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Anna Karenina

there time for that cloud-shell to form? Just now I looked
at the sky, and there was nothing in it—only two white
streaks. Yes, and so imperceptibly too my views of life
changed!’

He went out of the meadow and walked along the
highroad towards the village. A slight wind arose, and the
sky looked gray and sullen. The gloomy moment had
come that usually precedes the dawn, the full triumph of
light over darkness.
Shrinking from the cold, Levin walked rapidly, looking
at the ground. ‘What’s that? Someone coming,’ he
thought, catching the tinkle of bells, and lifting his head.
Forty paces from him a carriage with four horses harnessed
abreast was driving towards him along the grassy road on
which he was walking. The shaft-horses were tilted against
the shafts by the ruts, but the dexterous driver sitting on
the box held the shaft over the ruts, so that the wheels ran
on the smooth part of the road.
This was all Levin noticed, and without wondering
who it could be, he gazed absently at the coach.
In the coach was an old lady dozing in one corner, and
at the window, evidently only just awake, sat a young girl
holding in both hands the ribbons of a white cap. With a
face full of light and thought, full of a subtle, complex

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