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Anna talked not merely naturally and cleverly, but cleverly and

carelessly, attaching no value to her own ideas and giving great

weight to the ideas of the person she was talking to

The conversation turned on the new movement in art, on the new

illustrations of the Bible by a French artist Vorkuev attacked

the artist for a realism carried to the point of coarseness

Levin said that the French had carried conventionality further

than anyone, and that consequently they see a great merit in the

return to realis they see poetry

Never had anything clever said by Levin given hihted up at once, as at

once she appreciated the thought She laughed

"I laugh," she said, "as one laughs when one sees a very true

portrait What you said so perfectly hits off French art now,

painting and literature too, indeed--Zola, Daudet But perhaps

it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious,

conventional types, and then--all the _coures and begin to invent ures"

"That's perfectly true," said Vorknev

"So you've been at the club?" she said to her brother