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Anna Karenina

Chapter 8

When the professor had gone, Sergey Ivanovitch
turned to his brother.
‘Delighted that you’ve come. For some time, is it?
How’s your farming getting on?’
Levin knew that his elder brother took little interest in
farming, and only put the question in deference to him,
and so he only told him about the sale of his wheat and
money matters.
Levin had meant to tell his brother of his determination
to get married, and to ask his advice; he had indeed firmly
resolved to do so. But after seeing his brother, listening to
his conversation with the professor, hearing afterwards the
unconsciously patronizing tone in which his brother
questioned him about agricultural matters (their mother’s
property had not been divided, and Levin took charge of
both their shares), Levin felt that he could not for some
reason begin to talk to him of his intention of marrying.
He felt that his brother would not look at it as he would
have wished him to.

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