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Anna Karenina

‘Well, that’s right,’ said Dolly; ‘you go and arrange
about it, and I’ll go and hear Grisha repeat his lesson, or
else he will have nothing done all day.’
‘That’s my lesson! No, Dolly, I’m going,’ said Levin,

jumping up.
Grisha, who was by now at a high school, had to go
over the lessons of the term in the summer holidays. Darya
Alexandrovna, who had been studying Latin with her son
in Moscow before, had made it a rule on coming to the
Levins’ to go over with him, at least once a day, the most
difficult lessons of Latin and arithmetic. Levin had offered
to take her place, but the mother, having once overheard
Levin’s lesson, and noticing that it was not given exactly as
the teacher in Moscow had given it, said resolutely,
though with much embarrassment and anxiety not to
mortify Levin, that they must keep strictly to the book as
the teacher had done, and that she had better undertake it
again herself. Levin was amazed both at Stepan
Arkadyevitch, who, by neglecting his duty, threw upon
the mother the supervision of studies of which she had no
comprehension, and at the teachers for teaching the
children so badly. But he promised his sister-in-law to
give the lessons exactly as she wished. And he went on
teaching Grisha, not in his own way, but by the book, and

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