Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

960 961 matter for Levin to make up the number, but the duties of hospitality would not let him allow Darya Alexandrovna to hire ...

962 963 The birth, the agony, the hideous agonies, that last moment...then the nursing, the sleepless nights, the fearful pains. ...

964 965 husband, “and I put up with him. Is that any better? At that time I could still have been admired, I had beauty left me ...

966 967 vaguely, not knowing how to ask about Anna, even of this peasant. “At home for sure,” said the peasant, shifting from on ...

968 969 against Dolly and kissing her, and at the next holding her off and examining her with a smile. “Here’s a delightful surp ...

970 971 smart trotter in the char-a-banc was only good for promenage, and wouldn’t do thirty miles straight off in the heat. The ...

972 973 “But of that we’ll talk later. What’s this, what are all these build- ings?” she asked, wanting to change the conversati ...

974 975 which were just being led away from the steps. “It is a nice horse, isn’t it? It’s my cob; my favorite. Lead him here an ...

976 977 Chapter 19. Left alone, Darya Alexandrovna, with a good housewife’s eye, scanned her room. All she had seen in entering ...

978 979 ficial, careless tone which, as it were, closed the door on that compart- ment in which her deeper feelings and ideas we ...

980 981 saw at once that Anna, the two nurses, and the child had no common existence, and that the mother’s visit was something ...

982 983 Chapter 20. “Here’s Dolly for you, princess, you were so anxious to see her,” said Anna, coming out with Darya Alexandro ...

984 985 conduct. As is indeed not unfrequent with women of unimpeachable virtue, weary of the monotony of respectable existence, ...

986 987 scaffolding. Workmen in aprons, standing on scaffolds, were laying bricks, pouring mortar out of vats, and smoothing it ...

988 989 air, and he moves, rolls himself along....” Darya Alexandrovna was interested by everything. She liked ev- erything very ...

990 991 will receive Anna in Moscow.... Or isn’t it Vassenka Veslovsky and his relations with Anna? Or perhaps about Kitty, that ...

992 993 he looked with gloomy inquiry towards Darya Alexandrovna. She made no answer, but simply gazed at him. He went on: “One ...

994 995 And she remembered that Anna drooped her eyelids just when the deeper questions of life were touched upon. “Just as thou ...

996 997 guest. The architect he had already introduced to her at the hospital. A stout butler, resplendent with a smoothly shave ...

998 999 “Have you ever seen a reaping machine?” she said, addressing Darya Alexandrovna. “We had just ridden over to look at one ...