Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy
Chapter 137
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On entering the studio, Mihailov once more scanned his visitors and
noted down in his imagination Vronsky’s expression too, and especially
his jaws. Although his artistic sense was unceasingly at work
collecting materials, although he felt a continually increasing
excitement as the moment of criticizing his work drew nearer, he
rapidly and subtly formed, from imperceptible signs, a mental image of
these three persons.
That fellow (Golenishtchev) was a Russian living here. Mihailov did not
remember his surname nor where he had met him, nor what he had said to
him. He only remembered his face as he remembered all the faces he had
ever seen; but he remembered, too, that it was one of the faces laid by
in his memory in the immense class of the falsely consequential and
poor in expression. The abundant hair and very open forehead gave an
appearance of consequence to the face, which had only one expression—a
petty, childish, peevish expression, concentrated just above the bridge
of the narrow nose. Vronsky and Madame Karenina must be, Mihailov
supposed, distinguished and wealthy Russians, knowing nothing about
art, like all those wealthy Russians, but posing as amateurs and
connoisseurs. “Most likely they’ve already looked at all the antiques,
and now they’re making the round of the studios of the new people, the
German humbug, and the cracked Pre-Raphaelite English fellow, and have
only come to me to make the point of view complete,” he thought. He was
well acquainted with the way dilettanti have (the cleverer they were
the worse he found them) of looking at the works of contemporary
artists with the sole object of being in a position to say that art is
a thing of the past, and that the more one sees of the new men the more
one sees how inimitable the works of the great old masters have
remained. He expected all this; he saw it all in their faces, he saw it
in the careless indifference with which they talked among themselves,
stared at the lay figures and busts, and walked about in leisurely
fashion, waiting for him to uncover his picture. But in spite of this,
while he was turning over his studies, pulling up the blinds and taking
off the sheet, he was in intense excitement, especially as, in spite of
his conviction that all distinguished and wealthy Russians were certain
to be beasts and fools, he liked Vronsky, and still more Anna.
“Here, if you please,” he said, moving on one side with his nimble gait
and pointing to his picture, “it’s the exhortation to Pilate. Matthew,
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108. Chapter 108
109. Chapter 109
110. Chapter 110
111. Chapter 111
112. Chapter 112
113. Chapter 113
114. Chapter 114
115. Chapter 115
116. Chapter 116
117. Chapter 117
118. Chapter 118
119. Chapter 119
120. Chapter 120
121. Chapter 121
122. Chapter 122
123. Chapter 123
124. Chapter 124
125. Chapter 125
126. Chapter 126
127. part I am in doubt.”
128. Chapter 128
129. Chapter 129
130. Chapter 130
131. Chapter 131
132. Chapter 132
133. Chapter 133
134. Chapter 134
135. Chapter 135
136. Chapter 136
137. Chapter 137
138. chapter xxvii,” he said, feeling his lips were beginning to tremble
139. Chapter 139
140. Chapter 140
141. Chapter 141
142. Chapter 142
143. Chapter 143
144. Chapter 144
145. Chapter 145
146. Chapter 146
147. Chapter 147
148. Chapter 148
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150. Chapter 150
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152. Chapter 152
153. Chapter 153
154. Chapter 154
155. Chapter 155
156. Chapter 156
157. Chapter 157
158. Chapter 158
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160. Chapter 160
161. Chapter 161
162. Chapter 162
163. Chapter 163
164. Chapter 164
165. Chapter 165
166. Chapter 166
167. Chapter 167
168. Chapter 168
169. Chapter 169
170. Chapter 170
171. Chapter 171
172. Chapter 172
173. Chapter 173
174. Chapter 174
175. Chapter 175
176. Chapter 176
177. Chapter 177
178. Chapter 178
179. Chapter 179
180. Chapter 180
181. Chapter 181
182. Chapter 182
183. Chapter 183
184. Chapter 184
185. Chapter 185
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188. Chapter 188
189. Chapter 189
190. Chapter 190
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192. Chapter 192
193. Chapter 193
194. Chapter 194
195. Chapter 195
196. Chapter 196
197. Chapter 197
198. Chapter 198
199. Chapter 199
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201. Chapter 201
202. Chapter 202
203. Chapter 203
204. Chapter 204
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206. Chapter 206
207. Chapter 207
208. Chapter 208
209. Chapter 209
210. Chapter 210
211. Chapter 211
212. Chapter 212
213. Chapter 213
214. Chapter 214
215. Chapter 215
216. Chapter 216
217. Chapter 217
218. Chapter 218
219. Chapter 219
220. Chapter 220
221. Chapter 221
222. Chapter 222
223. Chapter 223
224. Chapter 224
225. Chapter 225
226. Chapter 226
227. Chapter 227
228. Chapter 228
229. introduction. Nor for the Turks....” he said, with a smile that was
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234. Chapter 234
235. Chapter 235
236. Chapter 236
237. Chapter 237
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239. Chapter 239
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