1 The study was slowly lit up as the candle was brought in.
2 When the candle was taken away, Seryozha heard and felt his mother.
3 Without the candle I can see better what I see and what I prayed for.
4 And getting into bed, she blew out the candle, lay down and was still.
5 "Nothing," she said, coming from behind the screen with a candle in her hand.
6 He waked up in the dark, trembling with horror, and made haste to light a candle.
7 Levin felt, withdrew behind the screen, and put out the candle, but for a long while he could not sleep.
8 And he shook his head disapprovingly, as though he had grave doubts whether this game were worth the candle.
9 He lighted a candle, got up cautiously and went to the looking-glass, and began looking at his face and hair.
10 He saw that a sigh was held back in her throat, and the little hand in the long glove shook as it held the candle.
11 The servant, whose turn it was to be up all night, lighted his candles, and would have gone away, but Levin stopped him.
12 "Well, God be with you," she said at the door of the study, where a shaded candle and a decanter of water were already put by his armchair.
13 In his study Alexey Alexandrovitch walked up and down twice, and stopped at an immense writing-table, on which six candles had already been lighted by the valet who had preceded him.
14 And such horror came upon her that for a long while she could not realize where she was, and for a long while her trembling hands could not find the matches and light another candle, instead of the one that had burned down and gone out.
15 He scanned the bookcases and bookshelves, and with the same dubious air with which he had regarded the snipe, he smiled contemptuously and shook his head disapprovingly, as though by no means willing to allow that this game were worth the candle.
16 She lay in bed with open eyes, by the light of a single burned-down candle, gazing at the carved cornice of the ceiling and at the shadow of the screen that covered part of it, while she vividly pictured to herself how he would feel when she would be no more, when she would be only a memory to him.
17 Almost at the same instant the hostess, with freshly arranged coiffure and freshened face, walked in at one door and her guests at the other door of the drawing room, a large room with dark walls, downy rugs, and a brightly lighted table, gleaming with the light of candles, white cloth, silver samovar, and transparent china tea things.
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