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ey Ivanovitch interrupted him

"We Russians are always like that Perhaps it's our strong

point, really, the faculty of seeing our own shortcos; but we

overdo it, we comfort ourselves with irony which ays have

on the tip of our tongues All I say is, give such rights as our

local self-government to any other European people--why, the

Gerlish would have worked their way to freedom

from them, while we simply turn them into ridicule"

"But how can it be helped?" said Levin penitently "It was my

last effort And I did try with all ood at it"

"It's not that you're no good at it," said Sergey Ivanovitch; "it

is that you don't look at it as you should"

"Perhaps not," Levin answered dejectedly

"Oh! do you know brother Nikolay's turned up again?"

This brother Nikolay was the elder brother of Konstantin Levin,

and half-brother of Sergey Ivanovitch; a reater part of his fortune, was living in the

strangest and lowest company, and had quarreled with his

brothers