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Anna Karenina

Chapter 15

‘Do you know, Kostya, with whom Sergey Ivanovitch
traveled on his way here?’ said Dolly, doling out
cucumbers and honey to the children; ‘with Vronsky! He’s
going to Servia.’
‘And not alone; he’s taking a squadron out with him at
his own expense,’ said Katavasov.
‘That’s the right thing for him,’ said Levin. ‘Are
volunteers still going out then?’ he added, glancing at
Sergey Ivanovitch.
Sergey Ivanovitch did not answer. He was carefully
with a blunt knife getting a live bee covered with sticky
honey out of a cup full of white honeycomb.
‘I should think sol You should have seen what was
going on at the station yesterday!’ said Katavasov, biting
with a juicy sound into a cucumber.
‘Well, what is one to make of it? For mercy’s sake, do
explain to me, Sergey Ivanovitch, where are all those
volunteers going, whom are they fighting with?’ asked the
old prince, unmistakably taking up a conversation that had
sprung up in Levin’s absence.

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