1 The first person he saw was Mademoiselle Linon.
2 She wanted to be the first to tell him her happiness and his.
3 She was utterly unlike what she had been when he first saw her.
4 And all equally felt this strange and painful for the first minute.
5 Her name, written in blue pencil, "Anna," was the first thing that caught his eye.
6 "No," she cried, on seeing him, and at the first sound of her voice the tears came into her eyes.
7 That this was a trick and a fraud, of that, he thought for the first minute, there could be no doubt.
8 And for the first time, for an instant, she felt for him, put herself in his place, and was sorry for him.
9 The princess was the first to put everything into words, and to translate all thoughts and feelings into practical questions.
10 He would go into the nursery several times a day, and sit there for a long while, so that the nurses, who were at first afraid of him, got quite used to his presence.
11 He knew now the one thing of importance; and that one thing was at first there, in the drawing room, and then began moving across and came to a standstill at the door.
12 Her first impulse was to jerk back her hand from the damp hand with big swollen veins that sought hers, but with an obvious effort to control herself she pressed his hand.
13 Standing at the first litany, Levin attempted to revive in himself his youthful recollections of the intense religious emotion he had passed through between the ages of sixteen and seventeen.
14 Apart from this, there remained a vague memory that what the kind, nice old fellow had said had not been at all so stupid as he had fancied at first, and that there was something in it that must be cleared up.
15 He had two pieces of business before him that morning; first, to receive and send on a deputation from the native tribes which was on its way to Petersburg, and now at Moscow; secondly, to write the promised letter to the lawyer.
16 They were disputing about the misappropriation of certain sums and the laying of certain pipes, and Sergey Ivanovitch was very cutting to two members, and said something at great length with an air of triumph; and another member, scribbling something on a bit of paper, began timidly at first, but afterwards answered him very viciously and delightfully.
17 During the service he would first listen to the prayers, trying to attach some meaning to them not discordant with his own views; then feeling that he could not understand and must condemn them, he tried not to listen to them, but to attend to the thoughts, observations, and memories which floated through his brain with extreme vividness during this idle time of standing in church.
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