These were the only words that had been spoken sincerely between them.
Levin knew that those words meant, "You see, and you know, that I'm in a bad way, and maybe we shall not see each other again.
" Levin knew this, and the tears gushed from his eyes.
He kissed his brother once more, but he could not speak, and knew not what to say.
Three days after his brother's departure, Levin too set off for his foreign tour.