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Anna Karenina

them later. One was from Sokolov, his bailiff. Sokolov
wrote that the corn could not be sold, that it was fetching
only five and a half roubles, and that more than that could
not be got for it. The other letter was from his sister. She

scolded him for her business being still unsettled.
‘Well, we must sell it at five and a half if we can’t get
more,’ Levin decided the first question, which had always
before seemed such a weighty one, with extraordinary
facility on the spot. ‘It’s extraordinary how all one’s time is
taken up here,’ he thought, considering the second letter.
He felt himself to blame for not having got done what his
sister had asked him to do for her. ‘Today, again, I’ve not
been to the court, but today I’ve certainly not had time.’
And resolving that he would not fail to do it next day, he
went up to his wife. As he went in, Levin rapidly ran
through mentally the day he had spent. All the events of
the day were conversations, conversations he had heard
and taken part in. All the conversations were upon subjects
which, if he had been alone at home, he would never
have taken up, but here they were very interesting. And
all these conversations were right enough, only in two
places there was something not quite right. One was what
he had said about the carp, the other was something not

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