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Anna Karenina

to him, and he held out his hand to Levin with the same
good-humored smile.
‘Very glad to meet you,’ he said. ‘I looked out for you
at the election, but I was told you had gone away.’

‘Yes, I left the same day. We’ve just been talking of
your horse. I congratulate you,’ said Levin. ‘It was very
rapidly run.’
‘Yes; you’ve race horses too, haven’t you?’
‘No, my father had; but I remember and know
something about it.’
‘Where have you dined?’ asked Stepan Arkadyevitch.
‘We were at the second table, behind the columns.’
‘We’ve been celebrating his success,’ said the tall
colonel. ‘It’s his second Imperial prize. I wish I might have
the luck at cards he has with horses. Well, why waste the
precious time? I’m going to the ‘infernal regions,’’ added
the colonel, and he walked away.
‘That’s Yashvin,’ Vronsky said in answer to Turovtsin,
and he sat down in the vacated seat beside them. He drank
the glass offered him, and ordered a bottle of wine. Under
the influence of the club atmosphere or the wine he had
drunk, Levin chatted away to Vronsky of the best breeds
of cattle, and was very glad not to feel the slightest
hostility to this man. He even told him, among other

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