But I'm glad you're in good spirits, and are hunting bears, and working, and interested.

Shtcherbatsky told me another story--he met you--that you were in such a depressed state, talking of nothing but death....

" "Well, what of it? I've not given up thinking of death," said Levin.

" It's true that it's high time I was dead; and that all this is nonsense.