“She was an honorable woman who had bestowed her love upon him, and he loved her, and therefore she was in his eyes a woman who had a right to the same, or even more, respect than a lawful wife. He would have had his hand chopped off before he would have allowed himself by a word, by a hint, to humiliate her, or even to fall short of the fullest respect a woman could look for..”
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Notes:
I can’t think she’s honorable for having an affair, or think he should respect her more than his wife. I can’t find this...
