Levin noticed, indeed, that all that day the patient pulled at himself, as it were, trying to snatch something away.

Marya Nikolaevna's prediction came true.

Towards night the sick man was not able to lift his hands, and could only gaze before him with the same intensely concentrated expression in his eyes.

Even when his brother or Kitty bent over him, so that he could see them, he looked just the same.