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Anna Karenina

hands, and opening it, began to get ready his expensive
new-fashioned gun. Kouzma, who already scented a big
tip, never left Stepan Arkadyevitch’s side, and put on him
both his stockings and boots, a task which Stepan

Arkadyevitch readily left him.
‘Kostya, give orders that if the merchant Ryabinin
comes...I told him to come today, he’s to be brought in
and to wait for me..’
‘Why, do you mean to say you’re selling the forest to
Ryabinin?’
‘Yes. Do you know him?’
‘To be sure I do. I have had to do business with him,
‘positively and conclusively.’’
Stepan Arkadyevitch laughed. ‘Positively and
conclusively’ were the merchant’s favorite words.
‘Yes, it’s wonderfully funny the way he talks. She
knows where her master’s going!’ he added, patting Laska,
who hung about Levin, whining and licking his hands, his
boots, and his gun.
The trap was already at the steps when they went out.
‘I told them to bring the trap round; or would you
rather walk?’
‘No, we’d better drive,’ said Stepan Arkadyevitch,
getting into the trap. He sat down, tucked the tiger-skin

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