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It would have been easier after a silence to say what they wished to say than after talking about mushrooms; yet against her will, and as if by accident, she said:'So you have not found anything?
He wished to bring her back to her first remark about her childhood; but without wishing to, after a pause, he replied to her last words:'I have only heard that the white boleti grow chiefly on the outskirts, but I can't even tell which are the white ones.'
Levin was vexed with Oblonsky for carelessly leaving it to the boy's mother to look after his lessons which she did not understand, instead of doing it himself, and he was vexed with the masters also for teaching the children so badly; but he promised his sister-in-law to give the lessons in the way she wished.
When they came to a small marsh he wished to drive past it, but Oblonsky, with the practised eye of a sport man, noticed the marshy place from the road.
When they got to the real marsh, the object of their journey, Levin involuntarily wished to rid himself of Vasenka and go about unhindered.
She wished to put an end to the conversation, but did not know how.
They were in a passage, and Kitty wished to enter the next room; but the English governess was there, giving Tanya a lesson.
'I wished...'He stopped, but suddenly remembering Kitty and all that had happened, he said, looking Veslovsky firmly in the eyes: 'I have ordered the horses to be harnessed for you.''What do you mean?'Vasenka began with surprise.
Why, do you imagine that if a young man...'But the place where the fly had stung Levin was evidently still sore, for he again grew pale when Oblonsky wished to refer to his reason, and hastily interrupted him.
Not as I wished to love, but still I do love him; but Anna did not love hers.
The clerk wished to get down, but then, changing his mind, shouted authoritatively and beckoned to a peasant.
Having evidently understood it in the sense she wished, she glanced at Dolly.
You wished to ask about her name?
Anna wished to get the baby her toy and could not find it.
Or possibly about Kitty, and that he feels guilty toward her?'Everything she surmised was unpleasant, but she did not hit on what he actually wished to speak about.
She wished to be alone with her thoughts.
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.
Levin did not see why his party should ask the Marshal to stand, when they wished to defeat him.
Levin understood, but not fully, and wished to put some further questions when suddenly every one began talking at once, and moving noisily toward the Large Hall.
It seemed to Levin that Snetkov wished to say something but could not speak from agitation.
Now the old man seemed touching and pathetic to Levin and he wished to say something pleasant to him.
The elections themselves interested him so much that he began to think that if he were married by the next triennial election he would himself put up, just as, when a jockey had won him a prize, he had wished to ride a race himself.
The Governor asked Vronsky to accompany him to a concert in aid of a 'Brotherhood,' which was being arranged by his wife, who wished to make Vronsky's acquaintance.
I wished to come myself, but changed my mind knowing that you would not like it.
Give me some reply that I may know what to do.'Baby was ill, and she wished to come herself?
True, there was one means, not of holding him – for that purpose she wished for nothing except his love – but of putting herself in such a position that he could not abandon her.
Annie was ill, yet you wished to come yourself!''That was all true.''I don't doubt it.'
'I only wished to say that one may have unavoidable business.
The old Princess, Mary Borisovna, Kitty's godmother, who had always been very fond of her, particularly wished to see her.
He was really dissatisfied, not because they had spent so much but because he had been reminded of a matter which, well knowing that something was wrong, he wished to forget.
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