Anna Karenina - Part 5

"Of course, not now," thought Levin, "but some day later on."

Levin felt more than ever now that there was something not clear

and not clean in his soul, and that, in regard to religion, he

was in the same position which he perceived so clearly and

disliked in others, and for which he blamed his friend Sviazhsky.

Levin spent that evening with his betrothed at Dolly's, and was

in very high spirits. To explain to Stepan Arkadyevitch the

state of excitement in which he found himself, he said that he

was happy like a dog being trained to jump through a hoop, who,

having at last caught the idea, and done what was required of

him, whines and wags its tail, and jumps up to the table and the

windows in its delight.