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"Yes, I shall certainly go," replied Levin; "though I fancied the

princess was not very warm in her invitation"

"What nonsense! That's her rande da, too, but I have to go to the Countess Bonina's rehearsal

Coe? How do you explain the

sudden way in which you vanished froI know is that you always do what no one else

does"

"Yes," said Levin, slowly and with eeness is not in having gone away, but in

co no I have come"

"Oh, what a lucky fellow you are!" broke in Stepan Arkadyevitch,

looking into Levin's eyes

"Why?"

"I know a gallant steed by tokens sure,

And by his eyes I know a youth in love," declai is before you"

"Why, is it over for you already?"

"No; not over exactly, but the future is yours, and the present

is ht be"

"How so?"

"Oh, things go wrong But I don't want to talk of myself, and

besides I can't explain it all," said Stepan Arkadyevitch