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Anna Karenina

experienced eye of a sportsman, at once detected reeds
visible from the road.
‘Shan’t we try that?’ he said, pointing to the little
marsh.

‘Levin, do, please! how delightful!’ Vassenka Veslovsky
began begging, and Levin could but consent.
Before they had time to stop, the dogs had flown one
before the other into the marsh.
‘Krak! Laska!..’
The dogs came back.
‘There won’t be room for three. I’ll stay here,’ said
Levin, hoping they would find nothing but peewits, who
had been startled by the dogs, and turning over in their
flight, were plaintively wailing over the marsh.
‘No! Come along, Levin, let’s go together!’ Veslovsky
called.
‘Really, there’s not room. Laska, back, Laska! You
won’t want another dog, will you?’
Levin remained with the wagonette, and looked
enviously at the sportsmen. They walked right across the
marsh. Except little birds and peewits, of which Vassenka
killed one, there was nothing in the marsh.
‘Come, you see now that it was not that I grudged the
marsh,’ said Levin, ‘only it’s wasting time.’

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