1 Just as she was leaving the drawing room, a ring was heard in the hall.
2 Exactly at half-past nine she heard his ring, and he came into the room.
3 As though absorbed in the arrangement of her rings, she did not even turn to him.
4 She laid her hand on his sleeve, dazzling and white with its rings in the lamplight.
5 Again they were puzzled, and passed the rings from hand to hand, still without doing what was expected.
6 Here, take it, she said to Tanya, who was pulling the loosely-fitting ring off her white, slender-tipped finger.
7 Anna took a knife and fork in her beautiful white hands covered with rings, and began showing how the machine worked.
8 The weary, and at the same time passionate, glance of those eyes, encircled by dark rings, impressed one by its perfect sincerity.
9 At last, having duly performed the ceremony, having signed the rings with the cross, the priest handed Kitty the big ring, and Levin the little one.
10 She listened attentively, looking at him over the baby, while she put back on her slender fingers the rings she had taken off while giving Mitya his bath.
11 Berkoot, the bull, was lying down with his ring in his lip, and seemed about to get up, but thought better of it, and only gave two snorts as they passed by him.
12 Venden himself, on returning from his office, heard a ring at their bell and voices, went out, and seeing the intoxicated officers with a letter, he had turned them out.
13 Bending her curly black head, she pressed her forehead against a cool watering pot that stood on the parapet, and both her lovely hands, with the rings he knew so well, clasped the pot.
14 And it had become a sort of game among them to sit a close as possible to their aunt, to touch her, hold her little hand, kiss it, play with her ring, or even touch the flounce of her skirt.
15 Thou who didst from the beginning create male and female," the priest read after the exchange of rings, "from Thee woman was given to man to be a helpmeet to him, and for the procreation of children.
16 With the trace of a smile of commiseration for herself she sat down in the armchair, taking off and putting on the rings on her left hand, vividly picturing from different sides his feelings after her death.
17 Her eyes glowed with the fire he knew so well; with a rapid movement she raised her lovely hands, covered with rings, took his head, looked a long look into his face, and, putting up her face with smiling, parted lips, swiftly kissed his mouth and both eyes, and pushed him away.
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