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indignant “hushes” in the silent audience, went out in the middle of a
solo and drove home.
Anna was already at home. When Vronsky went up to her, she
was in the same dress as she had worn at the theater. She was sitting
in the first armchair against the wall, looking straight before her. She
looked at him, and at once resumed her former position.
“Anna,” he said.
“You, you are to blame for everything!” she cried, with tears of
despair and hatred in her voice, getting up.
“I begged, I implored you not to go, I knew it would be unpleas-
ant....”
“Unpleasant!” she cried—”hideous! As long as I live I shall never
forget it. She said it was a disgrace to sit beside me.”
“A silly woman’s chatter,” he said: “but why risk it, why provoke?...”
“I hate your calm. You ought not to have brought me to this. If you
had loved me...”
“Anna! How does the question of my love come in?”
“Oh, if you loved me, as I love, if you were tortured as I am!...” she
said, looking at him with an expression of terror.
He was sorry for her, and angry notwithstanding. He assured her
of his love because he saw that this was the only means of soothing her,
and he did not reproach her in words, but in his heart he reproached
her.
And the asseverations of his love, which seemed to him so vulgar
that he was ashamed to utter them, she drank in eagerly, and gradually
became calmer. The next day, completely reconciled, they left for the
country.
Part Six.
Chapter 1.
Darya Alexandrovna spent the summer with her children at
Pokrovskoe, at her sister Kitty Levin’s. The house on her own estate
was quite in ruins, and Levin and his wife had persuaded her to spend
the summer with them. Stepan Arkadyevitch greatly approved of the
arrangement. He said he was very sorry his official duties prevented
him from spending the summer in the country with his family, which
would have been the greatest happiness for him; and remaining in
Moscow, he came down to the country from time to time for a day or
two. Besides the Oblonskys, with all their children and their govern-
ess, the old princess too came to stay that summer with the Levins, as
she considered it her duty to watch over her inexperienced daughter in
her INTERESTING CONDITION. Moreover, Varenka, Kitty’s
friend abroad, kept her promise to come to Kitty when she was married,
and stayed with her friend. All of these were friends or relations of
Levin’s wife. And though he liked them all, he rather regretted his own
Levin world and ways, which was smothered by this influx of the
“Shtcherbatsky element,” as he called it to himself. Of his own rela-
tions there stayed with him only Sergey Ivanovitch, but he too was a
man of the Koznishev and not the Levin stamp, so that the Levin spirit