Chapter 30 (1/2)
What is love?
No one taught Karenin to love.
People don't take the initiative to teach others how to love. Like love this kind of unusual thing, mostly by a person to feel.
Love between parents can affect children. Love between friends helps you understand the diversity of love. The experience of growing up makes you understand gradually, so that in the end, everyone has his own definition of love.
If we say that in the course of ordinary people's growth, those experiences make them have a score of 80% on their perception of love.
That said to Karenin, maybe even passing is very dangerous.
His parents' early death, uncle's teaching style education, and Karenin's own strict and regular personality lead to his lack of understanding of love.
If Karenin agreed to Anna's proposal that day because of love at first sight, it was more like a curiosity of human beings than a challenge to Karenin.
And now, when he's holding his wife, as natural as human breath, he suddenly understands what love is.
Although this kind of cognition is still fragile like a bud, it must be rooted in the man's thinking and cognition with its most correct posture.
In this regard, rationality such as Karenin also has a more perceptual understanding.
It turns out that everyone should have the ability to love, but some people can always see the day when it breaks the ground and sprouts, while some people, because of passing by the right person, will never understand.
Karenin was holding his wife, and he didn't want to do anything at this moment.
His heart is experiencing earth shaking changes in thought, and on the surface, he does not allow himself to have a trace of it.
He listened to his wife's soft words and knew that she understood her mind. He felt as if he had spoken by himself.
His big dry hand stroked his wife's hair, which was soft and slightly curved. It was cool and thin when the hair brushed through the belly of his thumb.
The smell of hair oil, and the smell of wife.
Even the surrounding air seems to have been properly comforted, people feel that the body and mind have become smooth.
”It's very kind of you, Alexis. Even I think I'm a strange wife.” Anna sighed.
”Sometimes it is.”
Karenin said casually that at the moment, his rational thinking is processing the information received for him, and his perceptual thinking, which has been oppressed a little, is still content to immerse in that new cognition.
What Karenin wants to show her is not to show her more emotions.
She laughed because Karenin was always so honest and frank.
”I thought, maybe before or after, only you can stand me.”
Karenin was immersed in that new emotional experience, so instead of delving into the meaning of his wife's words, he told his wife that he did not think this kind of relationship belonged to the category of tolerance. It is better, as if he would agree to the proposal on that day, because he felt that it would be the right decision, something that would make him unable to find a reason to refuse since it was put in front of his eyes.
Since then, there has been a second and most important thing in Anna's life.
Karenin's attitude has shown that she will support her decision, so Anna plans to learn tailoring systematically.
If she really wants to make some achievements in clothing, she can't just rely on the advantages of the times to show off her cleverness.
At breakfast, Karenin suggested that he could invite Mrs. panaitov.
Mrs. Gorman was a seamstress, about fifty, and Anna asked her to help her change her dress. But Anna had different ideas about Karenin's proposal.
”I think Mr. Gorman is more suitable.”
”Mr. Gorman?” Karenin twisted his eyebrows gently.
Mr. Gorman is a popular man in Petersburg at present. He has been popular in the past two years.
It is said that this Mr. Gorman is less than 30 years old and very young. His clothes are very popular with ladies. Mr. Gorman also makes men's clothes, but it is obviously more suitable for young people who just come out to socialize. In Karenin's opinion, those clothes are indeed unique, but they are not suitable for government officials like him. Too frivolous to appear grave.
”I heard that he was very aloof and never accepted other people's invitation.” Karenin said.
”I know, so I'm not going to send him an invitation like anyone else.” Anna said, ”I'm not sure if Mr. Gorman didn't accept the invitation because of his pride or something, but I thought at least I could try visiting.”
”It's something to try.”
Anna cleaned herself up, didn't wear too gorgeous clothes, and then took anuska to Mr. Gorman's tailor's shop.
They went by carriage.It's been a while since I came to this era, but Anna hasn't really taken a good look.
She told Peter to stop in front of the tailor's shop, and she and anuska walked over.
Peter had some opinions on the hostess's words and said, ”madam, that's just a tailor.”
”You're right, but I need the help of this tailor right now.” Anna said with a faint smile, and then took anuska to go to the gaoman tailor's shop.
Because in the high rent area, so the shop interior decoration is also very grade. In order to set off the bright colors of the cloth, the whole shop uses rosewood with delicate and simple appearance, and some ready-made clothes have been put out for display.
Anna and anuska enter the store and see the man at the counter.
He was really strong, not much dressed, with a neck and two strong small arms, which was not the same as his thick appearance. When he looked up, his big brown eyes were very round.
Although Anna has always felt that she should not judge people by their appearance, it is rumored that the most popular tailor in Petersburg should be the one in front of her.
”Do you want ready-made clothes or custom clothes?” The young man sniffed and asked, but for his good looks, the action of sniffing would not have been polite.