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Anna Karenina

‘And some one else too! Papa, of course!’ cried Levin,
stopping at the entrance of the avenue. ‘Kitty, don’t come
down the steep staircase, go round.’
But Levin had been mistaken in taking the person

sitting in the carriage for the old prince. As he got nearer
to the carriage he saw beside Stepan Arkadyevitch not the
prince but a handsome, stout young man in a Scotch cap,
with long ends of ribbon behind. This was Vassenka
Veslovsky, a distant cousin of the Shtcherbatskys, a
brilliant young gentleman in Petersburg and Moscow
society. ‘A capital fellow, and a keen sportsman,’ as Stepan
Arkadyevitch said, introducing him.
Not a whit abashed by the disappointment caused by
his having come in place of the old prince, Veslovsky
greeted Levin gaily, claiming acquaintance with him in the
past, and snatching up Grisha into the carriage, lifted him
over the pointer that Stepan Arkadyevitch had brought
with him.
Levin did not get into the carriage, but walked behind.
He was rather vexed at the non-arrival of the old prince,
whom he liked more and more the more he saw of him,
and also at the arrival of this Vassenka Veslovsky, a quite
uncongenial and superfluous person. He seemed to him
still more uncongenial and superfluous when, on

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