Anna Karenina Part 7 Chapter 9

In which Levin accompanies Stepan Arkadyevitch to visit Anna, a woman of remarkable composure and quietly complex circumstance, whose life is marked by a dignified struggle between society’s strictures and her own inner resources. They enter her modest study, where Levin is struck by a portrait that captures her enchanting presence, and then meets in person a woman whose living beauty and subtle charm both resemble and transcend the image before him.