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'Oh, Kitty wished me to have a talk with you about Oblonsky,' he said, when Lvov paused on the stairs as he was seeing his wife and Levin down.
'How glad I am that you will make her acquaintance,' said he.'Do you know, Dolly has long wished it: and Lvov called on her and goes to see her.
Steve asked me to, and Dolly wished it,' continued Levin.
'Of course you wished to stay, and stayed.
Oblonsky was firmly convinced that the business he wished to serve was new, alive, and honest; but that morning when Bolgarinov, with obvious intention, made him wait two hours in his waiting-room with other petitioners, he had suddenly felt uncomfortable.
She wrote that she greatly wished to finish the conversation they had begun, and asked him to call next day.
To-day he had been away from home all day, and she had felt so lonely, and it was so painful to feel herself at discord with him, that she wished to forget it all, to forgive and make it up with him.
'Oh no, I shall not be ready myself,' she said, and immediately thought: 'So it was possible to arrange things as I wished!' – 'No, do as you wished to.
She wished to pretend to be looking for something on the table, but feeling ashamed of the pretence, looked straight into his face with a cold expression.
He even wished to stop and say a comforting word to her, but his legs carried him out of the room before he had thought of anything to say.
And recalling all the cruel words he had uttered, Anna invented other words which he evidently had wished to say and could have said to her, and she grew more and more exasperated.
'Annushka!' she said, stopping before the maid and looking at her, without knowing what she would say to her.'You wished to go to see the Princess Oblonskaya,' said the maid, apparently understanding her.
I can't!' she said to herself, and wished to cry.
She wished to get away as soon as possible from the feelings she experienced in that terrible house.
It was so clear to Anna that no one had any cause for joy that this laughter jarred on her painfully, and she wished to stop her ears, not to hear it.
She wished to rise, to throw herself back, but something huge and relentless struck her on the head and dragged her down.
I wished to speak to you about him.
All this put together produced on Katavasov a disagreeable impression, and when the Volunteers got out at a station to have a drink he wished to verify this unfavourable impression by a talk with somebody.
Feed it in evenly!'Theodore, black with the dust that stuck to his perspiring face, shouted something in reply, but still did not do as Levin wished.
And those words were enough to re-establish between the brothers the not exactly hostile, but cold, relations which Levin so wished to avoid.
If I wished them good evening to-day they would give me a hundred and fifty at once.
He could certainly not kiss her now, for she would, perhaps, think that he wished to behave like the other.
Chaval wished to speak, but he silenced him.
He did not know, but he wished to go down again to the mine, to suffer and to fight.
It was a known fact that when a miner wished to prolong his credit, he had only to send his daughter or his wife, plain or pretty, it mattered not, provided they were complaisant.
She wished to suggest to them the idea of the five-franc piece, and went on in her low voice, explaining the fatal debt, small at first, then large and overwhelming.
Then the young girl, moved by the mother's overwhelmed face, wished to do all she could for the children.
If Zacharie's mother wished to get her son's wages as long as possible, Philoméne's mother was enraged at the idea of abandoning her daughter's wages.
The two men simply wished each other good evening, the son taking the main road while the father went along by the canal.
After all, if the lad wished to avenge his sister it was not a bad example.
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