Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

110 111 service, and now of course any fresh, vulgar creature has more charm for him. No doubt they talked of me together, or, w ...

112 113 forgive it. I could not be the same, no; but I could forgive it, and forgive it as though it had never been, never been ...

114 115 of a boy of eight years old. In the elasticity of her movements, the freshness and the unflagging eagerness which persis ...

116 117 she said, tearing the children form her, and sending them off to the dining room. “I know why you press me to come to th ...

118 119 Chapter 21. Dolly came out of her room to the tea of the grown-up people. Stepan Arkadyevitch did not come out. He must ...

120 121 main staircase. Just as she was leaving the drawing room, a ring was heard in the hall. “Who can that be?” said Dolly “I ...

122 123 Chapter 22. The ball was only just beginning as Kitty and her mother walked up the great staircase, flooded with light, ...

124 125 is to say, a few couples who had started dancing—he caught sight of Kitty, entering, and flew up to her with that peculi ...

126 127 pictured her invariably in lilac. But now seeing her in black, she felt that she had not fully seen her charm. She saw h ...

128 129 Chapter 23. Vronsky and Kitty waltzed several times round the room. After the first waltz Kitty went to her mother, and ...

130 131 said was determining their fate and hers. And strange it was that they were actually talking of how absurd Ivan Ivanovit ...

132 133 her suffering. Kitty felt overwhelmed, and her face showed it. When Vronsky saw her, coming across her in the mazurka, h ...

134 135 Chapter 24. “Yes, there is something in be hatful, repulsive,” thought Levin, as he came away from the Shtcherbatskys’, ...

136 137 Nikolay, in his soul, in the very depths of his soul, was no more in the wrong than the people who despised him. He was ...

138 139 simply come to see you.” His brother’s timidity obviously softened Nikolay. His lips twitched. “Oh, so that’s it?” he sa ...

140 141 Chapter 25. “So you see,” pursued Nikolay Levin, painfully wrinkling his fore- head and twitching. It was obviously diff ...

142 143 looked round angrily at her. She went quickly to him, and whispered something. “I’m not well; I’ve grown irritable,” sai ...

144 145 “Why don’t you get married?” “It hasn’t happened so,” Konstantin answered, reddening a little. “Why not? For me now...ev ...

146 147 Would you like some champagne? Or shall we go somewhere? Let’s go to the Gypsies! Do you know I have got so fond of the ...

148 149 happiness, such as marriage must have given him, and consequently he would not so disdain what he really had. Secondly, ...