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"No; I don't know whether you know it or not, but I don't care.

And I tell you-I did make an offer and was rejected, and Katerina

Alexandrovna is nothing now to me but a painful and humiliating

reminiscence."

"What ever for? What nonsense!"

"But we won't talk about it. Please forgive me, if I've been

nasty," said Levin. Now that he had opened his heart, he became

as he had been in the morning. "You're not angry with me, Stiva?

Please don't be angry," he said, and smiling, he took his hand.

"Of course not; not a bit, and no reason to be. I'm glad we've

spoken openly. And do you know, stand-shooting in the morning is

unusually good-why not go? I couldn't sleep the night anyway, but

I might go straight from shooting to the station."

"Capital."

Chapter 18