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expression. Telling the driver not to stop, he ran along beside her.
“For two hours, then? Not more?” she inquired. “You should let
Pyotr Dmitrievitch know, but don’t hurry him. And get some opium at
the chemist’s.”
“So you think that it may go on well? Lord have mercy on us and
help us!” Levin said, seeing his own horse driving out of the gate.
Jumping into the sledge beside Konzma, he told him to drive to the
doctor’s.
Chapter 14.
The doctor was not yet up, and the footman said that “he had been
up late, and had given orders not to be waked, but would get up soon.”
The footman was cleaning the lamp-chimneys, and seemed very busy
about them. This concentration of the footman upon his lamps, and his
indifference to what was passing in Levin, at first astounded him, but
immediately on considering the question he realized that no one knew
or was bound to know his feelings, and that it was all the more neces-
sary to act calmly, sensibly, and resolutely to get through this wall of
indifference and attain his aim.
“Don’t be in a hurry or let anything slip,” Levin said to himself,
feeling a greater and greater flow of physical energy and attention to all
that lay before him to do.
Having ascertained that the doctor was not getting up, Levin con-
sidered various plans, and decided on the following one: that Konzma
should go for another doctor, while he himself should go to the chemist’s
for opium, and if when he came back the doctor had not yet begun to
get up, he would either by tipping the footman, or by force, wake the
doctor at all hazards.
At the chemist’s the lank shopman sealed up a packet of powders
for a coachman who stood waiting, and refused him opium with the
same callousness with which the doctor’s footman had cleaned his