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Anna Karenina

‘No, whatever I do, I won’t argue and give utterance
to my ideas lightly,’ he thought.
Getting out of the trap and greeting his brother and
Katavasov, Levin asked about his wife.

‘She has taken Mitya to Kolok’ (a copse near the
house). ‘She meant to have him out there because it’s so
hot indoors,’ said Dolly. Levin had always advised his wife
not to take the baby to the wood, thinking it unsafe, and
he was not pleased to hear this.
‘She rushes about from place to place with him,’ said
the prince, smiling. ‘I advised her to try putting him in the
ice cellar.’
‘She meant to come to the bee house. She thought you
would be there. We are going there,’ said Dolly.
‘Well, and what are you doing?’ said Sergey Ivanovitch,
falling back from the rest and walking beside him.
‘Oh, nothing special. Busy as usual with the land,’
answered Levin. ‘Well, and what about you? Come for
long? We have been expecting you for such a long time.’
‘Only for a fortnight. I’ve a great deal to do in
Moscow.’
At these words the brothers’ eyes met, and Levin, in
spite of the desire he always had, stronger than ever just
now, to be on affectionate and still more open terms with

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