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He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in

the world. There was only one creature in the world that could

concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It

was she. It was Kitty. He understood that she was driving to

Ergushovo from the railway station. And everything that had been

stirring Levin during that sleepless night, all the resolutions

he had made, all vanished at once. He recalled with horror his

dreams of marrying a peasant girl. There only, in the carriage

that had crossed over to the other side of the road, and was

rapidly disappearing, there only could he find the solution of

the riddle of his life, which had weighed so agonizingly upon him

of late.