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Anna Karenina

He was not a quarter of a mile from home when he
saw Grisha and Tanya running to meet him.
‘Uncle Kostya! mamma’s coming, and grandfather, and
Sergey Ivanovitch, and someone else,’ they said,

clambering up into the trap.
‘Who is he?’
‘An awfully terrible person! And he does like this with
his arms,’ said Tanya, getting up in the trap and mimicking
Katavasov.
‘Old or young?’ asked Levin, laughing, reminded of
someone, he did not know whom, by Tanya’s
performance.
‘Oh, I hope it’s not a tiresome person!’ thought Levin.
As soon as he turned, at a bend in the road, and saw the
party coming, Levin recognized Katavasov in a straw hat,
walking along swinging his arms just as Tanya had shown
him. Katavasov was very fond of discussing metaphysics,
having derived his notions from natural science writers
who had never studied metaphysics, and in Moscow Levin
had had many arguments with him of late.
And one of these arguments, in which Katavasov had
obviously considered that he came off victorious, was the
first thing Levin thought of as he recognized him.

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