Expression
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She wrote: 'He keeps on thinking of you; besides, there is no money left.''Read it...Dolly writes about you,' Kitty began with a smile, but paused suddenly, noticing the changed
expression
on her husband's face.
At the first glance Levin saw an
expression
of eager curiosity in the look with which Kitty gazed at this incomprehensible and terrible woman, but it lasted only an instant.
The smile was very faint, hardly perceptible, and in spite of it the stern
expression
of the eyes did not change.
From his
expression
Levin expected him to say something specially significant and important, but Nicholas only talked about his health.
Dreadful as it seemed to Levin to put his arms round that terrible body, to grasp those parts under the blanket which he did not wish to remember, yet submitting to his wife, with that determined
expression
which she knew, he thrust his arms under the blanket, and despite his great strength was struck by the strange heaviness of those emaciated limbs.
'Everything is possible,' she added with the peculiar and rather cunning
expression
which always appeared on her face when she spoke of religious matters.
Levin involuntarily meditated upon what was taking place within his brother at that moment, but, in spite of all the efforts of his mind to follow, he saw by the
expression
of that calm stern face and the play of the muscle above one eyebrow that something was becoming clear to the dying man which for Levin remained as dark as ever:'Yes, yes!
Toward night the patient could no longer raise his hands, and only gazed straight before him without changing the attentive concentrated
expression
of his eyes.
She could not say good-bye, but the
expression
of her face said it and he understood.
This was his most characteristic and best
expression.
He saw that something unusual was taking place within her: her eyes glittered with an
expression
of strained attention when her look rested on him, and in her speech and motions there was that nervous quickness and grace which, during the first period of their intimacy, had so captivated him, but which now troubled and alarmed him.
Yashvin's face wore the
expression
it had when he was losing at cards.
Agatha Mikhaylovna, with a flushed face and aggrieved expression, her hair ruffled and her thin arms bared to the elbow, was shaking the preserving pan over the brazier with a circular movement, looking dismally at the raspberries and hoping with all her heart that they would harden and not get cooked through.
'Well?' he asked, looking at her with the
expression
with which every one addressed her nowadays.
Moreover, he saw his wife had an
expression
of serious feeling as she gazed attentively at Vasenka's handsome face while he was vivaciously narrating something.
The
expression
of his face would have been hard and even cruel, but for a look of suffering which touched her.
'Where there are hawks, there is sure to be game.''Well then, gentlemen,' said Levin with a somewhat gloomy expression, pulling up his boots and examining his percussion caps, 'you see that sedge?'
A covert hostility had sprung up between the two brothers-in-law of late, as if being married to two sisters had evoked a sense of rivalry as to which of them would make the best of his life, and now this hostility found
expression
in the personal tone the discussion was assuming.
Anna noticed Dolly's expression, became confused, blushed, let her habit slip out of her hands, and stumbled over it.
The dark-browed, dark-haired, rosy little girl, with her firm ruddy little body covered with goose flesh, pleased Dolly very much, despite the severe
expression
with which she regarded the new visitor; she even felt a little envious of the child's healthy appearance.
'Yes, he is a very nice, good fellow,' she thought again and again, not listening to him but looking at him, understanding his expression, and mentally putting herself in Anna's place.
Alone with him she suddenly felt frightened: his laughing eyes and stern
expression
scared her.
I hate this falsehood!' he said with an energetic gesture of denial, and looked at Dolly with a gloomily questioning
expression.
'Certainly I will speak to her, for my own sake and for hers,' she said in reply to his
expression
of gratitude.
She also saw that at this conversation Vronsky's face immediately assumed a serious and obstinate
expression.
And in spite of her agitation Anna smiled on noticing the naive
expression
of curiosity, surprise and terror on Dolly's face.
He is now under the Countess Lydia Ivanovna's influence.'Dolly, sitting upright in her chair, with a pained
expression
of sympathy turned her head to follow Anna's movements.
But in her
expression
of restrained excitement, which concealed something, he detected nothing except that beauty which, though familiar, still captivated him, her consciousness of this, and her desire that it should act on him.
The
expression
of his face and his whole figure, in uniform with crosses and white trousers trimmed with gold lace, as he went hurriedly along, reminded Levin of a hunted animal conscious that things are going badly with him.
This
expression
on the Marshal's face touched Levin, particularly because, just the day before, he had been to his house about the wardship and had there seen him in all the dignity of a kind-hearted family man.
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