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"Ah, countess, you really must take me, for pity's sake do take

me to see them! I have never seen anything extraordinary, though

I am always on the lookout for it everywhere," said Vronsky,

smiling.

"Very well, next Saturday," answered Countess Nordston. "But you,

Konstantin Dmitrievitch, do you believe in it?" she asked Levin.

"Why do you ask me? You know what I shall say."

"But I want to hear your opinion."

"My opinion," answered Levin, "is only that this table-turning

simply proves that educated society-so called-is no higher than

the peasants. They believe in the evil eye, and in witchcraft and

omens, while we...."

"Oh, then you don't believe in it?"

"I can't believe in it, countess."

"But if I've seen it myself?"

"The peasant women too tell us they have seen goblins."

"Then you think I tell a lie?"

And she laughed a mirthless laugh.