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On entering the drawing roo that he had been detained by that prince, as

always the scapegoat for all his absences and unpunctualities,

and in one uests acquainted with each

other, and, bringing together Alexey Alexandrovitch and Sergey

Koznishev, started them on a discussion of the Russification of

Poland, into which they i Turovtsin on the shoulder, he whispered so comic

in his ear, and set him down by his wife and the old prince

Then he told Kitty she was looking very pretty that evening, and

presented Shtcherbatsky to Karenin In a h that the drawing room became

very lively, and there was a merry buzz of voices Konstantin

Levin was the only person who had not arrived But this was so

room, Stepan

Arkadyevitch found to his horror that the port and sherry had

been procured fro that

the coachman should be sent off as speedily as possible to

Levy's, he was going back to the drawing roo room he was met by Konstantin Levin

"I' late!" said Stepan Arkadyevitch, taking

his arm