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Anna Karenina

bringing two delicate glasses of sparkling champagne, and
addressing Stepan Arkadyevitch and Levin. Stepan
Arkadyevitch took the glass, and looking towards a bald
man with red mustaches at the other end of the table, he

nodded to him, smiling.
‘Who’s that?’ asked Levin.
‘You met him once at my place, don’t you remember?
A good-natured fellow.’
Levin did the same as Stepan Arkadyevitch and took
the glass.
Stepan Arkadyevitch’s anecdote too was very amusing.
Levin told his story, and that too was successful. Then
they talked of horses, of the races, of what they had been
doing that day, and of how smartly Vronsky’s Atlas had
won the first prize. Levin did not notice how the time
passed at dinner.
‘Ah! and here they are!’ Stepan Arkadyevitch said
towards the end of dinner, leaning over the back of his
chair and holding out his hand to Vronsky, who came up
with a tall officer of the Guards. Vronsky’s face too
beamed with the look of good-humored enjoyment that
was general in the club. He propped his elbow playfully
on Stepan Arkadyevitch’s shoulder, whispering something

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