and did not agree with her comments. But on thisoccasion she entirely misinterpret brande roderick ed what he had said.Of ones souls salvation we all know and must thinkbefore all else, she said with a sigh. Parfen Denisitchnow, for all he was no scholar, he died a death that Godgrant every one of us the like, she said, ref brande roderick erring to aservant who had died recently. Took the sacrament andall.Thats not what I mean, said he. I mean that Imacting for my own advantage. Its all the better for me ifthe peasants do their work better.Well, whatever you do, if hes a lazy good-for-nought,everythingll be at sixes and sevens. If he has a conscience,hell work, and if not, theres no doing anything.Oh, come, you say yourself Ivan has begun lookingafter the cattle better.All I say is, answered Agafea Mihalovna, evidently notspeaking at random, but in strict sequence of idea, thatyou ought to get married, thats what I say.Agafea Mihalovnas allusion to the very subject he hadonly just been thinking about, hurt and stung him. Levinscowled, and without answering her, he sat down again tohis work, repeating to himself all that he had beenthinking of the real significance of that work. Only at757 of 1759
Anna Kareninaintervals he listened in the stillness to the click of AgafeaMihalovnas needles, and recollecting what he did notwant to remember, he frowned again.At nine oclock they heard the bell and the faintvibration of a carriage over the mud.Well, heres visitors come to us, and you wont bedull, said Agafea Mihalovna, getting up and going to thedoor. But Levin overtook her. His work was not goingwell now, and he was glad of a visitor, whoever it mightbe.758 of 1759
Anna KareninaChapter 31Running halfway down the staircase, Levin caught asound he knew, a familiar cough in the hall. But he heardit indistinctly through the sound of his own footsteps, andhoped he was mistaken. Then he caught sight of a long,bony, familiar fi brande roderick gure, and now it seemed there was nopossibility of mistake; and yet he still went on hoping thatthis tall man taking off his fur cloak and coughing was nothis brother Nikolay.Levin loved his brother, but being with him was alwaysa torture. Just now, when Levin, under the influence ofthe thoughts that had come to him, and AgafeaMihalovnas hint, was in a troubled and uncertain humor,the meeting with his brother that he had to face seemedparticularly difficult. Instead of a lively, healthy visitor,some outsider who would, he hoped, cheer him up in hisuncertain humor, he had to see his brother, who knewhim through and through, who would call forth all thethoughts nearest his heart, would force him to showhimsel brande roderick f fully. And that he was not disposed to do.Angry with himself for so base a feeling, Levin ran intothe hall; as soon as he had seen his brother close, this759 of 1759
Anna Kareninafeeling of selfish disappointment vanished instantly and wasreplaced by pity. Terrible as his brother Nikolay had beenbefore in his emaciation and sickliness, now he looked stillmore emaciated, still more wasted. He was a skeletoncovered with skin.He stood in the hall, jerking his long thin neck, andpulling the scarf off it, and smiled a strange and pitifulsmile. When he saw that smile, submissive and humble,Levin felt something clutching at his throat.You see, Ive come to you, said Nikolay in a thickvoice, never for one second taking his eyes off hisbrothers face. Ive been meaning to a long while, but Ivebeen unwell all the time. Now Im ever so much better,he said, rubbing his beard with his big thin hands.Yes, yes! answered Levin. And he felt still morefrightened when, kissing him, he felt with his lips thedryness of his brothers skin and saw close to him his bigeyes, full of a strange light.A few weeks before, Konstantin Levin had written tohis brother that through the sale of the small part of theproperty, brande roderick
