Page 1065 - ANNA KARENINA

Anna Karenina

As is invariably the case, after they had been asked at
what price they wanted rooms, it appeared that there was
not one decent room for them; one decent room had been
taken by the inspector of railroads, another by a lawyer

from Moscow, a third by Princess Astafieva from the
country. There remained only one filthy room, next to
which they promised that another should be empty by the
evening. Feeling angry with his wife because what he had
expected had come to pass, which was that at the moment
of arrival, when his heart throbbed with emotion and
anxiety to know how his brother was getting on, he
should have to be seeing after her, instead of rushing
straight to his brother, Levin conducted her to the room
assigned them.
‘Go, do go!’ she said, looking at him with timid and
guilty eyes.
He went out of the door without a word, and at once
stumbled over Marya Nikolaevna, who had heard of his
arrival and had not dared to go in to see him. She was just
the same as when he saw her in Moscow; the same
woolen gown, and bare arms and neck, and the same
good-naturedly stupid, pockmarked face, only a little
plumper.
‘Well, how is he? how is he?’

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