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On his way he thought no more about money, but considered how he could make the acquaintance of the Petersburg scholar, who was studying sociology, and how he would talk to him about his book.
While driving he thought of Katavasov and of making Metrov's acquaintance.
Happening to meet Levin at a public lecture the previous day, Katavasov had told him that the celebrated Metrov, whose article had so pleased Levin, was in Moscow and was much interested in what Katavasov had told him of Levin's work, that he would be at his house next day about eleven in the morning and would be very pleased to make Levin's acquaintance.
Levin told him what he had heard from Katavasov of what was said in Petersburg, and, after some talk on politics, Levin recounted how he had made Metrov's acquaintance and had gone to the meeting.
Wishing to clear up his own perplexity by hearing other people's impressions, Levin went to look for the experts, and was pleased to find a celebrated one chatting with his own acquaintance, Pestsov.
'It seems to me that to send him abroad would be like punishing a pike by throwing it into the water,' said Levin; and only afterwards remembered that that thought, apparently given out as his own, and which he had heard from his acquaintance, was taken from one of Krylov's fables, and that his acquaintance had repeated it from a feuilleton.
'How glad I am that you will make her acquaintance,' said he.'Do you know, Dolly has long wished it: and Lvov called on her and goes to see her.
There is some one satisfied with himself?' she thought, seeing a fat ruddy man who was driving past in the opposite direction, and who, taking her for an acquaintance, lifted his shiny hat above his bald and shiny head, but then discovered that he was mistaken: 'He thought he knew me.
As soon as the train stopped he changed carriages and made acquaintance with the Volunteers.
He who preaches war – off with him in a special legion to the assault, to the attack, in front of everybody else!"-''The editors would be fine!' remarked Katavasov, laughing loudly, and picturing to himself the editors of his acquaintance in that chosen legion.
First Katavasov amused the ladies with his original jokes, which on first acquaintance with him always pleased people, and afterwards, encouraged by Koznyshev, he recounted his very interesting observations on the differences in character, and even in physiognomy, between male and female house-flies and on their life.
Hence I could have answered you as early as our initial interview, but first I wanted to make your acquaintance and then think things over.
The rain interrupted them or an acquaintance passed.
She had been his first patient, his oldest acquaintance in the place.
Still it's sad, all the same, to see an acquaintance go off."
"It procured me the advantage of making your acquaintance," he added, and he looked at Emma as he said this.
At the sound of the bell, Theodore in a red waistcoat appeared on the steps; he came to open the door almost familiarly, as to an acquaintance, and showed her into the dining-room.
In short, she found M. de Renal a great deal less boring than any of the other men of her acquaintance.
'You would show a hundred times more of sincere affection to Madame Derville, to a mere acquaintance.'
A thorough, a too thorough acquaintance with the Holy Scriptures.'(Julien had just spoken to him, without having been questioned on the subject, of the true date of authorship of Genesis, the Pentateuch, etc.)'To what does all this endless discussion of the Holy Scriptures lead,' thought the abbe Pirard, 'if not to private judgment, that is to say to the most fearful Protestantism?
He had made the acquaintance of a number of men; but all of them, after six weeks or so, had drifted away from him.
In London he at last made acquaintance with the extremes of fatuity.
'Secondly: you will pay court to a woman of her acquaintance, but without any appearance of passion, you understand?
This acquaintance will make you talked about; it will give you a position in society.
His eyes met first the tearful eyes of Mathilde; she was weeping without restraint, there was no one present but people of minor importance, the friend who had lent them the box and some men of her acquaintance.
the women would ask the men of their acquaintance and one could see them grow pale as they awaited the reply.
Didn't Franz tell you?""And what is it you want, then?" said K., looking back and forth between this new acquaintance and the one named Franz, who had remained in the doorway.
He inclined his head slightly toward K.'s uncle, who seemed very happy with his new acquaintance, but he was not the sort of person to express his feelings of deference and responded to the office director's words with embarrassed, but loud, laughter.
So he drew the manufacturer's letter out from his pocket, held it out to the painter and said, "I learned about you from this gentleman, an acquaintance of yours, and it's on his advice that I've come here".
If the manufacturer had not said very clearly that Titorelli was an acquaintance of his, a poor man who was dependent on his charity, then it would really have been quite possible to believe that Titorelli did not know him or at least that he could not remember him.
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