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Anna and Vronsky had long been exchanging glances, regretting

their friend's flow of cleverness At last Vronsky, without

waiting for the artist, walked away to another sem! How

exquisite!" they cried with one voice

"What is it they're so pleased with?" thought Mihailov He had

positively forgotten that picture he had painted three years ago

He had forgotten all the agonies and the ecstasies he had lived

through with that picture when for several ht He had forgotten, as he

always forgot, the pictures he had finished He did not even

like to look at it, and had only brought it out because he was

expecting an Englishman anted to buy it

"Oh, that's only an old study," he said

"How fine!" said Golenishtchev, he too, with un under the spell of the picture

Two boys were angling in the shade of a -tree The elder

had just dropped in the hook, and was carefully pulling the float

fro The

other, a little younger, was lying in the grass leaning on his