Page 43 (1/1)

Levin sighed andof his own

affairs, and did not hear Oblonsky

And suddenly both of theh they had been dining and drinking together, which should

have drawn the only of his own

affairs, and they had nothing to do with one another Oblonsky

had more than once experienced this extre on after dinner, and he knehat to

do in such cases

"Bill!" he called, and he went into the next room where he

promptly came across an aide-de-camp of his acquaintance and

dropped into conversation with him about an actress and her

protector And at once in the conversation with the aide-de-camp

Oblonsky had a sense of relaxation and relief after the

conversation with Levin, which always put hireat a

mental and spiritual strain

When the Tatar appeared with a bill for twenty-six roubles and

odd kopecks, besides a tip for himself, Levin, ould another

time have been horrified, like any one from the country, at his

share of fourteen roubles, did not notice it, paid, and set off

hoo to the Shtcherbatskys' there to decide

his fate