1 Before he read the letter, he knew its contents.
2 In the commission this question had been a ground of contention between several departments.
3 Instead of poverty, general prosperity and content; instead of hostility, harmony and unity of interests.
4 I am working here, settled in my own place, and I am happy and contented, and we need nothing more to make us happy.
5 He had scarcely read this note, and frowned at its contents, when he heard below the ponderous tramp of the servants, carrying something heavy.
6 He was not in the least interested in what he said himself, and even less so in what they said; all he wanted was that they and everyone should be happy and contented.
7 And she was marveling that it had once seemed impossible to her, was explaining to them, laughing, that this was ever so much simpler, and that now both of them were happy and contented.
8 The simplicity, the purity, the sanity of this life he felt clearly, and he was convinced he would find in it the content, the peace, and the dignity, of the lack of which he was so miserably conscious.
9 The only change Vronsky detected in him was that subdued, continual radiance of beaming content which settles on the faces of men who are successful and are sure of the recognition of their success by everyone.
10 Kitty bent down to him, he gave her a beaming smile, propped his little hands on the sponge and chirruped, making such a queer little contented sound with his lips, that Kitty and the nurse were not alone in their admiration.
11 Thinking over what he would say, he somewhat regretted that he should have to use his time and mental powers for domestic consumption, with so little to show for it, but, in spite of that, the form and contents of the speech before him shaped itself as clearly and distinctly in his head as a ministerial report.