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His ears were filled with the incessant hu bee flying quickly off, then the

blaring of the lazy drone, and the excited buzz of the bees on

guard protecting their property fro On the farther side of the fence the old bee-keeper was

shaving a hoop for a tub, and he did not see Levin Levin stood

still in the lad of a chance to be alone to recover from the influence

of ordinary actual life, which had already depressed his happy

ht that he had already had time to lose his temper

with Ivan, to show coolness to his brother, and to talk

flippantly with Katavasov

"Can it have been only a moht But the saht that so new and important

had happened to him Real life had only for a time overcast the

spiritual peace he had found, but it was still untouched within

hi hi complete

physical peace, forced him to restrain his movements to avoid

them, so had the petty cares that had swarot into the trap restricted his spiritual freedo theth was still unaffected, in spite of the bees, so

too was the spiritual strength that he had just become aware of