"Suddenly both of them felt that, although they were friends, although they had dined together and drunk wine, which should have brought them even closer, nevertheless each of them was thinking only of his own affairs, and neither cared anything about the other. Oblonsky already knew this extreme detachment that occurs, instead of fusion, after a meal, and knew well what to do in such cases. "The bill!" he cried,"
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