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"Now mind, you'll forget, I know you, or rush off home to the

country!" Stepan Arkadyevitch called out laughing.

"No, truly!"

And Levin went out of the room, only when he was in the doorway

remembering that he had forgotten to take leave of Oblonsky's

colleagues.

"That gentleman must be a man of great energy," said Grinevitch,

when Levin had gone away.

"Yes, my dear boy," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, nodding his head,

"he's a lucky fellow! Over six thousand acres in the Karazinsky

district; everything before him; and what youth and vigor! Not

like some of us."

"You have a great deal to complain of, haven't you, Stepan

Arkadyevitch?"

"Ah, yes, I'm in a poor way, a bad way," said Stepan Arkadyevitch

with a heavy sigh.

Chapter 6

When Oblonsky asked Levin what had brought him to town, Levin

blushed, and was furious with himself for blushing, because he

could not answer, "I have come to make your sister-in-law an

offer," though that was precisely what he had come for.