Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

920 921 beat more violently; and all of a sudden, as though some sort of shutter had been drawn back from his straining ears, al ...

922 923 Chapter 10. Vassenka drove the horses so smartly that they reached the marsh too early, while it was still hot. As they ...

924 925 mud. Oblonsky aimed deliberately at another, still flying low in the reeds, and together with the report of the shot, th ...

926 927 “They invite you to have some vodka. Most likely they’ve been dividing the meadow into lots. I should have some,” said L ...

928 929 “Well? You have been popping away!” he said, smiling good- humoredly. “How have you got on?” queried Levin. But there wa ...

930 931 Though it was dusk, not one of them wanted to go to sleep. After wavering among reminiscences and anecdotes of guns, of ...

932 933 “I can’t say.” “Well, but I can tell you: your receiving some five thousand, let’s say, for your work on the land, while ...

934 935 putting on his shoes and stockings. “Good-bye, gentlemen. If it’s fun, I’ll fetch you. You’ve treated me to some good sp ...

936 937 pers, and lighting a cigar, walked out of the barn, and soon their voices were lost. For a long while Levin could not ge ...

938 939 Chapter 12. Waking up at earliest dawn, Levin tried to wake his companions. Vassenka, lying on his stomach, with one leg ...

940 941 whistled as a sign that she might begin. Laska ran joyfully and anxiously through the slush that swayed under her. Runni ...

942 943 excited whisper said, “Fetch it, Laska.” “Well, if that’s what he wishes, I’ll do it, but I can’t answer for myself now, ...

944 945 Chapter 13. The sportsman’s saying, that if the first beast or the first bird is not missed, the day will be lucky, turn ...

946 947 his hungry mortification. In the evening they went shooting again, and Veslovsky had sev- eral successful shots, and in ...

948 949 The princess, sitting on the other side of the table with Marya Vlasyevna and Stepan Arkadyevitch, called Levin to her s ...

950 951 The conversation Vassenka had started with Kitty was running on the same lines as on the previous evening, discussing An ...

952 953 not to blame? All the morning I’ve been trying to take a tone...but such people ...Why did he come? How happy we were!” ...

954 955 And in the tone of her question Levin heard that it would be easy for him to say what he had meant to say. “I’ve not bee ...

956 957 ing how to begin. “I wanted....” He paused, but suddenly, remembering Kitty and everything that had happened, he said, l ...

958 959 princess, who could not pardon Levin’s action, became extraordinarily lively and good humored, like children after a pun ...