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Anna Karenina

come and fetch you, and we’ll go and dine somewhere
together.’
‘Capital. So good-bye till then.’
‘Now mind, you’ll forget, I know you, or rush off

home to the country!’ Stepan Arkadyevitch called out
laughing.
‘No, truly!’
And Levin went out of the room, only when he was in
the doorway remembering that he had forgotten to take
leave of Oblonsky’s colleagues.
‘That gentleman must be a man of great energy,’ said
Grinevitch, when Levin had gone away.
‘Yes, my dear boy,’ said Stepan Arkadyevitch, nodding
his head, ‘he’s a lucky fellow! Over six thousand acres in
the Karazinsky district; everything before him; and what
youth and vigor! Not like some of us.’
‘You have a great deal to complain of, haven’t you,
Stepan Arkadyevitch?’
‘Ah, yes, I’m in a poor way, a bad way,’ said Stepan
Arkadyevitch with a heavy sigh.

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