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Anna Karenina

‘She has come to have a look at me. She found me
perfectly well, and we have kept her till you are back. All
are happy and well, and please, don’t be in a hurry to
come back, but, if the sport is good, stay another day.’

These two pleasures, his lucky shooting and the letter
from his wife, were so great that two slightly disagreeable
incidents passed lightly over Levin. One was that the
chestnut trace horse, who had been unmistakably
overworked on the previous day, was off his feed and out
of sorts. The coachman said he was ‘Overdriven yesterday,
Konstantin Dmitrievitch. Yes, indeed! driven ten miles
with no sense!’
The other unpleasant incident, which for the first
minute destroyed his good humor, though later he
laughed at it a great deal, was to find that of all the
provisions Kitty had provided in such abundance that one
would have thought there was enough for a week,
nothing was left. On his way back, tired and hungry from
shooting, Levin had so distinct a vision of meat-pies that as
he approached the hut he seemed to smell and taste them,
as Laska had smelt the game, and he immediately told
Philip to give him some. It appeared that there were no
pies left, nor even any chicken.

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