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Anna Karenina

‘Well, this fellow’s appetite!’ said Stepan Arkadyevitch,
laughing and pointing at Vassenka Veslovsky. ‘I never
suffer from loss of appetite, but he’s really marvelous!..’
‘Well, it can’t be helped,’ said Levin, looking gloomily

at Veslovsky. ‘Well, Philip, give me some beef, then.’
‘The beef’s been eaten, and the bones given to the
dogs,’ answered Philip.
Levin was so hurt that he said, in a tone of vexation,
‘You might have left me something!’ and he felt ready to
cry.
‘Then put away the game,’ he said in a shaking voice to
Philip, trying not to look at Vassenka, ‘and cover them
with some nettles. And you might at least ask for some
milk for me.’
But when he had drunk some milk, he felt ashamed
immediately at having shown his annoyance to a stranger,
and he began to laugh at his hungry mortification.
In the evening they went shooting again, and
Veslovsky had several successful shots, and in the night
they drove home.
Their homeward journey was as lively as their drive out
had been. Veslovsky sang songs and related with
enjoyment his adventures with the peasants, who had
regaled him with vodka, and said to him, ‘Excuse our

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