Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

70 71 simply a good, but a brilliant match. In the mother’s eyes there could be no comparison between Vronsky and Levin. She dis ...

72 73 reason considered unseemly; it was ridiculed by every one, and by the princess herself. But how girls were to be married, ...

74 75 “but one thing, my love; you promised me you would have no secrets from me. You won’t?” “Never, mamma, none,” answered Kit ...

76 77 glass, she noticed with joy that it was one of her good days, and that she was in complete possession of all her forces,—s ...

78 79 “It was bound to be so,” he said, not looking at her. He bowed, and was meaning to retreat. Chapter 14. But at that very m ...

80 81 ing! I am so glad he can’t bear me,” she used to say of him. She was right, for Levin actually could not bear her, and des ...

82 83 what is good. Levin belonged to the second class. But he had no difficulty in finding what was good and attractive in Vron ...

84 85 ess Nordston, who believed in spiritualism, began to describe the mar- vels she had seen. “Ah, countess, you really must t ...

86 87 “Do let us try table-turning at once, please,” said Vronsky. “Prin- cess, will you allow it?” And Vronsky stood up, lookin ...

88 89 Chapter 15. At the end of the evening Kitty told her mother of her conversation with Levin, and in spite of all the pity s ...

90 91 “Well, and we had better.” “But do wait a minute. Do I try and catch them? I don’t try to catch them in the least. A young ...

92 93 character, that it is courting young girls with no intention of marriage, and that such courting is one of the evil action ...

94 95 Chapter 17. Next day at eleven o’clock in the morning Vronsky drove to the station of the Petersburg railway to meet his m ...

96 97 “Yes, that’s true, it is so,” said Stepan Arkadyevitch, laughing good- humoredly. “Will the train soon be in?” Vronsky ask ...

98 99 Chapter 18. Vronsky followed the guard to the carriage, and at the door of the compartment he stopped short to make room f ...

100 101 Madame Karenina, however, did not wait for her brother, but catch- ing sight of him she stepped out with her light, reso ...

102 103 “Everything has been delightful. Alexander has been very good, and Marie has grown very pretty. She’s very interesting.” ...

104 105 When they went out the Vronsky’s carriage had already driven away. People coming in were still talking of what happened. ...

106 107 seen nothing but kindness and affection from her towards myself.” It was true that as far as she could recall her impres ...

108 109 pened, everything’s over!” And directly she had said this, her face suddenly softened. Anna lifted the wasted, thin hand ...