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Anna Karenina
to her apron-strings.... Well, it can’t be helped! Negative
again...’
Half asleep, he heard the laughter and mirthful talk of
Veslovsky and Stepan Arkadyevitch. For an instant he
opened his eyes: the moon was up, and in the open
doorway, brightly lighted up by the moonlight, they were
standing talking. Stepan Arkadyevitch was saying
something of the freshness of one girl, comparing her to a
freshly peeled nut, and Veslovsky with his infectious laugh
was repeating some words, probably said to him by a
peasant: ‘Ah, you do your best to get round her!’ Levin,
half asleep, said:
‘Gentlemen, tomorrow before daylight!’ and fell asleep.
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