Анна Кареніна

Chapter 14

           

           “Certainly,yourexcellency;teatobeservedinthestudy?”

           AlexeyAlexandrovitchorderedteatobebroughttothestudy,andplayingwiththemassivepaper-knife,hemovedtohiseasychair,nearwhichtherehadbeenplacedreadyforhimalampandtheFrenchworkonEgyptianhieroglyphicsthathehadbegun.OvertheeasychairtherehunginagoldframeanovalportraitofAnna,afinepaintingbyacelebratedartist.AlexeyAlexandrovitchglancedatit.Theunfathomableeyesgazedironicallyandinsolentlyathim.InsufferablyinsolentandchallengingwastheeffectinAlexeyAlexandrovitch’seyesoftheblacklaceaboutthehead,admirablytouchedinbythepainter,theblackhairandhandsomewhitehandwithonefingerlifted,coveredwithrings.Afterlookingattheportraitforaminute,AlexeyAlexandrovitchshudderedsothathislipsquiveredandheutteredthesound“brrr,”andturnedaway.Hemadehastetositdowninhiseasychairandopenedthebook.Hetriedtoread,buthecouldnotrevivetheveryvividinteresthehadfeltbeforeinEgyptianhieroglyphics.Helookedatthebookandthoughtofsomethingelse.Hethoughtnotofhiswife,butofacomplicationthathadariseninhisofficiallife,whichatthetimeconstitutedthechiefinterestofit.Hefeltthathehadpenetratedmoredeeplythaneverbeforeintothisintricateaffair,andthathehadoriginatedaleadingideahecouldsayitwithoutself-flatterycalculatedtoclearupthewholebusiness,tostrengthenhiminhisofficialcareer,todiscomfithisenemies,andtherebytobeofthegreatestbenefittothegovernment.

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