1 Levin did not hear what the priest said.
2 The priest turned to Levin saying something.
3 "Yes," answered Levin, blushing for the priest.
4 The priest paused for some time, as though meditating.
5 The priest was the same old man that had confessed Levin.
6 He went up the steps, and turning to the right saw the priest.
7 "Doubt is natural to the weakness of mankind," the priest repeated the same words.
8 and, finishing the prayer of absolution, the priest blessed him and dismissed him.
9 You are entering upon a time of life," pursued the priest, "when you must choose your path and keep to it.
10 The priest, a little old man with a scanty grizzled beard and weary, good-natured eyes, was standing at the altar-rails, turning over the pages of a missal.
11 Meanwhile the officiating clergy had got into their vestments, and the priest and deacon came out to the lectern, which stood in the forepart of the church.
12 The priest lighted two candles, wreathed with flowers, and holding them sideways so that the wax dropped slowly from them he turned, facing the bridal pair.
13 Levin felt that it would be improper to enter upon a metaphysical discussion with the priest, and so he said in reply merely what was a direct answer to the question.
14 She noticed, too, that when she had found a Catholic priest with her, Madame Stahl had studiously kept her face in the shadow of the lamp-shade and had smiled in a peculiar way.
15 The priest was continually sending first the beadle and then the deacon to find out whether the bridegroom had not come, more and more often he went himself, in a lilac vestment and an embroidered sash, to the side door, expecting to see the bridegroom.
16 The little old priest in his ecclesiastical cap, with his long silvery-gray locks of hair parted behind his ears, was fumbling with something at the lectern, putting out his little old hands from under the heavy silver vestment with the gold cross on the back of it.
17 Levin made no answer this time, not because he did not want to enter upon a discussion with the priest, but because, so far, no one had ever asked him such questions, and when his babes did ask him those questions, it would be time enough to think about answering them.
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