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"Of course it is"

"What is your discussion about today?" asked Levin, never ceasing

s Levin heard the secretary

hesitatingly read the minutes which he obviously did not himself

understand; but Levin saw froood,

nice, kind-hearted person he was This was evident fro the minutes Then the

discussion began They were disputing about theof certain pipes, and Sergey

Ivanovitch was very cutting to two th with an air of triu on a bit of paper, began timidly at first,

but afterwards answered hihtfully And

then Sviazhsky (he was there too) said so too, very

handsomely and nobly Levin listened to the su real,

and that they were not at all angry, but were all the nicest,

kindest people, and everything was as happy and char the it What struck Levin was that he could see through

thens knew

the soul of each, and saw distinctly that they were all good at

heart And Levin himself in particular they were all extremely

fond of that day That was evident from the way they spoke to

him, from the friendly, affectionate way even those he did not

know looked at hiey Ivanovitch asked hi! Capital!

Splendid!"