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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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