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Tonight I'll be reading part one chapters 11 and 12 of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.

So let your eyes fall heavy and your breath soften as we settle in for a peaceful night's sleep.

Chapter 11

Levin emptied his glass and they were silent for a while.

There's one other thing I ought to tell you. Do you know Faronsky? Stepanna, catch of it, just Levin.

No, I don't. Why do you ask?

Give us another bottle. Stepanna, catch of it, directed the tater who was filling up their glasses and fidgeting around them just when he was not wanted.

Why you ought to know Faronsky is that he's one of your rivals.

Whose Faronsky said Levin and his face was suddenly transformed from the look of a child like ecstasy which a Blonsky had just been admiring to an angry and unpleasant expression.

Faronsky is one of the sons of Count Kirill Ivanovich Faronsky and one of the finest specimens of the gilded youth of Petersburg.

I made his acquaintance in Traver when I was there on official business and he came there for the levy of recruits.

Fearfully rich, handsome, great connections and aid to camp and with all that are very nice, good-natured fellow.

But he's more than simply a good-natured fellow as I've found out here.

He's a cultivated man too and very intelligent. He's a man who'll make his mark.

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