1 And then that portrait of me he did so well.
2 It was the portrait of Anna, painted in Italy by Mihailov.
3 Mihailov sold Vronsky his picture, and agreed to paint a portrait of Anna.
4 Anna was even more friendly to him than to other people, and was very grateful for her portrait.
5 Getting up and walking about the room, he glanced again at the portrait, frowned, and smiled contemptuously.
6 Over the easy chair there hung in a gold frame an oval portrait of Anna, a fine painting by a celebrated artist.
7 He positively forgot where he was, and not even hearing what was said, he could not take his eyes off the marvelous portrait.
8 From the fifth sitting the portrait impressed everyone, especially Vronsky, not only by its resemblance, but by its characteristic beauty.
9 I have been struggling on for ever so long without doing anything," he said of his own portrait of her, "and he just looked and painted it.
10 Another lamp with a reflector was hanging on the wall, lighting up a big full-length portrait of a woman, which Levin could not help looking at.
11 After looking at the portrait for a minute, Alexey Alexandrovitch shuddered so that his lips quivered and he uttered the sound "brrr," and turned away.
12 Alexey Alexandrovitch looked idly about at the endless familiar portraits which adorned the room, and sitting down to the table, he opened a New Testament lying upon it.
13 "One needs to know and love her as I have loved her to discover the very sweetest expression of her soul," Vronsky thought, though it was only from this portrait that he had himself learned this sweetest expression of her soul.
14 A short, thinnish man, very pale and handsome, with feminine hips and knock-kneed legs, with fine brilliant eyes and long hair lying on the collar of his coat, was standing at the end of the room gazing at the portraits on the wall.
15 All the officials sitting on the further side under the portrait of the Tsar and the eagle, delighted at any distraction, looked round at the door; but the doorkeeper standing at the door at once drove out the intruder, and closed the glass door after him.
16 Altogether Mihailov, with his reserved and disagreeable, as it were, hostile attitude, was quite disliked by them as they got to know him better; and they were glad when the sittings were over, and they were left with a magnificent portrait in their possession, and he gave up coming.
17 Anna had come from behind the treillage to meet him, and Levin saw in the dim light of the study the very woman of the portrait, in a dark blue shot gown, not in the same position nor with the same expression, but with the same perfection of beauty which the artist had caught in the portrait.
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