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Levin, and tearing the leaves and flowers off the lie unsee on one side--acacias, flowers,

burdocks, long grass, and tall tree-tops The peasant girls

working in the garden ran shrieking into shelter in the servants'

quarters The strea its white veil

over all the distant forest and half the fields close by, and was

rapidly swooping down upon the copse The wet of the rain

spurting up in tiny drops could be s his head bent down before hi with the

wind that strove to tear the wraps away froht sight of so

white behind the oak tree, when there was a sudden flash, the

whole earth see overhead Opening his blinded eyes, Levin gazed through

the thick veil of rain that separated hi he saas the green crest of the

fa

its position "Can it have been struck?" Levin hardly had ti more and more rapidly, the oak tree

vanished behind the other trees, and he heard the crash of the

great tree falling upon the others