Anna Karenina - LimpidSoft

PART FIVE CHAPTER 6
she did. She was charming with the new radiance of happiness in her face. Levin
longed to say something to her, but he did not know whether it was all over. The
priest got him out of his difficulty. He smiled his kindly smile and said gently, “Kiss
your wife, and you kiss your husband,” and took the candles out of their hands.
Levin kissed her smiling lips with timid care, gave her his arm, and with a new
strange sense of closeness, walked out of the church. He did not believe, he could
not believe, that it was true. It was only when their wondering and timid eyes met
that he believed in it, because he felt that they were one.
After supper, the same night, the young people left for the country.
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