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Anna Karenina

Tyndall of his complacent satisfaction in the cleverness of
his experiments, and for his lack of philosophic insight.
And suddenly there floated into his mind the joyful
thought: ‘In two years’ time I shall have two Dutch cows;

Pava herself will perhaps still be alive, a dozen young
daughters of Berkoot and the three others—how lovely!’
He took up his book again. ‘Very good, electricity and
heat are the same thing; but is it possible to substitute the
one quantity for the other in the equation for the solution
of any problem? No. Well, then what of it? The
connection between all the forces of nature is felt
instinctively.... It’s particulary nice if Pava’s daughter
should be a red-spotted cow, and all the herd will take
after her, and the other three, too! Splendid! To go out
with my wife and visitors to meet the herd.... My wife
says, Kostya and I looked after that calf like a child.’ ‘How
can it interest you so much?’ says a visitor. ‘Everything
that interests him, interests me.’ But who will she be?’
And he remembered what had happened at Moscow....
‘Well, there’s nothing to be done.... It’s not my fault. But
now everything shall go on in a new way. It’s nonsense to
pretend that life won’t let one, that the past won’t let one.
One must struggle to live better, much better.’... He raised
his head, and fell to dreaming. Old Laska, who had not yet

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