Anna Karenina - LimpidSoft

PART SEVEN CHAPTER 13
hinder his turning to God. All of that now floated out of his soul like dust. To whom
was he to turn if not to Him in whose hands he felt himself, his soul, and his love?
The horse was not yet ready, but feeling a peculiar concentration of his physical
forces and his intellect on what he had to do, he started off on foot without waiting
for the horse, and told Kouzma to overtake him.
At the corner he met a night cabman driving hurriedly. In the little sledge,
wrapped in a velvet cloak, sat Lizaveta Petrovna with a kerchief round her head.
“Thank God! thank God!” he said, overjoyed to recognize her little fair face which
wore a peculiarly serious, even stern expression. Telling the driver not to stop, he
ran along beside her.
“For two hours, then? Not more?” she inquired. “You should let Pyotr
Dmitrievitch know, but don’t hurry him. And get some opium at the chemist’s.”
“So you think that it may go on well? Lord have mercy on us and help us!” Levin
said, seeing his own horse driving out of the gate. Jumping into the sledge beside
Kouzma, he told him to drive to the doctor’s.
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