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PART SEVEN CHAPTER 4
“Well, come here, you perfect children,” Lvov said to the two handsome boys who
came in, and after bowing to Levin, went up to their father, obviously wishing to ask
him about something.
Levin would have liked to talk to them, to hear what they would say to their father,
but Natalia began talking to him, and then Lvov’s colleague in the service, Mahotin,
walked in, wearing his court uniform, to go with him to meet someone, and a conversation
was kept up without a break upon Herzegovina, Princess Korzinskaya, the
town council, and the sudden death of Madame Apraksina.
Levin even forgot the commission intrusted to him. He recollected it as he was
going into the hall.
“Oh, Kitty told me to talk to you about Oblonsky,” he said, as Lvov was standing
on the stairs, seeing his wife and Levin off.
“Yes, yes, maman wants us, les beaux-frères, to attack him,” he said, blushing. “But
why should I?”
“Well, then, I will attack him,” said Madame Lvova, with a smile, standing in her
white sheepskin cape, waiting till they had finished speaking. “Come, let us go.”
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