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I have to keep the peace between them. Again I call out all my diplomacy, and again as soon as
the thing was about at an end, our friend the government clerk gets hot and red, and his sausages
stand on end with wrath, and once more I launch out into diplomatic wiles.”
“Ah, he must tell you this story!” said Betsy, laughing, to a lady to came into her box. “He has
been making me laugh so.”
“Well, bonne chance!” she added, giving Vronsky one finger of the hand in which she held her
fan, and with a shrug of her shoulders she twitched down the bodice of her gown that had worked
up, so as to be duly naked as she moved forward towards the footlights into the light of the gas,
and the sight of all eyes.
Vronsky drove to the French theater, where he really had to see the colonel of his regiment, who
never missed a single performance there. He wanted to see him, to report on the result of his
mediation, which had occupied and amused him for the last three days. Petritsky,cheap rs money, whom he liked,
was implicated in the affair, and the other culprit was a capital fellow and first-rate comrade, who
had lately joined the regiment, the young Prince Kedrov. And what was most important, the
interests of the regiment were involved in it too.
Both the young men were in Vronsky’s company. The colonel of the regiment was waited upon by
the government clerk, Venden,warcraft gold, with a complaint against his officers, who had insulted his wife.
His young wife, so Venden told the story–he had been married half a year–was at church with her
mother, and suddenly overcome by indisposition, arising from her interesting condition, she could
not remain standing, she drove home in the first sledge, a smart-looking one,world of warcraft gold, she came across. On
the spot the officers set off in pursuit of her; she was alarmed, and feeling still more unwell, ran up
the staircase home. Venden himself, on returning from his office, heard a ring at their bell and
voices, went out, and seeing the intoxicated officers with a letter, he had turned them out. He
asked for exemplary punishment.
“Yes, it’s all very well,” said the colonel to Vronsky, whom he had invited to come and see him.
“Petritsky’s becoming impossible. Not a week goes by without some scandal. This government
clerk won’t let it drop, he’ll go on with the thing.”
Vronsky saw all the thanklessness of the business, and that there could be no question of a duel in
it, that everything must be done to soften the government clerk,rappelz gold, and hush the matter up. The
colonel had called in Vronsky just because he knew him to be an honorable and intelligent man,
and, more than all, a man who cared for the honor of the regiment. They talked it over, and
decided that Petritsky and Kedrov must go with Vronsky to Venden’s to apologize. The colonel
and Vronsky were both fully aware that Vronsky’s name and rank would be sure to contribute
greatly to softening of the injured husband’s feelings.
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of a girl, or of any woman free to marry, might be ridiculous. But the position of a man pursuing a
married woman, and, regardless of everything, staking his life on drawing her into adultery, has
something fine and grand about it, and can never be ridiculous; and so it was with a proud and gay
smile under his mustaches that he lowered the opera glass and looked at his cousin.
“But why was it you didn’t come to dinner?” she said, admiring him.
“I must tell you about that. I was busily employed, and doing what, do you suppose? I’ll give you a
hundred guesses, a thousand…you’d never guess. I’ve been reconciling a husband with a man
who’d insulted his wife. Yes, really!”
“Well, did you succeed?”
“Almost.”
“You really must tell me about it,” she said, getting up. “Come to me in the next entr’acte.”
“I can’t; I’m going to the French theater.”
“From Nilsson?” Betsy queried in horror, though she could not herself have distinguished
Nilsson’s voice from any chorus girl’s.
“Can’t help it. I’ve an appointment there,buy rose online zulie, all to do with my mission of peace.”
” Blessed are the peacemakers; theirs is the kingdom of heaven,’” said Betsy, vaguely recollecting
she had heard some similar saying from someone. “Very well, then, sit down, and tell me what it’s
all about.”
And she sat down again.
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“This is rather indiscreet, but it’s so good it’s an awful temptation to tell the story,” said Vronsky,warcraft gold,
looking at her with his laughing eyes. “I’m not going to mention any names.”
“But I shall guess, so much the better.”
“Well, listen: two festive young men were driving-”
“Officers of your regiment, of course?”
“I didn’t say they were officers,–two young men who had been lunching.”
“In other words, drinking.”
“Possibly. They were driving on their way to dinner with a friend in the most festive state of mind.
And they beheld a pretty woman in a hired sledge; she overtakes them, looks round at them, and,wow gold,
so they fancy anyway, nods to them and laughs. They, of course, follow her. They gallop at full
speed. To their amazement,cheap rs money, the fair one alights at the entrance of the very house to which they
were going. The fair one darts upstairs to the top story. They get a glimpse of red lips under a

friends and close ties in three different circles of this highest society. One circle was her husband’s
government official set, consisting of his colleagues and subordinates, brought together in the
most various and capricious manner, and belonging to different social strata. Anna found it
difficult now to recall the feeling of almost awe-stricken reverence which she had at first
entertained for these persons. Now she knew all of them as people know one another in a country
town; she knew their habits and weaknesses, and where the shoe pinched each one of them. She
knew their relations with one another and with the head authorities, knew who was for whom, and
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how each one maintained his position,warcraft gold, and where they agreed and disagreed. But the circle of
political,cheap rappelz gold, masculine interests had never interested her, in spite of countess Kidia Ivanovna’s
influence, and she avoided it.
Another little set with which Anna was in close relations was the one by means of which Alexey
Alexandrovitch had made his career. The center of this circle was the Countess Lidia Ivanovna. It
was a set made up of elderly,rohan crone, ugly, benevolent, and godly women, and clever, learned, and
ambitious men. One of the clever people belonging to the set had called it “the conscience of
Petersburg society.” Alexey Alexandrovitch had the highest esteem for this circle, and Anna with
her special gift for getting on with everyone, had in the early days of her life in Petersburg made
friends in this circle also. Now, since her return from Moscow, she had come to feel this set
insufferable. It seemed to her that both she and all of them were insincere, and she fell so bored
and ill at ease in that world that she went to see the Countess Lidia Ivanovna as little as possible.
The third circle with which Anna had ties was preeminently the fashionable world–the world of
balls, of dinners, of sumptuous dresses, the world that hung on to the court with one hand, so as to
avoid sinking to the level of the demi-monde. For the demi-monde the members of that
fashionable world believed that they despised, though their tastes were not merely similar, but in
fact identical. Her connection with this circle was kept up through Princess Betsy Tverskaya, her
cousin’s wife, who had an income of a hundred and twenty thousand roubles, and who had taken a
great fancy to Anna ever since she first came out, showed her much attention,rs money, and drew her into
her set, making fun of Countess Kidia Ivanovna’s coterie.
“When I’m old and ugly I’ll be the same,” Betsy used to say; “but for a pretty young woman like
you it’s early days for that house of charity.”
Anna had at first avoided as far as she could Princess Tverskaya’s world, because it necessitated
an expenditure beyond her means, and besides in her heart she preferred the first circle. But since
her visit to Moscow she had done quite the contrary. She avoided her serious-minded friends, and
went out into the fashionable world. There she met Vronsky, and experienced an agitating joy at

husband.” Only now for the first time did Vronsky realize clearly the fact that there was a person
attached to her, a husband. He knew that she had a husband, but had hardly believed in his
existence, and only now fully believed in him, with his head and shoulders, and his legs clad in
black trousers; especially when he saw this husband calmly take her arm with a sense of property.
Seeing Alexey Alexandrovitch with his Petersburg face and severely self-confident figure, in his
round hat, with his rather prominent spine,buy knight money, he believed in him, and was aware of a disagreeable
sensation, such as a man might feel tortured by thirst,last chaos gold, who, on reaching a spring, should find a
dog, a sheep, or a pig, who has drunk of it and muddied the water. Alexey Alexandrovitch’s
manner of walking, with a swing of the hips and flat feet, particularly annoyed Vronsky. He could
recognize in no one but himself an indubitable right to love her. But she was still the same, and the
sight of her affected him the same way, physically reviving him, stirring him, and filling his soul
with rapture. He told his German valet, who ran up to him from the second class, to take his things
and go on,runescape power leveling, and he himself went up to her. He saw the first meeting between the husband and wife,
and noted with a lover’s insight the signs of slight reserve with which she spoke to her husband.
“No, she does not love him and cannot love him,” he decided to himself.
At the moment when he was approaching Anna Arkadyevna he noticed too with joy that she was
conscious of his being near, and looked round, and seeing him, turned again to her husband.
“Have you passed a good night?” he asked, bowing to her and her husband together, and leaving it
up to Alexey Alexandrovitch to accept the bow on his own account, and to recognize it or not, as
he might see fit.
“Thank you,warcraft gold, very good,” she answered.
Her face looked weary, and there was not that play of eagerness in it, peeping out in her smile and
her eyes; but for a single instant, as she glanced at him, there was a flash of something in her eyes,
and although the flash died away at once, he was happy for that moment. She glanced at her
husband to find out whether he knew Vronsky. Alexey Alexandrovitch looked at Vronsky with
displeasure, vaguely recalling who this was. Vronsky’s composure and self-confidence have
struck, like a scythe against a stone, upon the cold self-confidence of Alexey Alexandrovitch.
“Count Vronsky,” said Anna.
“Ah! We are acquainted, I believe,” said Alexey Alexandrovitch indifferently, giving his hand.
“You set off with the mother and you return with the son,” he said, articulating each syllable, as
though each were a separate favor he was bestowing.
“You’re back from leave, I suppose?” he said, and without waiting for a reply, he turned to his
wife in his jesting tone: “Well, were a great many tears shed at Moscow at parting?”
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what had happened at Moscow…. “Well, there’s nothing to be done…. It’s not my fault. But now
everything shall go on in a new way. It’s nonsense to pretend that life won’t let one, that the past
won’t let one. One must struggle to live better, much better.”… He raised his head, and fell to
dreaming. Old Laska, who had not yet fully digested her delight at his return, and had run out into
the yard to bark, came back wagging her tail, and crept up to him, bringing in the scent of fresh
air, put her head under his hand, and whined plaintively,warcraft gold, asking to be stroked.
“There, who’d have thought it?” said Agafea Mihalovna. “The dog now…why,everquest 2 power leveling, she understands
that her master’s come home, and that he’s low-spirited.”
“Why low-spirited?”
“Do you suppose I don’t see it,buy rs money, sir? It’s high time I should know the gentry. Why,eve isk, I’ve grown up
from a little thing with them. It’s nothing, sir, so long as there’s health and a clear conscience.”
Levin looked intently at her, surprised at how well she knew his thought.
“Shall I fetch you another cup?” said she, and taking his cup she went out.
Laska kept poking her head under his hand. He stroked her, and she promptly curled up at his feet,
laying her head on a hindpaw. And in token of all now being well and satisfactory, she opened her
mouth a little, smacked her lips, and settling her sticky lips more comfortably about her old teeth,
she sank into blissful repose. Levin watched all her movements attentively.
“That’s what I’ll do,” he said to himself; “that’s what I’ll do! Nothing’s amiss…. All’s well.”
Chapter 28
After the ball, early next morning, Anna Arkadyevna sent her husband a telegram that she was
leaving Moscow the same day.
“No, I must go, I must go”; she explained to her sister-in-law the change in her plans in a tone that
suggested that she had to remember so many things that there was no enumerating them: “no, it
had really better be today!”
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Stepan Arkadyevitch was not dining at home, but he promised to come and see his sister off at
seven o’clock.
Kitt y, too, did not come, sending a note that she had a headache. Dolly and Anna dined alone with
the children and the English governess. Whether it was that the children were fickle, or that they
had acute senses, and felt that Anna was quite different that day from what she had been when
they had taken such a fancy to her, that she was not now interested in them,–but they had abruptly
dropped their play with their aunt, and their love for her, and were quite indifferent that she was

glanced wonderingly at him. He flushed slightly,buy aoc gold, and hurriedly asked her to waltz, but he had only
just put his arm round her waist and taken the first step when the music suddenly stopped. Kitty
looked into his face, which was so close to her own, and long afterwards–for several years after–
that look, full of love, to which he made no response, cut her to the heart with an agony of shame.
“Pardon! pardon! Waltz! waltz!” shouted Korsunsky from the other side of the room, and seizing
the first young lady he came across he began dancing himself.
Chapter 23
Vronsky and Kitty waltzed several times round the room. After the first waltz Kitty went to her
mother, and she had hardly time to say a few words to Countess Nordston when Vronsky came up
again for the first quadrille. During the quadrille nothing of any significance was said: there was
disjointed talk between them of the Korsunskys,warcraft gold, husband and wife, whom he described very
amusingly, as delightful children at forty,runescape power leveling, and of the future town theater; and only once the
conversation touched her to the quick,conan power leveling, when he asker her about Levin, whether he was here, and
added that he liked him so much. But Kitty did not expect much from the quadrille. She looked
forward with a thrill at her heart to the mazurka. She fancied that in the mazurka everything must
be decided. The fact that he did not during the quadrille ask her for the mazurka did not trouble
her. She felt sure she would dance the mazurka with him as she had done at former balls, and
refused five young men, saying she was engaged for the mazurka. The whole ball up to the last
quadrille was for Kitty an enchanted vision of delightful colors, sounds, and motions. she only sat
down when she felt too tired and begged for a rest. But as she was dancing the last quadrille with
one of the tiresome young men whom she could not refuse, she chanced to be vis-a-vis with
Vronsky and Anna. She had not been near Anna again since the beginning of the evening, and
now again she saw her suddenly quite new and surprising. She saw in her the signs of that
excitement of success she knew so well in herself; she saw that she was intoxicated with the
delighted admiration she was exciting. She knew that feeling and knew its signs, and saw them in
Anna; saw the quivering, flashing light in her eyes, and the smile of happiness and excitement
unconsciously playing on her lips, and the deliberate grace, precision, and lightness of her
“Who?” she asked herself. “All or one?” And not assisting the harassed young man she was
dancing with in the conversation, the thread of which he had lost and could not pick up again, she
obeyed with external liveliness the peremptory shouts of Korsunsky starting them all into the
grand round, and then into the chaine, and at the same time she kept watch with a growing pang at
her heart. “No, it’s not the admiration of the crowd has intoxicated her, but the adoration of one.
And that one? can it be he?” Every time he spoke to Anna the joyous light flashed into her eyes,
and the smile of happiness curved her red lips. she seemed to make an effort to control herself, to
try not to show these signs of delight, but they came out on her face of themselves. “But what of
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arrived, so that she did not hear the bell.
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Catching a sound of skirts and light steps at the door, she looked round, and her care-worn face
unconsciously expressed not gladness,ragnarok online zeny, but wonder. She got up and embraced her sister-in-law.
“What, here already!” she said as she kissed her.
“Dolly, how glad I am to see you!”
“I am glad, too,” said Dolly, faintly smiling, and trying by the expression of Anna’s face to find
out whether she knew. “Most likely she knows,” she thought, noticing the sympathy in Anna’s
face. “Well,warcraft gold, come along, I’ll take you to your room,” she went on, trying to defer as long as
possible the moment of confidences.
“Is this Grisha? Heavens, how he’s grown!” said Anna; and kissing him, never taking her eyes off
Dolly, she stood still and flushed a little. “No, please, let us stay here.”
She took off her kerchief and her hat, and catching it in a lock of her black hair, which was a mass
of curls, she tossed her head and shook her hair down.
“You are radiant with health and happiness!” said Dolly, almost with envy.
“I?…. Yes,” said Anna. “Merciful heavens, Tanya! You’re the same age as my Seryozha,” she
added, addressing the little girl as she ran in. She took her in her arms and kissed her. “Delightful
child, delightful! Show me them all.”
She mentioned them, not only remembering the names, but the years, months, characters,cheap ragnarok zeny, illnesses
of all the children, and Dolly could not but appreciate that.
“Very well, we will go to them,” she said. “It’s a pity Vassya’s asleep.”
After seeing the children, They sat down, alone now, in the drawing room, to coffee. Anna took
the tray, and then pushed it away from her.
“Dolly,” she said, “he has told me.”
Dolly looked coldly at Anna; she was waiting now for phrases of conventional sympathy, but
Anna said nothing of the sort.
“Dolly, dear,” she said, “I don’t want to speak for him to you,wow power leveling, nor to try to comfort you; that’s
impossible. But, darling, I’m simply sorry, sorry from my heart for you!”
Under the thick lashes of her shining eyes tears suddenly glittered. She moved nearer to her sister-
in-law and took her hand in her vigorous little hand. Dolly did not shrink away, but her face did
not lose its frigid expression. She said:
“To comfort me’s impossible. Everything’s lost after what has happened, everything’s over!”
And directly she had said this, her face suddenly softened. Anna lifted the wasted, thin hand of
Dolly, kissed it and said:

Oblonsky and Vronsky had both seen the mutilated corpse. Oblonsky was evidently upset. He
frowned and seemed ready to cry.
“Ah, how awful! Ah, Anna,cheap tales of pirates money, if you had seen it! Ah, how awful!” he said.
Vronsky did not speak; his handsome face was serious, but perfectly composed.
“Oh, if you had seen it, countess,” said Stepan Arkadyevitch. “And his wife was there…. It was
awful to see her!…. She flung herself on the body. They say he was the only support of an
immense family. How awful!”
“Couldn’t one do anything for her?” said Madame Karenina in an agitated whisper.
Vronsky glanced at her,warcraft gold, and immediately got out of the carriage.
“I’ll be back directly, maman,” he remarked, turning round in the doorway.
When he came back a few minutes later,cheap ro zeny, Stepan Arkadyevitch was already in conversation with
the countess about the new singer, while the countess was impatiently looking towards the door,
waiting for her son.
“Now let us be off,” said Vronsky, coming in. They went out together. Vronsky was in front with
his mother. Behind walked Madame Karenina with her brother. Just as they were going out of the
station the station-master overtook Vronsky.
“You gave my assistant two hundred roubles. Would you kindly explain for whose benefit you
intend them?”
“For the widow,” said Vronsky,runescape money, shrugging his shoulders. “I should have thought there was no need
to ask.”
“You gave that?” cried Oblonsky, behind, and, pressing his sister’s hand, he added: “Very nice,
very nice! Isn’t he a splendid fellow? Good-bye, countess.”
And he and his sister stood still, looking for her maid.
When they went out the Vronsky’s carriage had already driven away. People coming in were still
talking of what happened.
“What a horrible death!” said a gentleman, passing by. “They say he was cut in two pieces.”
“On the contrary, I think it’s the easiest–instantaneous,” observed another.
“How is it they don’t take proper precautions?” said a third.
Madame Karenina seated herself in the carriage, and Stepan Arkadyevitch saw with surprise that
her lips were quivering, and she was with difficulty restraining her tears.
“What is it, Anna?” he asked, when they had driven a few hundred yards.
“It’s an omen of evil,” she said.
“What nonsense!” said Stepan Arkadyevitch. “You’ve come, that’s the chief thing. You can’t
conceive how I’m resting my hopes on you.”
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used to meet on the ice. There were crack skaters there, showing off their skill, and learners
clinging to chairs with timid, awkward movements, boys, and elderly people skating with hygienic
motives. They seemed to Levin an elect band of blissful beings because they were here, near her.
All the skaters, it seemed, with perfect self-possession, skated towards her, skated by her, even
spoke to her, and were happy, quite apart from her, enjoying the capital ice and the fine weather.
Nikolay Shtcherbatsky, Kitty’s cousin, in a short jacket and tight trousers, was sitting on a garden
seat with his skates on. Seeing Levin, he shouted to him:
“Ah, the first skater in Russia! Been here long? First-rate ice–do put your skates on.”
“I haven’t got my skates,” Levin answered, marveling at this boldness and ease in her presence,
and not for one second losing sight of her,wow power leveling, though he did not look at her. He felt as though the sun
were coming near him. She was in a corner, and turning out her slender feet in their high boots
with obvious timidity, she skated towards him. A boy in Russian dress, desperately waving his
arms and bowed down to the ground, overtook her. She skated a little uncertainly; taking her
hands out of the little muff that hung on a cord, she held them ready for emergency, and looking
towards Levin,warcraft gold, whom she had recognized, she smiled at him,buy warcraft gold, and at her own fears. When she had
got round the turn, she gave herself a push off with one foot, and skated straight up to
Shtcherbatsky. Clutching at his arm, she nodded smiling to Levin. She was more splendid that he
had imagined her.
When he thought of her, he could call up a vivid picture of her to himself, especially the charm of
that little fair head, so freely set on the shapely girlish shoulders, and so full of childish brightness
and good humor. The childishness of her expression, together with the delicate beauty of her
figure, made up her special charm, and that he fully realized. But what always struck him in her as
something unlooked for, was the expression of her eyes, soft, serene, and truthful, and above all,
her smile, which always transported Levin to an enchanted world,buy runescape gold, where he felt himself softened
and tender, as he remembered himself in some days of his early childhood.
“Have you been here long?” she said, giving him her hand. “Thank you,” she added, as he picked
up the handkerchief that had fallen out of her muff.
“I? I’ve not long…yesterday…I mean today…I arrived,” answered Levin, in his emotion not at once
understanding her question. “I was meaning to come and see you,” he said; and then, recollecting
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with what intention he was trying to see her, he was promptly overcome with confusion and
blushed.
“I didn’t know you could skate, and skate so well.”