He's too pure, too exalted a nature.

" "Why? Would this lower him, then?" "No, but he's so used to a spiritual life that he can't reconcile himself with actual fact, and Varenka is after all fact.

" Levin had grown used by now to uttering his thought boldly, without taking the trouble of clothing it in exact language.

He knew that his wife, in such moments of loving tenderness as now, would understand what he meant to say from a hint, and she did understand him.