“The lawyer’s grey eyes tried not to laugh, but they leaped with irrepressible joy, and Alexei Alexandrovich could see that his was not only the joy of a man who was receiving a profitable commission—here there was triumph and delight, there was a gleam that resembled the sinister gleam he had seen in his wife’s eyes.”

—Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, 1877, translated by Richar Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, 2000.