1 I should not be a lawyer if I could not keep the secrets confided to me.
2 It is a secret for me alone, of vital importance for me, and not to be put into words.
3 This letter attained the secret object which Countess Lidia Ivanovna had concealed from herself.
4 But all these were secret dreams, of which Kitty did not talk either to her mother or to Varenka.
5 And he experienced the strange feeling that had sometimes come upon him since his secret love for Anna.
6 This playing with words, this hiding of a secret, had a great fascination for Anna, as, indeed, it has for all women.
7 He knew that between him and her there could not be, and should not be, secrets, and so he had decided that so it must be.
8 said Kitty, feeling she was giving away her secret, and that her face, burning with the flush of shame, had betrayed her already.
9 Kitty did not answer, not because she had nothing to say, but because she did not care to reveal her secret thoughts even to her father.
10 "Pierre, give me the coffee," she said, addressing Petritsky, whom she called Pierre as a contraction of his surname, making no secret of her relations with him.
11 He did not realize it, because it was too terrible to him to realize his actual position, and he shut down and locked and sealed up in his heart that secret place where lay hid his feelings towards his family, that is, his wife and son.
12 But he was not aware that he sought work for himself that year, that this was one of the means for keeping shut that secret place where lay hid his feelings towards his wife and son and his thoughts about them, which became more terrible the longer they lay there.
13 And kissing Kitty once more, without saying what was important, she stepped out courageously with the music under her arm and vanished into the twilight of the summer night, bearing away with her her secret of what was important and what gave her the calm and dignity so much to be envied.
14 There had arisen of late something like a secret antagonism between the two brothers-in-law; as though, since they had married sisters, a kind of rivalry had sprung up between them as to which was ordering his life best, and now this hostility showed itself in the conversation, as it began to take a personal note.
15 The nobles, both in the larger and the smaller rooms, grouped themselves in camps, and from their hostile and suspicious glances, from the silence that fell upon them when outsiders approached a group, and from the way that some, whispering together, retreated to the farther corridor, it was evident that each side had secrets from the other.
16 Apart from the fact that the sight of this happy and affectionate couple, so pleased with themselves and everyone else, and their well-ordered home had always a cheering effect on Levin, he felt a longing, now that he was so dissatisfied with his own life, to get at that secret in Sviazhsky that gave him such clearness, definiteness, and good courage in life.
17 She remembered the simple delight expressed on the round, good-humored face of Anna Pavlovna at their meetings; she remembered their secret confabulations about the invalid, their plots to draw him away from the work which was forbidden him, and to get him out-of-doors; the devotion of the youngest boy, who used to call her "my Kitty," and would not go to bed without her.
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