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Levin went into the pen, looked Pava over, and lifted the red and

spotted calf onto her long, tottering legs. Pava, uneasy, began

lowing, but when Levin put the calf close to her she was soothed,

and, sighing heavily, began licking her with her rough tongue.

The calf, fumbling, poked her nose under her mother's udder, and

stiffened her tail out straight.

"Here, bring the light, Fyodor, this way," said Levin, examining

the calf. "Like the mother! though the color takes after the

father; but that's nothing. Very good. Long and broad in the

haunch. Vassily Fedorovitch, isn't she splendid?" he said to the

bailiff, quite forgiving him for the buckwheat under the

influence of his delight in the calf.

"How could she fail to be? Oh, Semyon the contractor came the day

after you left. You must settle with him, Konstantin

Dmitrievitch," said the bailiff. "I did inform you about the

machine."