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him out, went out to dinner, and came here.’ Levin
walked up to a lamppost, read his brother’s address, which
was in his pocketbook, and called a sledge. All the long
way to his brother’s, Levin vividly recalled all the facts

familiar to him of his brother Nikolay’s life. He
remembered how his brother, while at the university, and
for a year afterwards, had, in spite of the jeers of his
companions, lived like a monk, strictly observing all
religious rites, services, and fasts, and avoiding every sort
of pleasure, especially women. And afterwards, how he
had all at once broken out: he had associated with the
most horrible people, and rushed into the most senseless
debauchery. He remembered later the scandal over a boy,
whom he had taken from the country to bring up, and, in
a fit of rage, had so violently beaten that proceedings were
brought against him for unlawfully wounding. Then he
recalled the scandal with a sharper, to whom he had lost
money, and given a promissory note, and against whom
he had himself lodged a complaint, asserting that he had
cheated him. (This was the money Sergey Ivanovitch had
paid.) Then he remembered how he had spent a night in
the lockup for disorderly conduct in the street. He
remembered the shameful proceedings he had tried to get
up against his brother Sergey Ivanovitch, accusing him of

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