I'm no good at it.

" "It's not that you're no good at it," said Sergey Ivanovitch; "it is that you don't look at it as you should.

" "Perhaps not," Levin answered dejectedly.

"Oh! do you know brother Nikolay's turned up again?" This brother Nikolay was the elder brother of Konstantin Levin, and half-brother of Sergey Ivanovitch; a man utterly ruined, who had dissipated the greater part of his fortune, was living in the strangest and lowest company, and had quarreled with his brothers.

"What did you say?" Levin cried with horror.