Wishing
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Veslovsky,
wishing
to watch the shooting, had driven into the marsh, where the horses had stuck fast.
She was very sorry to grieve her sister and to do anything that was unpleasant to Levin: she felt that they were right in not
wishing
to have anything to do with Vronsky, but felt it her duty to visit Anna and show her that the altered circumstances could not change her own feelings toward her.
'I don't know, my lad.''There, you see, when you've turned to the left you'll knock straight up against it,' said the peasant, evidently unwilling to let them go, and
wishing
to talk.
Take your scythes and let's get to work.'CHAPTER XVIIIANNA WAS LOOKING AT DOLLY'S THIN WAN FACE with its dust-filled wrinkles, and
wishing
to tell her just what she thought: that Dolly looked thinner and worse.
Dolly was simply surprised at what she had never before seen, and
wishing
to understand it all, asked for information about every detail, which evidently gratified Vronsky.
'Yes, to tell you the truth, I don't like Veslovsky's manner,' said Dolly,
wishing
to change the subject.
Levin,
wishing
to enter fully into everything and not to miss anything, stood there too in the crowd, and heard the Governor say: 'Please tell Mary Ivanovna that my wife is very sorry she has to go to the Orphanage.'
Having eaten a cutlet and beans, and talked with the old man about his former masters, Levin, not
wishing
to return to the hall where he had felt so out of his element, went up into the gallery.
'Ah!Come here, you perfect children!' said Lvov to two little boys, who, after bowing to Levin, approached their father, evidently
wishing
to ask him something.
Wishing
to clear up his own perplexity by hearing other people's impressions, Levin went to look for the experts, and was pleased to find a celebrated one chatting with his own acquaintance, Pestsov.
'Levin, don't go,' he said, holding him tightly by the elbow, evidently not
wishing
to let him go on any account.
He would jump up,
wishing
to run away somewhere, but ran to her instead.
He had long ceased
wishing
for a child, and now he hated that child.
'Well, how are things?' said he,
wishing
to start a conversation, but not knowing what to say.
I understand that Alexis Alexandrovich's position...' said Oblonsky, not quite grasping what it was all about, and therefore
wishing
to keep to generalities.
Wishing
even to blame herself and to justify him, she said to herself:'I am to blame; I am irritable and unreasonably jealous.
There was nothing odd in his receiving a telegram, but, as if
wishing
to hide something from her, he told the man that the receipt was in his study and hastily turned to her, saying:'I shall certainly get everything ready to-morrow.'
How is your head – better?' he said quietly, not
wishing
to see or understand the gloomy and solemn look on her face.
'What a variety there is in the positions of all these men who are going there!'Katavasov remarked vaguely,
wishing
to express his own opinion but at the same time to draw the old man.
The handsome old man, with a black beard turning grey in places and thick silvery hair, stood motionless with a bowl of honey in his hand, gazing kindly and calmly down from his height at the gentlefolk, clearly neither understanding them nor
wishing
to understand.
I was just
wishing
to go when he became restless.
She swallowed a second mouthful and forced him to take one too,
wishing
to share, she said; and that little tin that went from one mouth to the other amused them.
He hastened the preparations for the ascent, not
wishing
to be hard, pretending not to hear.
In reality he refused out of good sense, not
wishing
to ask a farthing from his wife out of the change of the five-franc piece.
Seized by panic at the growing industrial crisis, and not
wishing
to augment their already considerable stock, they profited by the smallest pretexts to force their ten thousand workers to rest.
The Company added also that,
wishing
to leave every one time to convince himself of the advantages presented by this new scheme, they did not propose to apply it till Monday, the 1st of December.
He acted besides like a capricious tyrant, giving or refusing bread according to the look of the girl who was sent by her parents for provisions; and he especially closed his door spitefully to Maheude,
wishing
to punish her because he had not been able to get Catherine.
He was indignant at being accused of
wishing
to bring everything to confusion out of ambition; he struck his chest, protesting his brotherly feelings.
Wishing
to avoid the great expense of keeping it up, the Company, for the last ten years, had proposed to fill up this dead pit; but they were waiting to install an air-shaft in the Voreux, for the ventilation furnace of the two pits, which communicated, was placed at the foot of Réquillart, of which the former winding-shaft served as a conduit.
For fear of a greater disaster he hastened towards the engine,
wishing
at all events to bring the cages up, so that the cables, being cut above the shaft, should not smash them by falling down with their enormous weight.
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