Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

720 721 solicitous tenderness laid the crossed fingers on the bowed head of Kitty. Then he gave them the candles, and taking the ...

722 723 herself to him without a word—on that day, at that hour, there took place in her heart a complete severance from all her ...

724 725 Chapter 5. In the church there was all Moscow, all the friends and relations; and during the ceremony of plighting troth ...

726 727 “You expected it, I suppose?” “Almost. She always cared for him.” “Well, we shall see which of them will step on the rug ...

728 729 Chapter 6. When the ceremony of plighting troth was over, the beadle spread before the lectern in the middle of the chur ...

730 731 and congratulated the young people. Levin looked at Kitty, and he had never before seen her look as she did. She was cha ...

732 733 ears, and was brushed back covering the bald patch on his head. And glancing casually at the gentleman, who still stood ...

734 735 exactly how they did look at it, both he and they would have been greatly puzzled to answer. In reality, those who in Vr ...

736 737 launched into a long and heated explanation of his views. Vronsky at the first moment felt embarrassed at not even knowi ...

738 739 Chapter 8. Anna, in that first period of her emancipation and rapid return to health, felt herself unpardonably happy an ...

740 741 aptitude for a political career, in which he would have been certain to play a leading part—he had sacrificed his ambiti ...

742 743 Chapter 9. The old neglected palazzo, with its lofty carved ceilings and fres- coes on the walls, with its floors of mos ...

744 745 “Why mine?” said Anna. “After yours I don’t want another por- trait. Better have one of Annie” (so she called her baby g ...

746 747 Chapter 10. The artist Mihailov was, as always, at work when the cards of Count Vronsky and Golenishtchev were brought t ...

748 749 right.” And having made peace with his wife he put on an olive-green overcoat with a velvet collar and a hat, and went t ...

750 751 Chapter 11. On entering the studio, Mihailov once more scanned his visitors and noted down in his imagination Vronsky’s ...

752 753 Pilate’s retinue and the face of John watching what was happening. Every face that, with such agony, such blunders and c ...

754 755 she liked that expression most of all, and she felt that it was the center of the picture, and so praise of it would be ...

756 757 “If one looked one would find others. But the point is that art cannot suffer doubt and discussion. And before the pictu ...

758 759 blue eyes. What was he thinking of? The enthusiasm over this picture stirred some of the old feeling for it in Mihailov, ...