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Anna Karenina

Chapter 13

The sportsman’s saying, that if the first beast or the first
bird is not missed, the day will be lucky, turned out
correct.
At ten o’clock Levin, weary, hungry, and happy after a
tramp of twenty miles, returned to his night’s lodging with
nineteen head of fine game and one duck, which he tied
to his belt, as it would not go into the game bag. His
companions had long been awake, and had had time to get
hungry and have breakfast.
‘Wait a bit, wait a bit, I know there are nineteen,’ said
Levin, counting a second time over the grouse and snipe,
that looked so much less important now, bent and dry and
bloodstained, with heads crooked aside, than they did
when they were flying.
The number was verified, and Stepan Arkadyevitch’s
envy pleased Levin. He was pleased too on returning to
find the man sent by Kitty with a note was already there.
‘I am perfectly well and happy. If you were uneasy
about me, you can feel easier than ever. I’ve a new
bodyguard, Marya Vlasyevna,’— this was the midwife, a
new and important personage in Levin’s domestic life.

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