Anna Karenina - Part 5

But the fact that he had in this transient, trivial life made, as

it seemed to him, a few trivial mistakes tortured him as though

the eternal salvation in which he believed had no existence. But

this temptation did not last long, and soon there was

reestablished once more in Alexey Alexandrovitch's soul the peace

and the elevation by virtue of which he could forget what he did

not want to remember.