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In his student days he had all but been in love with the eldest,

Dolly, but she was soon

in love with the second He felt, as it were, that he had to be

in love with one of the sisters, only he could not quite make out

which But Natalia, too, had hardly made her appearance in the

world when she married the diplomat Lvov Kitty was still a

child when Levin left the university Young Shtcherbatsky went

into the navy, was drowned in the Baltic, and Levin's relations

with the Shtcherbatskys, in spite of his friendship with

Oblonsky, became less intimate But when early in the winter of

this year Levin came to Moscow, after a year in the country, and

saw the Shtcherbatskys, he realized which of the three sisters he

was indeed destined to love

One would have thought that nothing could be siood family, rather rich than poor, and thirty-two

years old, to e; in all likelihood he would at once have been looked

upon as a good match But Levin was in love, and so it seemed to

him that Kitty was so perfect in every respect that she was a