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Anna Karenina

His handsome, delicate, and still youthful-looking face,
to which his curly, glistening silvery hair gave a still more
aristocratic air, lighted up with a smile when he saw Levin.
‘Capital! I was meaning to send to you. How’s Kitty?

Sit here, it’s more comfortable.’ He got up and pushed up
a rocking chair. ‘Have you read the last circular in the
Journal de St. Petersbourg? I think it’s excellent,’ he said
with a slight French accent.
Levin told him what he had heard from Katavasov was
being said in Petersburg, and after talking a little about
politics, he told him of his interview with Metrov, and the
learned society’s meeting. To Lvov it was very interesting.
‘That’s what I envy you, that you are able to mix in
these interesting scientific circles,’ he said. And as he
talked, he passed as usual into French, which was easier to
him. ‘It’s true I haven’t the time for it. My official work
and the children leave me no time; and then I’m not
ashamed to own that my education has been too
defective.’
‘That I don’t believe,’ said Levin with a smile, feeling,
as he always did, touched at Lvov’s low opinion of
himself, which was not in the least put on from a desire to
seem or to be modest, but was absolutely sincere.

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