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Anna Karenina

Chapter 15

The streets were still empty. Levin went to the house
of the Shtcherbatskys. The visitors’ doors were closed and
everything was asleep. He walked back, went into his
room again, and asked for coffee. The day servant, not
Yegor this time, brought it to him. Levin would have
entered into conversation with him, but a bell rang for the
servant, and he went out. Levin tried to drink coffee and
put some roll in his mouth, but his mouth was quite at a
loss what to do with the roll. Levin, rejecting the roll, put
on his coat and went out again for a walk. It was nine
o’clock when he reached the Shtcherbatskys’ steps the
second time. In the house they were only just up, and the
cook came out to go marketing. He had to get through at
least two hours more.
All that night and morning Levin lived perfectly
unconsciously, and felt perfectly lifted out of the
conditions of material life. He had eaten nothing for a
whole day, he had not slept for two nights, had spent
several hours undressed in the frozen air, and felt not
simply fresher and stronger than ever, but felt utterly
independent of his body; he moved without muscular

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