Levin read in the queer, familiar handwriting:

“I humbly beg you to leave me in peace. That’s the only favor I ask of my gracious brothers.⁠—

Nikolay Levin

.”

“I humbly beg you to leave me in peace. That’s the only favor I ask of my gracious brothers.⁠— Nikolay Levin .”

Levin read it, and without raising his head stood with the note in his hands opposite Sergey Ivanovitch.

There was a struggle in his heart between the desire to forget his unhappy brother for the time, and the consciousness that it would be base to do so.