The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy (Volume 10) (9781235264924)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1904. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... PART THE FOURTH L The Kar DEGREESnins, husband and wife, continued to live in DEGREES the same house, meeting every day, but remaining complete strangers to each other. Aleksyey Aleksandrovich made it his invariable rule to see his wife every day, in order to give the servants no cause for suspicions, but he avoided dining at home. Vrdnski never came to thev DEGREES house, but Anna saw him elsewhere, and her husband knew it. The situation was painful for all three of them, and not one of them would have been able to persist one day in this situation, if they had not expected things to change and had not looked upon it as a temporary, grievous complication, which would soon pass. Aleksyey Aleksdndrovich waited for this passion to come to an end, just as everything comes to an end; he thought that all would forget it, and his name would remain unpolluted. Anna, on whom this situation depended, and for whom it was most painful, bore it only because she not only waited, but was even firmly convinced that all this would soon be disentangled and cleared up. Vrdnski, who involuntarily surrendered himself to her, was also waiting for something to happen which was independent of him, and which would clear up all the difficulties. In the middle of winter Vrdnski passed a very lonely week. He was attached to a foreign prince who was visiting St. Petersburg, and had to show him all the sights of the city. The reason he was attached to the prince was that he had a representative figure, and, besides, possessed the art of bearing himself with dignified respect and had been in the habit of meeting such persons. But this duty seemed extremely irksome to him. The prince did not wish to miss anything about which they might ask him at home whether he had seen it in Russia, and himsel

Product details

• Format Paperback | 130 pages
• Dimensions 189 x 246 x 7mm | 245g
• Publication date 13 Jan 2012
• Publisher General Books
• Publication City/Country United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note Illustrations, black and white
• ISBN10 1235264920
• ISBN13 9781235264924

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