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.
Ámbár ezekben a szavakban benne volt az ő magasztos érzelmeitől való meghatottság, s az az új és áhítatos, Péterváron csak nemrég elterjedt mysticus hangulat, a melyet Alexandrovics Alexej túlzottnak tartott, most mégis jól esett neki azt hallania.