Though it was evident that she was touched by her own lofty sentiments, and though her words proceeded from that new, ecstatic, mystic influence which had lately spread through Petersburg and which Karenin had considered superfluous, it was pleasant to him to hear them now.
Aunque en tales palabras había aquella exagerada humildad ante los propios sentimientos y aquel estado de espíritu místico, nuevo, exaltado, introducido desde hacía poco en San Petersburgo, y que a Karenin le parecía superfluo, el oír en labios de la Condesa, y en aquel momento, le conmovió.