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Now as he listened to her question he interpreted it in his own way.
Now, as he listened to him, Levin felt ashamed of his injustice toward him the day before.
These were the very arguments Dolly had put to herself, but now she listened without understanding them.
He listened to what the steward had to say and questioned him, but only consented when the things to be ordered or built were the latest, as yet unknown in Russia, and likely to astonish people.
Levin, leaning over the balustrade, looked on and listened.
'Well, good-bye, darling!''But, really, sometimes I am sorry I listened to Mama!How nice it would have been in the country!
Levin listened reluctantly and at first made objections.
But afterwards, having convinced himself that they looked at the question so differently that they would never understand one another, he ceased making objections and merely listened.
Though the biography of the scientist did not interest Levin, he listened involuntarily and learned a few interesting facts about the celebrated man's life.
But the longer he listened to the King Lear fantasia, the further he felt from the possibility of forming any definite opinion.
Levin sat down for a while and listened, but remembering all the conversations he had that day heard, he suddenly felt terribly bored.
About me?'Levin wondered; and he was so excited about what she might be saying to Oblonsky that he hardly listened to what Vorkuyev was telling him about the merits of Anna's story for children.
He listened and talked, and all the time thought of her, of her inner life, trying to guess her feelings.
All the events had consisted of conversations: conversations to which he had listened or in which he had taken part.
But, not to hinder his relating everything, she masked her observation and listened with an appreciative smile while he told her how he had spent the evening.
He listened to the doctor's tale and understood it.
Levin listened to them and at the same time involuntarily thought of the past and of what had been going on before that morning, remembering himself as he had been yesterday before this event.
He listened smilingly to the young man and tried to stop him.
And Levin was struck by the quiet dull disbelief with which the children listened to these remarks from their mother.
Koznyshev too was in good spirits and at tea, led on by his brother, expounded his views of the future of the Eastern question, and did it so simply and well that every one listened attentively.
And then instead of that, nothing but repulsion and pity...'She listened attentively, replacing on her slender fingers, across the baby, the rings she had taken off to bath Mitya.
Levin listened to the rhythmical dripping of raindrops from the lime trees in the garden, and looked at a familiar triangular constellation and at the Milky Way which with its branches intersected it.
The engine-man, standing at his post, listened to the ringing of the signals, and his eye never moved from the indicator where the shaft was figured, with its different levels, by a vertical groove traversed by shot hanging to strings, which represented the cages; and at each departure, when the machine was put in motion, the drums--two immense wheels, five metres in radius, by means of which the two steel cables were rolled and unrolled-- turned with such rapidity that they became like grey powder.
Deneulin listened with a constrained smile.
He was calm and unbent, and listened with a nod of approval to the sensible advice of Maheude, who showed much common sense in such affairs.
"By God! if my daughter had listened to me!It's not enough for them to kill the father.
Alzire listened between Lénore and Henri, who were sleeping on the edge of the table.
And he listened for five minutes to the general secretary, a tall sallow gentleman, who spoke to him over the papers of his bureau without rising.
With his ear pressed against the rocks he listened; and, at last, said those sounds could not come from a child.
The first listened to the captain's narrative with an exasperated air.
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