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In the

he reached hohbors about politics and the new railways, and, just as in

Moscow, he was overcome by a sense of confusion of ideas,

dissatisfaction with hiot out at his own station, when he saw his one-eyed

coachnat, with the collar of his coat turned up; when, in

the diht reflected by the station fires, he saw his own

sledge, his own horses with their tails tied up, in their harness

trinat, as he

put in his luggage, told hie news, that the

contractor had arrived, and that Pava had calved,--he felt that

little by little the confusion was clearing up, and the sha away He felt this at the nat and the horses; but when he had put on the

sheepskin brought for hie,

and had driven off pondering on the work that lay before hi at the side-horse, that had been his

saddle-horse, past his prian to see what had happened to hiht He felt himself, and did not want to be any one

else All he wanted noas to be better than before In the

first place he resolved that fro for any extraordinary happiness, such as iven him, and consequently he would not so disdain what he

really had Secondly, he would never again let hiive way

to low passion, theup his

his brother Nikolay, he resolved to hiet hiht of hio ill with him And that would be soon, he felt Then, too,

his brother's talk of cohtly

at the time, now made him think He considered a revolution in

economic conditions nonsense But he always felt the injustice

of his own abundance in comparison with the poverty of the

peasants, and now he deterh he had worked hard and lived by no means

luxuriously before, he would noork still harder, and would

allow himself even less luxury And all this seemed to him so

easy a conquest over himself that he spent the whole drive in the

pleasantest daydrea of hope in a new,

better life, he reached hoht

The snow of the little quadrangle before the house was lit up by

a light in the bedrooafea

Mihalovna, who performed the duties of housekeeper in his house

She was not yet asleep Kouz

sleepily out onto the steps A setter bitch, Laska, ran out too,

al, turned round about Levin's

knees, ju, to put her

forepaws on his chest

"You're soon back again, sir," said Agafea Mihalovna

"I got tired of it, Agafea Mihalovna With friends, one is well;

but at home, one is better," he answered, and went into his

study

The study was slowly lit up as the candle was brought in The

fa's horns, the bookshelves,

the looking-glass, the stove with its ventilator, which had long

wanted e table, on the table an

open book, a broken ash tray, aAs he saw all this, there came over hi the new life, of