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And Levin remembered a scene he had lately witnessed between

Dolly and her children The children, left to the raspberries over the candles and squirting e Theirtheave to the grown-up people, and that

this trouble was all for their sake, and that if they s to drink their tea out of, and that

if they wasted the er

And Levin had been struck by the passive, weary incredulity with

which the children heard what their mother said to the play had been interrupted,

and did not believe a word of what theirThey

could not believe it indeed, for they could not take in the

immensity of all they habitually enjoyed, and so could not

conceive that what they were destroying was the very thing they

lived by

"That all co

interesting or important about it because it has always been so,

and alill be so And it's all always the same We've no

need to think about that, it's all ready But ant to invent

so