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Anna Karenina

his friend Sviazhsky, who had splendid marshes for grouse
in his neighborhood, and had lately written to ask him to
keep a long-standing promise to stay with him. The
grouse-marsh, in the Surovsky district, had long tempted

Levin, but he had continually put off this visit on account
of his work on the estate. Now he was glad to get away
from the neighborhood of the Shtcherbatskys, and still
more from his farm work, especially on a shooting
expedition, which always in trouble served as the best
consolation.

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