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Anna Karenina

Levin did not like these words of Darya Alexandrovna’s.
She could not understand how lofty and beyond her it all
was, and she ought not to have dared to allude to it. Levin
said good-bye to them, but, not to be left alone, he

attached himself to his brother.
‘Where are you going?’
‘I’m going to a meeting.’
‘Well, I’ll come with you. May I?’
‘What for? Yes, come along,’ said Sergey Ivanovitch,
smiling. ‘What is the matter with you today?’
‘With me? Happiness is the matter with me!’ said
Levin, letting down the window of the carriage they were
driving in. ‘You don’t mind?—it’s so stifling. It’s happiness
is the matter with me! Why is it you have never married?’
Sergey Ivanovitch smiled.
‘I am very glad, she seems a nice gi...’ Sergey
Ivanovitch was beginning.
‘Don’t say it! don’t say it!’ shouted Levin, clutching at
the collar of his fur coat with both hands, and muffling
him up in it. ‘She’s a nice girl’ were such simple, humble
words, so out of harmony with his feeling.
Sergey Ivanovitch laughed outright a merry laugh,
which was rare with him. ‘Well, anyway, I may say that
I’m very glad of it.’

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