I've a new bodyguard, Marya Vlasyevna,"--this was the midwife, a new and important personage in Levin's domestic life.

" She has come to have a look at me.

She found me perfectly well, and we have kept her till you are back.

All are happy and well, and please, don't be in a hurry to come back, but, if the sport is good, stay another day.

" These two pleasures, his lucky shooting and the letter from his wife, were so great that two slightly disagreeable incidents passed lightly over Levin.