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But again Veslovsky persuaded him, and again, the marsh being a narrow one, Levin as a hospitable host remained with the vehicles.
He handed the reins to Veslovsky and went into the marsh.
A small marsh bird only diverted her attention for an instant.
After making sure he had missed, he turned and saw that the trap and horses were no longer on the road but in the marsh.
Veslovsky, wishing to watch the shooting, had driven into the marsh, where the horses had stuck fast.
Levin was rather afraid Veslovsky would tire out the horses, especially the roan on the left, whom he did not know how to hold in; but he could not resist Veslovsky's high spirits, the songs he sang all the way while sitting on the box, the stories he told, and his representation of the English way of driving four-in-hand; and after lunch they were all in the best of spirits when they reached the Gvozdevo marsh.
CHAPTER XVESLOVSKY DROVE SO FAST that they arrived at the marsh too soon, while it was still hot.
When they got to the real marsh, the object of their journey, Levin involuntarily wished to rid himself of Vasenka and go about unhindered.
'Well, what shall we do...?It's a splendid marsh, and I see there are hawks too,' said Oblonsky, pointing at two large birds circling above the sedges.
'The marsh begins here, just in front of us: you can see, where it is greener?
They had hardly entered the marsh when both dogs began searching together and started off toward a rusty-looking spot in the marsh.
'Veslovsky, walk beside me – beside me!' he whispered with bated breath to his comrade, who was splashing in the water behind him, and the direction of whose gun, after the accidental shot by the Kolpensky marsh, involuntarily interested Levin.
Vasenka had fired into a flight of ducks that were circling above the marsh far out of range and were at that moment flying straight toward the sportsmen.
Meanwhile from the opposite side of the marsh came not frequent but, as it seemed to Levin, significant reports from Oblonsky's gun, followed almost every time by a cry to the dog, 'Krak!
Not two but dozens of hawks now soared above the marsh.
Having traversed more than half the marsh, Levin and Veslovsky came to a spot where the peasants' meadow land was divided into long strips, the ends abutting on the sedge and separated by narrow lines where the grass had been trodden down or cut.
Go, you'll find the way to the mill!' cried Levin, and on looking round was pleased to see Veslovsky making his way out of the marsh toward the peasants, stooping and stumbling with his weary feet and holding his gun at arm's length.
His weariness vanished, at once he went easily through the marsh toward the dog.
I must pull myself together,' he thought, picked up his gun and hat, called Laska to heel, and got out of the marsh.
When he reached a dry place he sat down on a hummock, took off his boot and emptied it, then went back to the marsh, drank a little of the rusty water, wetted the heated barrels and bathed his face and hands.
He had only five birds in his bag when he came out of the marsh by the alder grove where he was to meet Oblonsky.
Krak, quite black with smelly marsh slime, sprang out from beneath the upturned root of an alder with the air of a conqueror and sniffed at Laska.
'A famous marsh!
Oblonsky spoke of the marshes which Malthus had leased in the Province of Tver, of how they were preserved, of the vehicles – dog-carts – in which the sportsmen were driven thither, and of the marquee that was set up for lunch beside the marsh.
Can I get to the marsh this way?''Straight along at the back of the huts, past our threshing floors, my dear; and then through the hemp-field.
'Go straight on, and you'll step right into the marsh.
He did not wish the sun to rise before he reached the marsh.
They all came from behind the wattle fence of an apiary, and flying across the hemp-field disappeared in the direction of the marsh.
The path led him straight to the marsh, which was recognizable by the mist rising from it, thicker at one spot and thinner at another, so that the sedge and willow bushes looked like islets swaying in the mist.
At the edge of the marsh the peasant boys and men who had pastured their horses in the night lay, covered with their coats, having fallen asleep at daybreak.
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