Though it was evident that she was touched by her own lofty sentiments, and though her words proceeded from that new, ecstatic, mystic influence which had lately spread through Petersburg and which Karenin had considered superfluous, it was pleasant to him to hear them now.
Sebbene in queste parole ci fosse la commozione di fronte ai propri elevati sentimenti e ci fosse quella nuova entusiastica disposizione mistica, recentemente diffusasi a Pietroburgo, che ad Aleksej Aleksandrovic era parsa oziosa, tuttavia in questo momento Aleksej Aleksandrovic provò piacere nel sentirle.