Kitty tried in every possible way to relieve him, to soothe him; but it was all in vain, and Levin saw that she herself was exhausted both physically and morally, though she would not admit it.

The sense of death, which had been evoked in all by his taking leave of life on the night when he had sent for his brother, was broken up.

Everyone knew that he must inevitably die soon, that he was half dead already.