Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

880 881 “I always buy my maids’ dresses myself, of some cheap material,” the princess said, continuing the previous conversation ...

882 883 “Oh, I’m not excited, mamma. I fancy he will make her an offer today.” “Ah, that’s so strange, how and when a man makes ...

884 885 ing onto the terrace. But no one answered him, and he did not repeat the question. “I’m sorry I’ve broken in on your fem ...

886 887 Chapter 3. Kitty was particularly glad of a chance of being alone with her husband, for she had noticed the shade of mor ...

888 889 his wife, in such moments of loving tenderness as now, would under- stand what he meant to say from a hint, and she did ...

890 891 Ivanovitch?” said Kitty. “Would you like to do this work for the general good, and to love the task set you, as he does, ...

892 893 hazel. Walking some forty paces away, Sergey Ivanovitch, knowing he was out of sight, stood still behind a bushy spindle ...

894 895 edge of the wood he saw in the glowing light of the slanting sunbeams the gracious figure of Varenka in her yellow gown ...

896 897 she added, moving apart from the children beside Sergey Ivanovitch. They walked on for some steps in silence. Varenka sa ...

898 899 “Well?” her husband questioned her as they were going home again. “It doesn’t bite,” said Kitty, her smile and manner of ...

900 901 the princess, sighing mournfully. “What nonsense, mamma!” both the daughters fell upon her at once. “How do you suppose ...

902 903 quick in everything, but as soon as he is in society, he either sinks into apathy, or struggles helplessly like a fish o ...

904 905 He looked at the princess, who had been so dear to him a minute before, and he did not like the manner in which she welc ...

906 907 “Yes, really, let’s not go to bed at all! Capital!” Veslovsky chimed in. “Oh, we all know you can do without sleep, and ...

908 909 peculiar amiability. Vassenka meanwhile, utterly unsuspecting the misery his pres- ence had occasioned, got up from the ...

910 911 and would have been even more unable to bring herself to say so to him, and so increase his suffering. “And what can the ...

912 913 Chapter 8. Next day, before the ladies were up, the wagonette and a trap for the shooting party were at the door, and La ...

914 915 matter. Laska, down; go and lie down!” “Put it with the herd of oxen,” he said to the herdsman, who was waiting for him ...

916 917 importance in himself that could not be disputed, because he had long nails and a stylish cap, and everything else to co ...

918 919 Before they had time to stop, the dogs had flown one before the other into the marsh. “Krak! Laska!...” The dogs came ba ...