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had always disliked him Her invariable and favorite pursuit,

when theyfun of hiht of his

grandeur, or breaks off his learned conversation withto lad he can't bear ht, for Levin actually could not bear her, and

despised her for what she was proud of and regarded as a fine

characteristic--her nervousness, her delicate conte coarse and earthly

The Countess Nordston and Levin got into that relation with one

another not seldom seen in society, when two persons, who remain

externally on friendly terree

that they cannot even take each other seriously, and cannot even

be offended by each other

The Countess Nordston pounced upon Levin at once

"Ah, Konstantin Dmitrievitch! So you've co hi what he had chanced to say early in the winter, that

Moscoas a Babylon "Coenerated?" she added, glancing with a si for me, countess, that you remember my

words so well," responded Levin, who had succeeded in recovering

his composure, and at once fro hostility to the Countess Nordston "They reat impression on you"