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Anna Karenina

he sat down to dinner simply so as not to hurt Kouzma’s
feelings, yet when he began to eat the dinner struck him as
extraordinarily good. Sergey Ivanovitch watched him with
a smile.

‘Oh, by the way, there’s a letter for you,’ said he.
‘Kouzma, bring it down, please. And mind you shut the
doors.’
The letter was from Oblonsky. Levin read it aloud.
Oblonsky wrote to him from Petersburg: ‘I have had a
letter from Dolly; she’s at Ergushovo, and everything
seems going wrong there. Do ride over and see her,
please; help her with advice; you know all about it. She
will be so glad to see you. She’s quite alone, poor thing.
My mother-in-law and all of them are still abroad.’
‘That’s capital! I will certainly ride over to her,’ said
Levin. ‘Or we’ll go together. She’s such a splendid
woman, isn’t she?’
‘They’re not far from here, then?’
‘Twenty-five miles. Or perhaps it is thirty. But a capital
road. Capital, we’ll drive over.’
‘I shall be delighted,’ said Sergey Ivanovitch, still
smiling. The sight of his younger brother’s appearance had
immediately put him in a good humor.

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