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Anna Karenina

uneasy, began lowing, but when Levin put the calf close
to her she was soothed, and, sighing heavily, began licking
her with her rough tongue. The calf, fumbling, poked her
nose under her mother’s udder, and stiffened her tail out

straight.
‘Here, bring the light, Fyodor, this way,’ said Levin,
examining the calf. ‘Like the mother! though the color
takes after the father; but that’s nothing. Very good. Long
and broad in the haunch. Vassily Fedorovitch, isn’t she
splendid?’ he said to the bailiff, quite forgiving him for the
buckwheat under the influence of his delight in the calf.
‘How could she fail to be? Oh, Semyon the contractor
came the day after you left. You must settle with him,
Konstantin Dmitrievitch,’ said the bailiff. ‘I did inform
you about the machine.’
This question was enough to take Levin back to all the
details of his work on the estate, which was on a large
scale, and complicated. He went straight from the
cowhouse to the counting house, and after a little
conversation with the bailiff and Semyon the contractor,
he went back to the house and straight upstairs to the
drawing room.

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