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Anna Karenina

‘No, extremes are not good in anything,’ Natalia said
serenely, putting his paper knife straight in its proper place
on the table.
‘Well, come here, you perfect children,’ Lvov said to

the two handsome boys who came in, and after bowing to
Levin, went up to their father, obviously wishing to ask
him about something.
Levin would have liked to talk to them, to hear what
they would say to their father, but Natalia began talking to
him, and then Lvov’s colleague in the service, Mahotin,
walked in, wearing his court uniform, to go with him to
meet someone, and a conversation was kept up without a
break upon Herzegovina, Princess Korzinskaya, the town
council, and the sudden death of Madame Apraksina.
Levin even forgot the commission intrusted to him. He
recollected it as he was going into the hall.
‘Oh, Kitty told me to talk to you about Oblonsky,’ he
said, as Lvov was standing on the stairs, seeing his wife and
Levin off.
‘Yes, yes, maman wants us, les beaux-freres, to attack
him,’ he said, blushing. ‘But why should I?’
‘Well, then, I will attack him,’ said Madame Lvova,
with a smile, standing in her white sheepskin cape, waiting
till they had finished speaking. ‘Come, let us go.’

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