"I have no right whatever to know family matters, and, to tell the truth, no interest in them either.

" Stepan Arkadyevitch smiled hardly perceptibly, catching the instantaneous change he knew so well in Levin's face, which had become as gloomy as it had been bright a minute before.

"Have you quite settled about the forest with Ryabinin?" asked Levin.

"Yes, it's settled.

The price is magnificent; thirty-eight thousand.