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At four o'clock, conscious of his throbbing heart, Levin stepped

out of a hired sledge at the Zoological Gardens, and turned along

the path to the frozen

that he would certainly find her there, as he had seen the

Shtcherbatskys' carriage at the entrance

It was a bright, frosty day Rows of carriages, sledges,

drivers, and police in the approach Crowds of

well-dressed people, with hats bright in the sun, swar the well-swept little paths between the

little houses adorned with carving in the Russian style The old

curly birches of the gardens, all their twigs laden with snow,

looked as though freshly decked in sacred vestround, and kept

saying to himself--"You mustn't be excited, you must be calm

What's the matter with you? What do you want? Be quiet,

stupid," he conjured his heart And the more he tried to compose

himself, the more breathless he found himself An acquaintance

met hinize him He went towards the es as they slipped down or were dragged up,

the rues, and the sounds of round lay

open before his eyes, and at once, amidst all the skaters, he

knew her