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Anna Karenina

Chapter 14

Next day at ten o’clock Levin, who had already gone
his rounds, knocked at the room where Vassenka had been
put for the night.
‘Entrez!’ Veslovsky called to him. ‘Excuse me, I’ve only
just finished my ablutions,’ he said, smiling, standing
before him in his underclothes only.
‘Don’t mind me, please.’ Levin sat down in the
window. ‘Have you slept well?’
‘Like the dead. What sort of day is it for shooting?’
‘What will you take, tea or coffee?’
‘Neither. I’ll wait till lunch. I’m really ashamed. I
suppose the ladies are down? A walk now would be
capital. You show me your horses.’
After walking about the garden, visiting the stable, and
even doing some gymnastic exercises together on the
parallel bars, Levin returned to the house with his guest,
and went with him into the drawing room.
‘We had splendid shooting, and so many delightful
experiences!’ said Veslovsky, going up to Kitty, who was
sitting at the samovar. ‘What a pity ladies are cut off from
these delights!’

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