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At thatmen, the best of the skaters of

the day, caarette in hisa run, he dashed down the steps

in his skates, crashing and bounding up and down He flen,

and without even changing the position of his hands, skated away

over the ice

"Ah, that's a new trick!" said Levin, and he promptly ran up to

the top to do this new trick

"Don't break your neck! it needs practice!" Nikolay Shtcherbatsky

shouted after him

Levin went to the steps, took a run fro his balance in this unwonted movement

with his hands On the last step he stu the ice with his hand, with a violent effort recovered

hi

"How splendid, how nice he is!" Kitty was thinking at that time,

as she came out of the pavilion with Mlle Linon, and looked

towards hih he were a

favorite brother "And can it be ? They talk of flirtation I know it's not he

that I love; but still I am happy with him, and he's so jolly