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"Isn't it tio home?" said Stepan Arkadyevitch

It was quite still now in the copse, and not a bird was stirring

"Let's stay a little while," answered Levin

"As you like"

They were standing now about fifteen paces from one another

"Stiva!" said Levin unexpectedly; "how is it you don't tell oing to

be?"

Levin felt so resolute and serene that no answer, he fancied,

could affect him But he had never dreamed of what Stepan

Arkadyevitch replied

"She's never thought of beingof it;

but she's very ill, and the doctors have sent her abroad

They're positively afraid shewith her? How

has she?"

While they were saying this, Laska, with ears pricked up, was