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The Levins Had Been Three Months in Moscow

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

... long passed on which, according to the most trust- worthy calculations of people learned in such matters, Kitty should have been confined. But she wa... ..., but at the same time she wanted to laugh with a strange new joy. All the people she loved were with her, and all were so good to her, so attentively... ...n others, she saw with a panic even of jealous fear that he was far indeed from being a pitiable figure, that he was very attractive with his fine bre... ...re, and striking, as she thought, and expressive face. But she saw him not from without, but from within; she saw that here he was not himself; that w... ... more careful and sensible in that respect, they had no quarrels in Moscow from jealousy, which they had so dreaded when they moved from the country. ... ...laborer has a quite special view of the land, different from that of other people; and to support this proposition he made haste to add that in his op... ... comfortable carriage, that hardly swayed on its supple springs, while the grays trot- ted swiftly, in the midst of the unceasing rattle of wheels and...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Levins had been three months in Moscow. The date had long passed on which, according to the most trustworthy calculations of people learned in such matters, Kitty should have been confined. But she was still about, and there was nothing to show that her time was any nearer than two months ago. The doctor, the monthly nurse, and Dolly and her mother...

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