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Anna Karenina

‘I’ve been meaning to a long while. Now we shall have
some discussion, we’ll see to that. Have you been reading
Spencer?’
‘No, I’ve not finished reading him,’ said Levin. ‘But I

don’t need him now.’
‘How’s that? that’s interesting. Why so?’
‘I mean that I’m fully convinced that the solution of
the problems that interest me I shall never find in him and
his like. Now..’
But Katavasov’s serene and good-humored expression
suddenly struck him, and he felt such tenderness for his
own happy mood, which he was unmistakably disturbing
by this conversation, that he remembered his resolution
and stopped short.
‘But we’ll talk later on,’ he added. ‘If we’re going to
the bee house, it’s this way, along this little path,’ he said,
addressing them all.
Going along the narrow path to a little uncut meadow
covered on one side with thick clumps of brilliant heart’s-
ease among which stood up here and there tall, dark green
tufts of hellebore, Levin settled his guests in the dense,
cool shade of the young aspens on a bench and some
stumps purposely put there for visitors to the bee house
who might be afraid of the bees, and he went off himself

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