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Anna Karenina

Chapter 11

On entering the studio, Mihailov once more scanned
his visitors and noted down in his imagination Vronsky’s
expression too, and especially his jaws. Although his
artistic sense was unceasingly at work collecting materials,
although he felt a continually increasing excitement as the
moment of criticizing his work drew nearer, he rapidly
and subtly formed, from imperceptible signs, a mental
image of these three persons.
That fellow (Golenishtchev) was a Russian living here.
Mihailov did not remember his surname nor where he had
met him, nor what he had said to him. He only
remembered his face as he remembered all the faces he had
ever seen; but he remembered, too, that it was one of the
faces laid by in his memory in the immense class of the
falsely consequential and poor in expression. The abundant
hair and very open forehead gave an appearance of
consequence to the face, which had only one expression—
a petty, childish, peevish expression, concentrated just
above the bridge of the narrow nose. Vronsky and
Madame Karenina must be, Mihailov supposed,
distinguished and wealthy Russians, knowing nothing

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