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Anna Karenina

kind and civil, but the point evaded seemed to crop up
again in the end, and again to bar the way. What was
particularly trying, was that Levin could not make out
with whom he was struggling, to whose interest it was

that his business should not be done. That no one seemed
to know; the solicitor certainly did not know. If Levin
could have understood why, just as he saw why one can
only approach the booking office of a railway station in
single file, it would not have been so vexatious and
tiresome to him. But with the hindrances that confronted
him in his business, no one could explain why they
existed.
But Levin had changed a good deal since his marriage;
he was patient, and if he could not see why it was all
arranged like this, he told himself that he could not judge
without knowing all about it, and that most likely it must
be so, and he tried not to fret.
In attending the elections, too, and taking part in them,
he tried now not to judge, not to fall foul of them, but to
comprehend as fully as he could the question which was
so earnestly and ardently absorbing honest and excellent
men whom he respected. Since his marriage there had
been revealed to Levin so many new and serious aspects of
life that had previously, through his frivolous attitude to

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