"I'm a nice person! Why, that's just what I came for! You simply

must come to dinner with us today. Your brother's coming, and

Karenin, my brother-in-law."

"You don't mean to say he's here?" said Levin, and he wanted to

inquire about Kitty. He had heard at the beginning of the winter

that she was at Petersburg with her sister, the wife of the

diplomat, and he did not know whether she had come back or not;

but he changed his mind and did not ask. "Whether she's coming

or not, I don't care," he said to himself.

"So you'll come?"

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"Of course."

"At five o'clock, then, and not evening dress."

And Stepan Arkadyevitch got up and went down below to the new

head of his department. Instinct had not misled Stepan

Arkadyevitch. The terrible new head turned out to be an

extremely amenable person, and Stepan Arkadyevitch lunched with

him and stayed on, so that it was four o'clock before he got to

Alexey Alexandrovitch.




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