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answer, and listened, not without pleasure, to the
landowner’s comic speeches.
The gentleman with the gray whiskers was obviously
an inveterate adherent of serfdom and a devoted
agriculturist, who had lived all his life in the country.
Levin saw proofs of this in his dress, in the old-fashioned
threadbare coat, obviously not his everyday attire, in his
shrewd deep-set eyes, in his idiomatic, fluent Russian, in
the imperious tone that had become habitual from long
use, and in the resolute gestures of his large, red, sunburnt
hands, with an old betrothal ring on the little finger.
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