1 "Altogether then, I see your visit was a success," he said to her.
2 I was greatly delighted to hear of your success, but not a bit surprised.
3 On the material side the dinner was a success; it was no less so on the immaterial.
4 And to do this one must lower the standard of husbandry and interest the laborers in its success.
5 The soupe Marie-Louise was a splendid success; the tiny pies eaten with it melted in the mouth and were irreproachable.
6 He saw clearly, and other people recognized it, too, that he had done a great deal to secure the success of Nevyedovsky.
7 On reaching the French theater, Vronsky retired to the foyer with the colonel, and reported to him his success, or non-success.
8 Never did he work with such fervor and success as when things went ill with him, and especially when he quarreled with his wife.
9 Her success in society had been greater than that of either of her elder sisters, and greater even than her mother had anticipated.
10 She saw in her the signs of that excitement of success she knew so well in herself; she saw that she was intoxicated with the delighted admiration she was exciting.
11 He was quite a new man in the circle of the nobility of the province, but his success was unmistakable, and he was not wrong in supposing that he had already obtained a certain influence.
12 But the more he shot, the more he felt disgraced in the eyes of Veslovsky, who kept popping away merrily and indiscriminately, killing nothing, and not in the slightest abashed by his ill success.
13 But what contributed more than all to his success was his direct, equable manner with everyone, which very quickly made the majority of the noblemen reverse the current opinion of his supposed haughtiness.
14 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.
15 Since he knew nothing of this, and drew his inspiration, not directly from life, but indirectly from life embodied in art, his inspiration came very quickly and easily, and as quickly and easily came his success in painting something very similar to the sort of painting he was trying to imitate.
16 Imagine, I ought to have said to him, that you have the same system as the old peasant has, that you have found means of making your laborers take an interest in the success of the work, and have found the happy mean in the way of improvements which they will admit, and you will, without exhausting the soil, get twice or three times the yield you got before.
17 They were not only fond of Vronsky in his regiment, they respected him too, and were proud of him; proud that this man, with his immense wealth, his brilliant education and abilities, and the path open before him to every kind of success, distinction, and ambition, had disregarded all that, and of all the interests of life had the interests of his regiment and his comrades nearest to his heart.
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