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"Delighted," said the veteran

"I have the honor of knowing your brother, Sergey Ivanovitch,"

said Grinevitch, holding out his slender hand with its long

nails

Levin frowned, shook hands coldly, and at once turned to

Oblonsky Though he had a great respect for his half-brother, an

author well known to all Russia, he could not endure it when

people treated him not as Konstantin Levin, but as the brother of

the celebrated Koznishev

"No, I aer a district councilor I have quarreled with

thes anyto Oblonsky

"You've been quick about it!" said Oblonsky with a s story I will tell you so him at once "Well, to put it shortly, I was

convinced that nothing was really done by the district councils,

or ever could be," he began, as though so; they play at being a

parliah to find

as; and on the other side" (he stammered)

"it's a means for the coterie of the district to make money

Formerly they had wardships, courts of justice, now they have the