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Anna Karenina

so took little interest in it, and often forgot the hour of the
lesson. So it had been today.
‘No, I’m going, Dolly, you sit still,’ he said. ‘We’ll do it
all properly, like the book. Only when Stiva comes, and

we go out shooting, then we shall have to miss it.’
And Levin went to Grisha.
Varenka was saying the same thing to Kitty. Even in
the happy, well-ordered household of the Levins Varenka
had succeeded in making herself useful.
‘I’ll see to the supper, you sit still,’ she said, and got up
to go to Agafea Mihalovna.
‘Yes, yes, most likely they’ve not been able to get
chickens. If so, ours..’
‘Agafea Mihalovna and I will see about it,’ and Varenka
vanished with her.
‘What a nice girl!’ said the princess.
‘Not nice, maman; she’s an exquisite girl; there’s no
one else like her.’
‘So you are expecting Stepan Arkadyevitch today?’ said
Sergey Ivanovitch, evidently not disposed to pursue the
conversation about Varenka. ‘It would be difficult to find
two sons-in-law more unlike than yours,’ he said with a
subtle smile. ‘One all movement, only living in society,
like a fish in water; the other our Kostya, lively, alert,

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