Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

760 761 Chapter 13. Mihailov sold Vronsky his picture, and agreed to paint a portrait of Anna. On the day fixed he came and bega ...

762 763 be sure to be envious. Anna’s portrait—the same subject painted from nature both by him and by Mihailov—ought to have sh ...

764 765 Chapter 14. Levin had been married three months. He was happy, but not at all in the way he had expected to be. At every ...

766 767 mistress’s new arrangements. He saw that Kitty was extraordinarily sweet when, laughing and crying, she came to tell him ...

768 769 wrong would mean irritating her still more and making the rupture greater that was the cause of all his suffering. One h ...

770 771 Chapter 15. They had just come back from Moscow, and were glad to be alone. He was sitting at the writing table in his s ...

772 773 question calling for settlement—the question of the organization of agriculture. While he was writing his ideas she was ...

774 775 things. Either I am loath to leave her, or I see she’s dull alone. And I used to think that, before marriage, life was n ...

776 777 away for no fault of hers, and, with touching simplicity, added that though she was in want again, she asked for nothing ...

778 779 understand....” “No; this is awful! To be such a slave!” cried Levin, getting up, and unable to restrain his anger any l ...

780 781 promised that another should be empty by the evening. Feeling angry with his wife because what he had expected had come ...

782 783 lay sideways on the pillow. Levin could see the scanty locks wet with sweat on the temples and tense, transparent-lookin ...

784 785 steps she went quickly to the sick man’s bedside, and going up so that he had not to turn his head, she immediately clas ...

786 787 arouse at all that feeling of horror and loathing that it aroused in her husband, but a desire to act, to find out all t ...

788 789 and seltzer water, with warm milk at a certain temperature. When the doctor had gone away the sick man said something to ...

790 791 Chapter 19. “Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.” So Levin thought ...

792 793 night, Levin sat with hanging head not knowing what to do. Not to speak of supper, of preparing for bed, of considering ...

794 795 but I did not understand him then.” “I can quite, quite believe it. How I feel that we might have been friends!” she sai ...

796 797 times. He said, addressing God, “If Thou dost exist, make this man to recover” (of course this same thing has been repea ...

798 799 thinking deeply and intensely. Levin involuntarily thought with him of what it was that was happening to him now, but in ...