Spite
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And in
spite
of her agitation Anna smiled on noticing the naive expression of curiosity, surprise and terror on Dolly's face.
And besides,' added Anna, in
spite
of the abundance of her arguments and the poverty of Dolly's, apparently agreeing that it was not right, – 'don't forget the chief thing: that I am not in the same position as you!
Next morning, in
spite
of her hosts' entreaties, Dolly prepared to go home.
In
spite
of the tremendous sums the hospital, the machinery, the cows which he imported from Switzerland, and many other things were costing him, he was sure that he was not wasting his substance but increasing it.
Anna now acknowledged to herself that he was weary of her and would regret giving up his freedom to return to her; yet in
spite
of this she was glad that he would come.
Her truthful eyes told Levin that she was satisfied with herself, and in
spite
of her blushes he grew calm at once and began questioning her, which was just what she wanted.
But in
spite
of Oblonsky's wish and theirs they had nothing to say to one another, and both knew it.
How hot!' he said, throwing his already unfastened overcoat still wider open in
spite
of 12 degrees of frost.
The dispenser asked in German whether he might sell it and receiving permission from some one behind a screen took out a bottle and a funnel, slowly poured it from a large bottle into a small one, stuck on a label, and in
spite
of Levin's request that he should not do so sealed up the bottle, and was about to wrap it up.
'Lord, pardon and help us!' he kept repeating incessantly to himself, appealing to God, in
spite
of a long period of apparently complete estrangement, just as trustingly and simply as in the days of childhood and early youth.
And, in
spite
of his promise to Karenin, he could not refrain from speaking of Anna.
She waited for him all day, and in the evening when she went to her room, having left word for him that she had a headache, she thought: 'If he comes in
spite
of the maid's message, it means that he still loves me.
Levin read the second volume of them, and in
spite
of its polemical, polished, and witty style, which at first repelled him, he was struck by its teaching about the Church.
Levin knew, too, that on returning home the first thing he must do was to go to his wife, who was unwell, and that the peasants who had been waiting for three hours to see him could wait a little longer; and he knew that in
spite
of all the pleasure of hiving a swarm, he must forgo that pleasure, let the old beekeeper hive the swarm without him, and go to talk to the peasants who had found him at the apiary.
And I was surprised that, in
spite
of the greatest effort of thought on that path, the meaning of life, the meaning of my impulses and my aspirations, was not revealed to me.
At these words the brothers' eyes met, and Levin – in
spite
of the desire he always felt, and now more than ever, for friendly and especially for simple relations with his brother – felt ill at ease while looking at him.
And as, in
spite
of the bees, his physical powers remained intact, so his newly realized spiritual powers were intact also.
He might be about twenty-one years of age, a very dark, handsome man, who looked strong in
spite
of his thin limbs.
In
spite
of the keen cold outside, there was a living heat in the heavy air, that hot stuffiness of even the best kept bedrooms, the smell of human cattle.
The two youngsters, Lénore and Henri, in each other's arms, had not stirred, breathing in the same quiet way in
spite
of the noise.
In
spite
of the cleanliness, an odour of cooked onion, shut up since the night before, poisoned the hot, heavy air, always laden with an acrid flavour of coal.
He could not roll straight on these rails which sank in the damp earth, and he swore, became angry, and fought furiously with the wheels, which he could not get back into place in
spite
of exaggerated efforts.
The latter named little Lydie, a scamp who knew more than she ought, and who pushed her tram as stoutly as a woman in
spite
of her doll's arms.
Maheu, in
spite
of the anger which was gradually mastering him, still answered steadily:"If they paid us enough we should prop it better.
Pierron, in
spite
of his mawkish face, struck his daughter Lydie, because she had left the cutting before time.
He said aloud, as if in
spite
of himself:"I know him--Pluchart."
In
spite
of the hot-air stove which warmed the whole house, a coal fire enlivened this room.
In
spite
of the latter's slight importance, its powerful neighbour was enraged at seeing, enclosed within its own sixty-seven communes, this square league which did not belong to it, and after having vainly tried to kill it had plotted to buy it at a low price when in a failing condition.
In the school beside it, also of brick, one heard the faltering voices of the children, in
spite
of windows closed against the outside cold.
Madame Hennebeau was already getting tired, happy for a moment to amuse herself in the weariness of her exile by playing the part of exhibiting the beasts, but immediately disgusted by the sickly odour of wretchedness, in
spite
of the special cleanliness of the houses into which she ventured.
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