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Anna Karenina

Chapter 26

In the morning Konstantin Levin left Moscow, and
towards evening he reached home. On the journey in the
train he talked to his neighbors about politics and the new
railways, and, just as in Moscow, he was overcome by a
sense of confusion of ideas, dissatisfaction with himself,
shame of something or other. But when he got out at his
own station, when he saw his one-eyed coachman, Ignat,
with the collar of his coat turned up; when, in the dim
light reflected by the station fires, he saw his own sledge,
his own horses with their tails tied up, in their harness
trimmed with rings and tassels; when the coachman Ignat,
as he put in his luggage, told him the village news, that the
contractor had arrived, and that Pava had calved,—he felt
that little by little the confusion was clearing up, and the
shame and self-dissatisfaction were passing away. He felt
this at the mere sight of Ignat and the horses; but when he
had put on the sheepskin brought for him, had sat down
wrapped in the sledge, and had driven off pondering on
the work that lay before him in the village, and staring at
the side-horse, that had been his saddle-horse, past his
prime now, but a spirited beast from the Don, he began to

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