...out them. This is, I believe, a state of things only possible with English people of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of th... ...llows. I don’t mean to say that we were not acquainted with many En- glish people. Living, as we perforce lived, in Europe, and being, as we perforce ... ...a provided yearly winter quar- ters for us, and Nauheim always received us from July to Septem- ber. You will gather from this statement that one of u... ... from this statement that one of us had, as the saying is, a “heart”, and, from the statement that my wife is dead, that she was the sufferer. Captain... ...th, the two months or so were only just enough to keep poor Florence alive from year to year. The reason for his heart was, approximately, polo, or to... ...ing more particularly what in England it is the custom to call “quite good people”. They were descended, as you will probably expect, from the Ashburn... ...rdy too. It was a measuring look; a challenging look. Once when we were at Wiesbaden watching him play in a polo match against the Bonner Hussaren I s...

...sible to know anybody, and yet, in another sense, we knew nothing at all about them. This is, I believe, a state of things only possible with English people of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of this sad affair, I knew nothing whatever. Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart...

...elt that there was so sense in their living to- gether, and that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn had more in common with one an... ...sleeping in his wife’s room, but in his study, and why: the smile vanished from his face, he knitted his brows. “Ah, ah, ah! Oo!...” he muttered, reca... ...asant of all was the first minute when, on coming, happy and good-humored, from the theater, 5 Tolstoy with a huge pear in his hand for his wife, he ... ... wife’s words. There happened to him at that instant what does hap- pen to people when they are unexpectedly caught in something very disgraceful. He ... ...self. All he repented of was that he had not succeeded better in hiding it from his wife. But he felt all the difficulty of his position and was sorry... ...that religion is only a curb to keep in check the barbarous classes of the people; and Stepan Arkadyevitch could not get through even a short service ... ...the household. He read, too, that Count Beist was rumored to have left for Wiesbaden, and that one need have no more gray hair, and of the sale of a l...

...ly and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every person in the house felt that there was so sense in their living together, and that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn had more in common with one another than they, the members of the family and household of the Oblonskys....

...graphy blindly in, but enter considerately, or, if we see good, keep aloof from it altogether. Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but ... ... in the depths of his own con- sciousness, or be betrumpeted and beshouted from end to end of the habitable globe. These are plain truths, which no on... ...oice, how feeble soever, how unheeded soever, against the common delusion; from which, if he can save, or help to save any mortal, his endeavours will... ... an interruption, he said that tragedy ought to be the school of kings and peoples; that there was no subject worthier of treatment than the death of ... ... a commotion in our young heads that was not easily settled. But the young people felt the in- convenience less, because they had somewhat more space ... ...urts, and back buildings extend to the Zwinger; and we saw many thou- sand people amid their little domestic and secluded circum- stances. From the or... ...er and farther into the distance. Königstein, too, was not left unvisited; Wiesbaden, Schwalbach, with its environs, occupied us many days; we reached...