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Levin pretended to be asleep, but Oblonsky, having put on his slippers and lit a cigar, left the barn, and their voices soon died away.
The birth of a son (he was certain it would be a son) which they promised him, but in which he still could not believe, so extraordinary did it seem, appeared to him on the one hand such an immense and therefore impossible happiness, and on the other such a mysterious event, that this pretended knowledge of what was going to happen and consequent preparations as for something ordinary, something produced by human beings, seemed to him an indignity and a degradation.
But not to disturb the others and to while away the time, after resting she rejoined the players and pretended to like it.
He feared this, but he so wished to avoid a scene that he pretended to believe, and to some extent sincerely believed, in what he wished to believe, namely, in her reasonableness.
Nevedovsky pretended not merely to be indifferent to but to despise this title; but it was evident that he felt happy and exercised self-control to avoid betraying a delight ill-suited to the new Liberal circle in which they found themselves.
The Countess Bol pretended to be listening.
The Frenchman slept or pretended to sleep, leaning his head against the back of the chair, and his moist hand lying on his knee moved feebly, as if catching something.
Next day he received from Karenin a definite refusal to divorce Anna, and understood that this decision was based on what the Frenchman had said the evening before, in his real or pretended sleep.
To Koznyshev as he approached it seemed that Vronsky saw but pretended not to see him.
He was a mild man who pretended not to interest himself in anything, so as not to vex either the workers or the masters.
The men passed the time of day, but the women pretended not to know each other.
He pretended to turn away; but little by little he knew her: the feet at first which his lowered eyes met; then a glimpse of a knee when she slid beneath the coverlet; then her bosom with little rigid breasts as she leant over the bowl in the morning.
Then they tried to resume their jokes: they pretended to put the rest of the sugar in their pockets, and talked of hiding the plate.
In the porch Pierron bowed very low, while Levaque pretended to adjust his cap.
Then, as soon as Maheude began to speak he pretended to be enraged.
The subsoil, like the soil, belonged to the nation: only an odious privilege gave the monopoly of it to the Companies; all the more since, at Montsou, the pretended legality of the concession was complicated by treaties formerly made with the owners of the old fiefs, according to the ancient custom of Hainault.
In defence, he pretended that Maheu had slipped beneath his door a threatening paper with two cross-bones and a dagger above.
First he went to take from a cupboard a jacket which he pretended to have forgotten.
At first the latter pretended not to understand, for there was ill luck even in speaking of her.
Ned Land still kept up the most tenacious skepticism; beyond his spells on watch, he pretended that he never even looked at the surface of the waves, at least while no whales were in sight.
Thinking it his duty to heap the greatest attention upon the doctor because of his sad position, he begged him not to take his hat off, spoke to him in an undertone as if he had been ill, and even pretended to be angry because nothing rather lighter had been prepared for him than for the others, such as a little clotted cream or stewed pears.
At dinner her husband thought she looked well, but she pretended not to hear him when he inquired about her ride, and she remained sitting there with her elbow at the side of her plate between the two lighted candles.
And he pretended not to notice her melancholy sighs, nor the handkerchief she took out.
She returned to the subject; he pretended not to understand, and turned the conversation.
Emma was not asleep; she pretended to be; and while he dozed off by her side she awakened to other dreams.
He pretended he had been guided towards her by chance, by, instinct.
Was this not preventing any inquiry, and, at the same time, assuming a higher ground through this pretended fascination exercised over a man who must have been of warlike nature and accustomed to receive homage?
And though he knew the poor devil, he pretended to see him for the first time, murmured something about "cornea," "opaque cornea," "sclerotic," "facies," then asked him in a paternal tone—"My friend, have you long had this terrible infirmity?
She yielded to his words, still more to his voice and the sight of him, so that, she pretended to believe, or perhaps believed; in the pretext he gave for their rupture; this was a secret on which depended the honour, the very life of a third person.
She pretended that she wanted to kill the rats that kept her from sleeping.
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