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Anna Karenina

‘Yes, tell me what’s going on at Pokrovskoe. Is the
house standing still, and the birch trees, and our
schoolroom? And Philip the gardener, is he living? How I
remember the arbor and the seat! Now mind and don’t

alter anything in the house, but make haste and get
married, and make everything as it used to be again. Then
I’ll come and see you, if your wife is nice.’
‘But come to me now,’ said Levin. ‘How nicely we
would arrange it!’
I’d come and see you if I were sure I should not find
Sergey Ivanovitch.’
‘You wouldn’t find him there. I live quite
independently of him.’
‘Yes, but say what you like, you will have to choose
between me and him,’ he said, looking timidly into his
brother’s face.
This timidity touch Konstantin.
‘If you want to hear my confession of faith on the
subject, I tell you that in your quarrel with Sergey
Ivanovitch I take neither side. You’re both wrong. You’re
more wrong externally, and he inwardly.’
‘Ah, ah! You see that, you see that!’ Nikolay shouted
joyfully.

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