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Anna Karenina

A silence followed. The mother once more exchanged
glances with a daughter.
‘Well, now I think the time has come,’ thought Levin,
and he got up. The ladies shook hands with him, and

begged him to say mille choses to his wife for them.
The porter asked him, as he gave him his coat, ‘Where
is your honor staying?’ and immediately wrote down his
address in a big handsomely bound book.
‘Of course I don’t care, but still I feel ashamed and
awfully stupid,’ thought Levin, consoling himself with the
reflection that everyone does it. He drove to the public
meeting, where he was to find his sister-in-law, so as to
drive home with her.
At the public meeting of the committee there were a
great many people, and almost all the highest society.
Levin was in time for the report which, as everyone said,
was very interesting. When the reading of the report was
over, people moved about, and Levin met Sviazhsky, who
invited him very pressingly to come that evening to a
meeting of the Society of Agriculture, where a celebrated
lecture was to be delivered, and Stepan Arkadyevitch, who
had only just come from the races, and many other
acquaintances; and Levin heard and uttered various
criticisms on the meeting, on the new fantasia, and on a

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