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Sviazhsky went up to Levin and invited him to come round to tea

with him Levin was utterly at a loss to comprehend or recall

what it was he had disliked in Sviazhsky, what he had failed to

find in hiood-hearted hted," he said, and asked after his wife and

sister-in-law And froination the idea of Sviazhsky's sister-in-laas

connected with e, it occurred to him that there was no one

to whom he could lad to go and see them

Sviazhsky questioned hi, as he always did, that there was no possibility of

doing anything not done already in Europe, and now this did not

in the least annoy Levin On the contrary, he felt that

Sviazhsky was right, that the whole business was of little value,

and he saw the wonderful softness and consideration hich

Sviazhsky avoided fully expressing his correct view The ladies

of the Sviazhsky household were particularly delightful It

seemed to Levin that they knew all about it already and

sy merely from delicacy He

stayed with the of all sorts of

subjects but the one thing that filled his heart, and did not

observe that he was boring the

past their bedtime