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The house was big and old-fashioned, and Levin, though he lived

alone, had the whole house heated and used He knew that this

was stupid, he knew that it was positively not right, and

contrary to his present new plans, but this house was a whole

world to Levin It was the world in which his father and mother

had lived and died They had lived just the life that to Levin

seeinning with his wife, his family

Levin scarcely remembered his mother His conception of her was

for him a sacred ination a repetition of that exquisite, holy ideal of a

wo of love for woe that he positively pictured to himself first the faive hie were, consequently, quite unlike those of the

greatmarried was

one of the numerous facts of social life For Levin it was the

chief affair of life, on which its whole happiness turned And

now he had to give up that

When he had gone into the little drawing room, where he always

had tea, and had settled hiafea Mihalovna had brought him tea, and with her usual,

"Well, I'll stay a while, sir," had taken a chair in the ,