon only one thing.
Oblonsky tells him that he cannot be married without a certificate stating
that he has been to confession. Since he has not been to communion in nine
years, he has not given a thought to the rules of the church. The idea of
going to confession now oppresses him as an act of hypocrisy. Upon
Oblonsky's insistence, Levin tries, without success to recapture the religious
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