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Anna Karenina

Chapter 9

‘Well, now what’s our plan of campaign? Tell us all
about it,’ said Stepan Arkadyevitch.
‘Our plan is this. Now we’re driving to Gvozdyov. In
Gvozdyov there’s a grouse marsh on this side, and beyond
Gvozdyov come some magnificent snipe marshes where
there are grouse too. It’s hot now, and we’ll get there—it’s
fifteen miles or so—towards evening and have some
evening shooting; we’ll spend the night there and go on
tomorrow to the bigger moors.’
‘And is there nothing on the way?’
‘Yes; but we’ll reserve ourselves; besides it’s hot. There
are two nice little places, but I doubt there being anything
to shoot.’
Levin would himself have liked to go into these little
places, but they were near home; he could shoot them
over any time, and they were only little places—there
would hardly be room for three to shoot. And so, with
some insincerity, he said that he doubted there being
anything to shoot. When they reached a little marsh Levin
would have driven by, but Stepan Arkadyevitch, with the

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