Before there was you--and _this_ too," he added with a glance towards her waist that she understood--"I put all my energies into work; now I can't, and I'm ashamed; I do it just as though it were a task set me, I'm pretending....

" "Well, but would you like to change this minute with Sergey Ivanovitch?" said Kitty.

" Would you like to do this work for the general good, and to love the task set you, as he does, and nothing else?" "Of course not," said Levin.