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The Secretary knocked, the door opened and two landowners with flushed faces plunged out past Levin.
When Nevedovsky left the hall the crowd surrounded him and followed him enthusiastically as it had followed the Governor of the Province on the first day, when he opened the meeting, and as it had followed Snetkov when he was successful.
But as soon as he entered the semi-circular courtyard, got out of his sledge and entered the porch, where he was met by a hall-porter with a shoulder-belt who noiselessly opened the door and bowed to him; as soon as he saw in the hall the coats and goloshes of those of the members who realized that it was easier to take off their goloshes downstairs than to go up in them; and as soon as he heard the mysterious ring of the bell that announced his ascent; and while mounting the shallow steps of the carpeted stairs perceived the statue on the landing, and saw upstairs the third hall-porter in club livery – whom he recognized, though the man had aged – who opened the door for him without haste or delay, gazing at the new arrival directly he saw all this, Levin was enveloped in the old familiar atmosphere of the place, an atmosphere of repose, ease, and propriety.
Without asking the porter who opened the door whether Anna was in, Oblonsky entered the hall.
Kitty's eyes opened in a peculiar manner and flashed at the mention of Anna's name, but making an effort she hid her agitation and so deceived him.
She even sat down near the lamp and opened a book, pretending to be tranquil.
The doors are opened beforehand...It's not easy to be the guard!''That's the one who stands up?' asked Oblonsky with a smile.
And having found the book and sat down again, she opened it.
But... 'She opened her mouth and changed her place in the carriage from agitation produced by a sudden thought.
The guard opened it to let in a husband and wife.
She opened it, and her heart sank even before she read it.
When he opened his dazzled eyes the first thing Levin saw with horror through the dense curtain of rain that now separated him from the Kolok was the strangely altered position of the green crown of a familiar oak in the middle of the wood.
Yes, it was certainly a pit; the occasional lanterns lighted up the square; a door, suddenly opened, had enabled him to catch sight of the furnaces in a clear light.
A final yawn opened her rather large mouth with splendid teeth against the chlorotic pallor of her gums; while her grey eyes were crying in her fight with sleep, with a look of painful distress and weariness which seemed to spread over the whole of her naked body.
He was putting on his breeches when an idea occurred to him, and he opened the window.
Catherine, who appeared absorbed in her household duties, must, however, have been thinking of the stories told by Zacharie about the head captain and the Pierron woman, for she half opened the front door and glanced outside.
The door opened, and her curiosity was aroused.
Farther on they reached crossways, where two new galleries opened, and the band divided again, the workers gradually entering all the stalls of the mine.
Maheu had not again opened his mouth.
The cutting opened out above like a large chimney, flat and oblique, in which the soot of ten years had amassed a profound night.
A lander opened the door, and a flood of workmen leapt out of the trams.
Suddenly the door opened, and a loud voice called out:"Hallo!
Maigrat lived close to the manager; only a wall separated the latter's ground from his own small house, and he had there a warehouse, a long building which opened on to the road as a shop without a front.
From their mother's skirts the little ones opened their eyes wide and gazed at the brioche.
They were making soup, chimneys were smoking, a woman appeared at distant intervals along the fronts, opened a door and disappeared.
The decorated gentleman and the lady in the fur cloak, arrived that morning by train from Paris, opened their eyes vaguely, exhibiting on their faces their astonishment at all these new things which took them out of their element.
The broken palings opened to every one the old yard, now become a nondescript piece of ground, obstructed by the ruins of the two sheds which had fallen in, and by the skeletons of the large buttresses which were still standing.
Windows and doors, opened wide in the fine weather, gave glimpses of rows of parlours which were filled with movement and shouts and the chatter of families.
Father Bonnemort only, if he was there, opened his eyes with surprise, for in his time people used not to worry about things; they were born in the coal and they hammered at the seam, without asking for more; while now there was an air stirring which made the colliers ambitious.
The doors opened, women appeared, crying aloud outside, as if their complaints could not be held beneath the ceilings of these small houses.
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