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Quotes from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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1 With a book under his arm he went upstairs.
2 Clutching at his arm, she nodded smiling to Levin.
3 Stepan Arkadyevitch, with his sister on his arm, turned back.
4 Alexey Alexandrovitch went up to Anna and courteously offered her his arm.
5 "For the third time I offer you my arm," he said to her after a little time, turning to her.
6 Without even asking her if she cared to dance, he put out his arm to encircle her slender waist.
7 Korsunsky bowed, set straight his open shirt front, and gave her his arm to conduct her to Anna Arkadyevna.
8 "Once more I offer you my arm if you want to be going," said Alexey Alexandrovitch, reaching towards her hand.
9 And again Grisha poked his little face under her arm, and nestled with his head on her gown, beaming with pride and happiness.
10 Pointing Levin with her bare arm to the door into the parlor, she bent down again, hiding her handsome face, and went on scrubbing.
11 Vronsky gave his mother his arm; but just as they were getting out of the carriage several men ran suddenly by with panic-stricken faces.
12 He flushed slightly, and hurriedly asked her to waltz, but he had only just put his arm round her waist and taken the first step when the music suddenly stopped.
13 Left alone in the room assigned him, lying on a spring mattress that yielded unexpectedly at every movement of his arm or his leg, Levin did not fall asleep for a long while.
14 And as soon as her brother had reached her, with a gesture that struck Vronsky by its decision and its grace, she flung her left arm around his neck, drew him rapidly to her, and kissed him warmly.
15 In spite of his feeling of pride and, as it were, of the return of youth, with his favorite daughter on his arm, he felt awkward, and almost ashamed of his vigorous step and his sturdy, stout limbs.
16 He saw out of the window how she went up to her brother, put her arm in his, and began telling him something eagerly, obviously something that had nothing to do with him, Vronsky, and at that he felt annoyed.
17 Anna answered a few words, but not foreseeing any entertainment from the conversation, she asked Annushka to get a lamp, hooked it onto the arm of her seat, and took from her bag a paper knife and an English novel.
18 Her light, transparent skirts rose like a cloud about her slender waist; one bare, thin, soft, girlish arm, hanging listlessly, was lost in the folds of her pink tunic; in the other she held her fan, and with rapid, short strokes fanned her burning face.
19 He knew that she had a husband, but had hardly believed in his existence, and only now fully believed in him, with his head and shoulders, and his legs clad in black trousers; especially when he saw this husband calmly take her arm with a sense of property.
20 And kissing Kitty once more, without saying what was important, she stepped out courageously with the music under her arm and vanished into the twilight of the summer night, bearing away with her her secret of what was important and what gave her the calm and dignity so much to be envied.
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