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Anna Karenina

Chapter 7

Levin came back to the house only when they sent to
summon him to supper. On the stairs were standing Kitty
and Agafea Mihalovna, consulting about wines for supper.
‘But why are you making all this fuss? Have what we
usually do.’
‘No, Stiva doesn’t drink...Kostya, stop, what’s the
matter?’ Kitty began, hurrying after him, but he strode
ruthlessly away to the dining room without waiting for
her, and at once joined in the lively general conversation
which was being maintained there by Vassenka Veslovsky
and Stepan Arkadyevitch.
‘Well, what do you say, are we going shooting
tomorrow?’ said Stepan Arkadyevitch.
‘Please, do let’s go,’ said Veslovsky, moving to another
chair, where he sat down sideways, with one fat leg
crossed under him.
‘I shall be delighted, we will go. And have you had any
shooting yet this year?’ said Levin to Veslovsky, looking
intently at his leg, but speaking with that forced amiability
that Kitty knew so well in him, and that was so out of
keeping with him. ‘I can’t answer for our finding grouse,

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