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Study Guide

Anna Karenina Part 1, Chapter 13

By Leo Tolstoy

Part 1, Chapter 13

Kitty is compared to a young man going into combat, as she prepares herself to go out to a party where she might receive a proposal of marriage.
Tonight is also the night when her two suitors, Levin and Vronsky, will meet one another for the first time.
Levin sits down with her and stammers out his proposal.
Kitty refuses him, saying, "It is impossible. Forgive me."