Anna Karenina - LimpidSoft

PART THREE CHAPTER 24
was impossible, because he could not go; to write that he could not come because
something prevented him, or that he would be away, that was still worse. He sent
the saddle without an answer, and with a sense of having done something shameful;
he handed over all the now revolting business of the estate to the bailiff, and
set off next day to a remote district to see his friend Sviazhsky, who had splendid
marshes for grouse in his neighborhood, and had lately written to ask him to keep
a long-standing promise to stay with him. The grouse-marsh, in the Surovsky district,
had long tempted Levin, but he had continually put off this visit on account
of his work on the estate. Now he was glad to get away from the neighborhood
of the Shtcherbatskys, and still more from his farm work, especially on a shooting
expedition, which always in trouble served as the best consolation.
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