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Levin elass, and they were silent for a while

"There's one other thing I ought to tell you Do you know

Vronsky?" Stepan Arkadyevitch asked Levin

"No, I don't Why do you ask?"

"Give us another bottle," Stepan Arkadyevitch directed the Tatar,

as filling up their glasses and fidgeting round them just

when he was not wanted

"Why you ought to know Vronsky is that he's one of your rivals"

"Who's Vronsky?" said Levin, and his face was suddenly

transformed from the look of childlike ecstasy which Oblonsky had

just been adry and unpleasant expression

"Vronsky is one of the sons of Count Kirill Ivanovitch Vronsky,

and one of the finest speci I made his acquaintance in Tver when I was there on

official business, and he came there for the levy of recruits

Fearfully rich, handsoreat connections, an aide-de-caood-natured fellow But he's ood-natured fellow, as I've found out here--he's

a cultivated ent; he's a man who'll

make his mark"