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Anna Karenina

Chapter 14

Levin looked before him and saw a herd of cattle, then
he caught sight of his trap with Raven in the shafts, and
the coachman, who, driving up to the herd, said
something to the herdsman. Then he heard the rattle of
the wheels and the snort of the sleek horse close by him.
But he was so buried in his thoughts that he did not even
wonder why the coachman had come for him.
He only thought of that when the coachman had
driven quite up to him and shouted to him. ‘The mistress
sent me. Your brother has come, and some gentleman
with him.’
Levin got into the trap and took the reins. As though
just roused out of sleep, for a long while Levin could not
collect his faculties. He stared at the sleek horse flecked
with lather between his haunches and on his neck, where
the harness rubbed, stared at Ivan the coachman sitting
beside him, and remembered that he was expecting his
brother, thought that his wife was most likely uneasy at his
long absence, and tried to guess who was the visitor who
had come with his brother. And his brother and his wife
and the unknown guest seemed to him now quite

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