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Anna Karenina

‘Let me introduce you,’ said the princess, indicating
Levin. ‘Konstantin Dmitrievitch Levin, Count Alexey
Kirillovitch Vronsky.’
Vronsky got up and, looking cordially at Levin, shook

hands with him.
‘I believe I was to have dined with you this winter,’ he
said, smiling his simple and open smile; ‘but you had
unexpectedly left for the country.’
‘Konstantin Dmitrievitch despises and hates town and
us townspeople,’ said Countess Nordston.
‘My words must make a deep impression on you, since
you remember them so well,’ said Levin, and suddenly
conscious that he had said just the same thing before, he
reddened.
Vronsky looked at Levin and Countess Nordston, and
smiled.
‘Are you always in the country?’ he inquired. ‘I should
think it must be dull in the winter.’
‘It’s not dull if one has work to do; besides, one’s not
dull by oneself,’ Levin replied abruptly.
‘I am fond of the country,’ said Vronsky, noticing, and
affecting not to notice, Levin’s tone.
‘But I hope, count, you would not consent to live in
the country always,’ said Countess Nordston.

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