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Anna Karenina

simplicity, particularly in conjunction with his good looks,
his amiable smile, and the grace of his movements, was
very attractive. Either because his nature was sympathetic
to Levin, or because Levin was trying to atone for his sins

of the previous evening by seeing nothing but what was
good in him, anyway he liked his society.
After they had driven over two miles from home,
Veslovsky all at once felt for a cigar and his pocketbook,
and did not know whether he had lost them or left them
on the table. In the pocketbook there were thirty-seven
pounds, and so the matter could not be left in uncertainty.
‘Do you know what, Levin, I’ll gallop home on that
left trace-horse. That will be splendid. Eh?’ he said,
preparing to get out.
‘No, why should you?’ answered Levin, calculating that
Vassenka could hardly weigh less than seventeen stone.
‘I’ll send the coachman.’
The coachman rode back on the trace-horse, and Levin
himself drove the remaining pair.

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