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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - Part 4/4 · Audiobooks & Scary Stories

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  Speaker 1: Revenez ver Dixar's enkormieu domain Chiuel's sword, repeated the Frenchman,
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  Speaker 1: impatiently same NOI N s c E Paul and receiving
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  Speaker 1: an answer in the affirmative. Stepan Arkadyevitch, forgetting the favor
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  Speaker 1: he had meant to ask of Lydia Ivanovna, and forgetting
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  Speaker 1: his sister's affairs. Caring for nothing but filled with the
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  Speaker 1: sole desire to get away as soon as possible, went
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  Speaker 1: out on tiptoe and ran out into the street as
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  Speaker 1: though from a plague stricken house. For a long while
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  Speaker 1: he chatted and joked with his cab driver, trying to
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  Speaker 1: recover his spirits, at the French theater where he arrived
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  Speaker 1: for the last act, and afterwards at the Tatar restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: After his champagne, stepan Arkadyevitch felt a little refreshed in
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  Speaker 1: the atmosphere he was used to, but still he felt
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  Speaker 1: quite unlike himself all that evening. On getting home to
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  Speaker 1: pyotor Oblonsky's, where he was staying, stepan Arkadyevitch found a
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  Speaker 1: note from Betsy. She wrote to him that she was
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  Speaker 1: very anxious to finish fish their interrupted conversation and begged
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  Speaker 1: him to come next day. He had scarcely read this
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  Speaker 1: note and frowned at its contents. When he heard below the
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  Speaker 1: ponderous tramp of the servants carrying something heavy, stepan Arkadyevitch
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  Speaker 1: went out to look. It was the rejuvenated Pyodor Oblonski.
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  Speaker 1: He was so drunk that he could not walk upstairs,
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  Speaker 1: but he told them to set him on his legs
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  Speaker 1: when he saw stepan Arkadyevitch, and clinging to him, walked
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  Speaker 1: with him into his room, and there began telling him
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  Speaker 1: how he had spent the evening, and fell asleep doing so.
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  Speaker 1: Stepan Arkadyevitch was in very low spirits, which happened rarely
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  Speaker 1: with him, and for a long while he could not
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  Speaker 1: go to sleep. Everything he could recall to his mind
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  Speaker 1: everything was disgusting. But most disgusting of all, as if
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  Speaker 1: it were something shameful, was the memory of the evening
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  Speaker 1: he had spent at Countess lydia Ivanovna's. Next day, he
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  Speaker 1: received from Alexey Alexandrovitch a final answer refusing to grant
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  Speaker 1: Anna's divorce, and he understood that this decision was based
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  Speaker 1: on what the Frenchman had said in his real or
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  Speaker 1: pretended Trance, chapter twenty three. In order to carry through
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  Speaker 1: any undertaking in family life, there must necessarily be either
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  Speaker 1: complete division between the husband and wife or loving agreement.
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  Speaker 1: When the relations of a couple are vacillating in neither
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  Speaker 1: one thing or the other, no sort of enterprise can
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  Speaker 1: be undertaken. Many families remain for years in the same place,
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  Speaker 1: though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply
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  Speaker 1: because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.
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  Speaker 1: Both Vronsky and Anna felt life in Moscow insupportable in
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  Speaker 1: the heat and dust. When the spring sunshine was followed
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  Speaker 1: by the glare of summer, and all the trees in
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  Speaker 1: the boulevards had long since been in full leaf and
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  Speaker 1: the leaves were covered with dust. But they did not
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  Speaker 1: go back to vos Vezensko, as they had arranged to
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  Speaker 1: do long before. They went on staying in Moscow, though
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  Speaker 1: they both loathed it because of late there had been
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  Speaker 1: no agreement between them. The irritability that kept them apart
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  Speaker 1: had no external cause, and all efforts to come to
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  Speaker 1: an understanding intensified it instead of removing it. It was
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  Speaker 1: an inner irritation grounded in her mind on the conviction
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  Speaker 1: that his love had grown less in his on regret
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  Speaker 1: that he had put himself, for her sake in a
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  Speaker 1: difficult position, which she, instead of lightning, made still more difficult.
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  Speaker 1: Neither of them gave full utterance to their sense of grievance,
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  Speaker 1: but they considered each other in the wrong, and tried
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  Speaker 1: on every pretext to prove this to one another. In
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  Speaker 1: her eyes, the whole of him, with all his habits, ideas, desires,
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  Speaker 1: with all his spiritual and physical temperament, was one thing,
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  Speaker 1: love for women, and that love, she felt, ought to
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  Speaker 1: be entirely concentrated on her alone. That love was less. Consequently,
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  Speaker 1: as she reasoned, he must have transferred part of his
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  Speaker 1: love to other women, or to another woman, and she
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  Speaker 1: was jealous. She was jealous not of any particular woman,
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  Speaker 1: but of the decrease of his love. Not having got
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  Speaker 1: an object for her jealousy, she was on the lookout
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  Speaker 1: for it. At the slightest hint, she transferred her jealousy
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  Speaker 1: from one object to another. At one time she was
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  Speaker 1: jealous of those low women with whom he might so
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  Speaker 1: easily renew his old bachelor ties. Then she was jealous
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  Speaker 1: of the society women he might meet. Then She was
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  Speaker 1: jealous of the imaginary girl whom he might want to marry,
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  Speaker 1: for whose sake he would break with her, and this
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  Speaker 1: last form of jealousy tortured her most of all, especially
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  Speaker 1: as he had unwarily told her, in a moment of
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  Speaker 1: frankness that his mother knew him so little that she
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  Speaker 1: had had the audacity to try and persuade him to
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  Speaker 1: marry the young Princess Sorokina. And being jealous of him,
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  Speaker 1: Anna was indignant against him and found grounds for indignation
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  Speaker 1: in everything. For everything that was difficult in her position,
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  Speaker 1: she blamed him. The agonizing condition of suspense she had
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  Speaker 1: passed in Moscow, the tardiness and indecision of Alexey Alexandrovitch,
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  Speaker 1: her solitude. She put it all down to him. If
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  Speaker 1: he had loved her, he would have seen all the
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  Speaker 1: bitterness of her position and would have rescued her from it.
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  Speaker 1: For her being in Moscow and not in the country,
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  Speaker 1: he was to blame too. He could not live buried
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  Speaker 1: in the country, as she would have liked to do.
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  Speaker 1: He must have society, and he had put her in
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  Speaker 1: this awful position, the bitterness of which he would not see.
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  Speaker 1: And again it was his fault that she was forever
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  Speaker 1: separated from her son. Even the rare moments of tenderness
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  Speaker 1: that came from time to time did not soothe her.
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  Speaker 1: In his tenderness, now she saw a shade of complacency,
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  Speaker 1: of self confidence which had not been of old, and
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  Speaker 1: which exasperated her. It was dusk. Anna was alone and
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  Speaker 1: waiting for him to come back from a bachelor dinner.
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  Speaker 1: She walked up and down in his study, the room
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  Speaker 1: where the noise from the street was least heard, and
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  Speaker 1: thought over every detail of their yesterday's quarrel. Going back
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  Speaker 1: from the well remembered offensive words of the quarrel to
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  Speaker 1: what had been the ground of it, she arrived at
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  Speaker 1: last at its origin. For a long while, she could
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  Speaker 1: hardly believe that their dissension had arisen from a conversation
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  Speaker 1: so inoffensive, of so little moment to either, But so
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  Speaker 1: it actually had been. It all arose from his laughing
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  Speaker 1: at the girls high schools, declaring they were useless, while
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  Speaker 1: she defended them. He had spoken slightingly of women's education
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  Speaker 1: in general, and had said that Hannah Anna's English protegee
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  Speaker 1: had not the slightest need to know anything of physics,
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  Speaker 1: this irritated Anna. She saw in this a contemptuous reference
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  Speaker 1: to her occupations, and she bethought her of a phrase
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  Speaker 1: to pay him back for the pain he had given her.
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  Speaker 1: I don't expect you to understand me my feelings, as
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  Speaker 1: anyone who loved me might, But simple delicacy I did expect,
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  Speaker 1: she said, And he had actually flushed with vexation and
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  Speaker 1: had said something unpleasant. She could not recall her answer,
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  Speaker 1: but at that point, with an unmistakable desire to wound
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  Speaker 1: her too, he had said, I feel no interest in
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  Speaker 1: your infatuation over this girl. That's true, because I see
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  Speaker 1: it's unnatural. The cruelty with which he shattered the world
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  Speaker 1: she had built up for herself so laboriously to enable
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  Speaker 1: her to endure her hard life, the injustice with which
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  Speaker 1: he had accused her of affectation of artificiality aroused her.
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  Speaker 1: I am very sorry that nothing but what's coarse and
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  Speaker 1: material is comprehensible and natural to you, she said, and
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  Speaker 1: walked out of the room. When he had come in
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  Speaker 1: to her yesterday evening, they had not referred to the quarrel,
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  Speaker 1: but both felt that the quarrel had been smoothed over,
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  Speaker 1: but was not at an end to day. He had
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  Speaker 1: not been at home all day, and she felt so
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  Speaker 1: lonely and wretched in being on bad terms with him,
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  Speaker 1: that she wanted to forget it all, to forgive him
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  Speaker 1: and be reconciled with him. She wanted to throw the
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  Speaker 1: blame on herself and to justify him. I am myself
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  Speaker 1: to blame. I'm irritable, I'm insanely jealous. I will make
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  Speaker 1: it up with him and will go away to the country.
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  Speaker 1: There I shall be more at peace. Unnatural, she suddenly
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  Speaker 1: recalled the word that had stung her most of all,
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  Speaker 1: not so much the word itself as the intent to
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  Speaker 1: wound her with which it was said. I know what
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  Speaker 1: he meant. He meant unnatural, not loving my own daughter,
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  Speaker 1: to love another person's child. What does he know of
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  Speaker 1: love for children? Of my love for Seraosa, whom I've
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  Speaker 1: sacrificed for him, but that wish to wound me. No,
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  Speaker 1: he loves another woman, it must be so. And perceiving
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  Speaker 1: that while trying to regain her peace of mind, she
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  Speaker 1: had gone round the same circle that she had been
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  Speaker 1: round so often before, and had come back to her
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  Speaker 1: former state of exasperation. She was horrified at herself. Can
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  Speaker 1: it be impossible? Can it be beyond me to control myself?
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  Speaker 1: She said to herself, and began again from the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: He's truthful, he's honest, he loves me. I love him,
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  Speaker 1: and in a few days the divorce will come. What
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  Speaker 1: more do I want? I want peace of mind and trust,
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  Speaker 1: and I will take the blame on myself. Yes, now,
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  Speaker 1: when he comes in, I will tell him I was wrong,
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  Speaker 1: though I was not wrong, and we will go away tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: and to escape thinking any more and being overcome by irritability,
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  Speaker 1: she rang and ordered the boxes to be brought up
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  Speaker 1: for packing their things for the country. At ten o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: Vronsky came in chapter twenty four. Well was it nice,
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  Speaker 1: she asked, coming out to meet him with a penitent
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  Speaker 1: and meek expression. Just as usual, he answered, seeing at
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  Speaker 1: a glance that she was in one of her good moods.
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  Speaker 1: He was used by now to these transitions, and he
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  Speaker 1: was particularly glad to see it to day, as he
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  Speaker 1: was in especially good humor himself. What do I see come?
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  Speaker 1: That's good, he said, pointing to the boxes in the passage. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we must go. I went out for a drive and
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  Speaker 1: it was so fine, and I longed to be in
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  Speaker 1: the country. There's nothing to keep you, is there. It's
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  Speaker 1: the one thing I desire. I'll be back directly and
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk it over. Only want to change my coat,
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  Speaker 1: order some tea, and he went into his room. There
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  Speaker 1: was something mortifying in the way he had said, come,
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  Speaker 1: that's good, as one says to a child when it
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  Speaker 1: leaves off being naughty. And still more mortifying was the
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  Speaker 1: contrast between her penitent and his self confident tone, and
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  Speaker 1: for one instant she felt the lust of strife rising
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  Speaker 1: up in her again. But making an effort, she conquered
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  Speaker 1: it and met Vronsky as good humoredly as before. When
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  Speaker 1: he came in, she told him, partly repeating phrases she
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  Speaker 1: had prepared beforehand, how she had spent the day, and
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  Speaker 1: her plans for going away. You know, it came to
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  Speaker 1: me almost like an inspiration. She said, why wait here
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  Speaker 1: for the divorce? Won't it be just the same in
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  Speaker 1: the country. I can't wait any longer. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to go on hoping. I don't want to hear anything
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  Speaker 1: about the divorce. I have made up my mind it
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  Speaker 1: shall not have any more influence on my life. Do
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  Speaker 1: you agree? Oh yes, he said, glancing uneasily at her
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  Speaker 1: excited face. What did you do? Who was there? She said?
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  Speaker 1: After a pause, Vronsky mentioned the names of the guests.
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  Speaker 1: The dinner was first rate, and the boat race, and
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  Speaker 1: it was all pleasant enough. But in Moscow they can
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  Speaker 1: never do anything without something ridicule. A lady of a
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  Speaker 1: sword appeared on the scene, teacher of swimming to the
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  Speaker 1: Queen of Sweden, and gave us an exhibition of her skill.
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  Speaker 1: How did she swim? Asked Anna, frowning in an absurd
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  Speaker 1: red costumed innotation. She was old and hideous too, So
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  Speaker 1: when shall we go? What an absurd fancy? Why did
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  Speaker 1: she swim in some special way? Then, said Anna, not answering,
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  Speaker 1: There was absolutely nothing in it. That's just what I say.
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  Speaker 1: It was awfully stupid. Well, then when do you think
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  Speaker 1: of going? Anna shook her head, as though trying to
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  Speaker 1: drive away some unpleasant idea. When why the sooner the better?
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  Speaker 1: By tomorrow we shan't be ready the day after tomorrow? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: oh no, wait a minute, the day after tomorrow's Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: I have to be at Mammon's, said Vronsky, embarrassed, because
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  Speaker 1: as soon as he uttered his mother's name, he was
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  Speaker 1: aware of her intent. Suspicious eyes. His embarrassment confirmed her suspicion.
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  Speaker 1: She flushed hotly and drew away from him. It was
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  Speaker 1: now not the Queen of Sweden's swimming mistress who filled
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  Speaker 1: Anna's imagination, but the young Princess Sorokina. She was staying
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  Speaker 1: in a village near Moscow with Countess Vronskaya. Can't you
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  Speaker 1: go tomorrow? She said? Well, no, the deeds and the
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  Speaker 1: money for the business I'm going there for I can't
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  Speaker 1: get by tomorrow. He answered, If so, we won't go
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  Speaker 1: at all. But why so? I shall not go later
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  Speaker 1: Monday or never? What for? Said Vronsky, as though in amazement.
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  Speaker 1: Why there's no meaning in it? There's no meaning in
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  Speaker 1: it to you because you care nothing for me. You
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  Speaker 1: don't care to understand my life. The one thing that
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  Speaker 1: I cared for here was Hannah. You say its affectation.
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  Speaker 1: Why you said yesterday that I don't love my daughter,
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  Speaker 1: that I love this English girl, that it's unnatural. I
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  Speaker 1: should like to know what life there is for me
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  Speaker 1: that could be natural. For an instant, she had a
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  Speaker 1: clear vision of what she was doing and was horrified
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  Speaker 1: at how she had fallen away from her resolution. But
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  Speaker 1: even though she knew it was her own ruin, she
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  Speaker 1: could not restrain herself, could not keep herself from proving
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  Speaker 1: to him that he was wrong, could not give way
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  Speaker 1: to him. I never said that, I said, I did
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  Speaker 1: not sympathize with this sudden passion. How is it, though
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  Speaker 1: you boast of your straightforwardness, you don't tell the truth.
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  Speaker 1: I never boast, and I never tell lies, he said, slowly,
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  Speaker 1: restraining his rising anger. It's a great pity if you
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  Speaker 1: can't respect. Respect was invented to cover the empty place
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  Speaker 1: where love should be. And if you don't love me
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  Speaker 1: any more, it would be better and more honest to
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  Speaker 1: say so. No, this is becoming unbearable, cried Vronsky, getting
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  Speaker 1: up from his chair and stopping short. Facing her, he said,
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  Speaker 1: speaking deliberately, what do you try? My patience for looking
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  Speaker 1: as though he might have said much more, but was
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  Speaker 1: restraining himself. It has limits. What do you mean by that?
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  Speaker 1: She cried, looking with terror at the undisguised, hatred in
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  Speaker 1: his whole face and especially in his cruel, menacing eyes.
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  Speaker 1: I mean to say he was beginning, but he checked himself.
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  Speaker 1: I must ask what it is you want of me?
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  Speaker 1: What can I want? All I can want is that
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  Speaker 1: you should not desert me as you think of doing,
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  Speaker 1: she said, understanding all he had not uttered, but that
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  Speaker 1: I don't want that's secondary. I want love and there
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  Speaker 1: is none, So then all is over. She turned towards
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  Speaker 1: the door. Stop estyop, said Vronsky, with no change in
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  Speaker 1: the gloomy lines of his brows, though he held her
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  Speaker 1: by the hand. What is it all about? I said
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  Speaker 1: that we must put off going for three days, and
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  Speaker 1: on that you told me I was lying that I
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  Speaker 1: was not an honorable man. Yes, and I repeat that
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  Speaker 1: the man who reproaches me with having sacrificed everything for me,
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: she said, recalling the words of a still earlier quarrel,
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  Speaker 1: that he's worse than a dishonorable man. He's a heartless man. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: there are limits to endurance, he cried, and hastily let
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  Speaker 1: go her hand. He hates me, that's clear, she thought,
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  Speaker 1: and in silence, without looking round, she walked with faltering
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  Speaker 1: steps out of the room. He loves another woman, that's
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  Speaker 1: even clearer, she said to herself, as she went into
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  Speaker 1: her own room. I want love and there is none,
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  Speaker 1: So then all is over. She repeated the words she
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  Speaker 1: had said, and it must be ended. But how she
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  Speaker 1: asked herself, And she sat down in a low chair
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  Speaker 1: before the looking glass, thoughts of where she would go now,
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  Speaker 1: whether to the aunt who had brought her up to
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  Speaker 1: Dolly or simply alone abroad, and of what he was
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  Speaker 1: doing now alone in his study, whether this was the
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  Speaker 1: final quarrel, or whether reconciliation were still possible, And of
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  Speaker 1: what all her old friends at Petersburg would say of
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  Speaker 1: her now, and of how Alexey Alexandrovitch would look at it.
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  Speaker 1: And many other ideas of what would happen now after
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  Speaker 1: this rupture came into her head, but she did not
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  Speaker 1: give herself up to them with all her heart. At
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of her heart was some obscure idea that
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  Speaker 1: alone interested her, but she could not get clear sight
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  Speaker 1: of it. Thinking once more of Alexey Alexandrovitch, she recalled
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  Speaker 1: the time of her illness, after her confinement, and the
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  Speaker 1: feeling which never left her at that time why didn't
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  Speaker 1: I die? And the words and the feeling of that
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  Speaker 1: time came back to her, and all at once she
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  Speaker 1: knew what was in her soul. Yes, It was that
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  Speaker 1: idea which alone solved all yes to die, and the
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  Speaker 1: shame and disgrace of Alexey Alexandrovitch, and of Saraoza, and
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  Speaker 1: my awful shame. It will all be saved by death.
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  Speaker 1: To die, and he will feel remorse, will be sorry,
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  Speaker 1: will love me, He will suffer on my account. With
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  Speaker 1: the trace of a smile of commiseration for herself, she
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: sat down in the arm chair, taking off and putting
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  Speaker 1: on the rings on her left hand, vividly picturing from
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  Speaker 1: different sides his feelings after her death. Approaching footsteps, his
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  Speaker 1: steps distracted her attention, as though absorbed in the arrangement
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  Speaker 1: of her rings, she did not even turn to him.
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  Speaker 1: He went up to her, and, taking her by the hand,
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  Speaker 1: said softly, Anna will go the day after tomorrow if
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  Speaker 1: you like, I agree to everything. She did not speak.
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  Speaker 1: What is it? He urged, you know, she said, and
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  Speaker 1: at the same instant, unable to restrain herself any longer,
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  Speaker 1: she burst into sobs. Cast me off, She articulated between
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  Speaker 1: her sobs, I'll go away tomorrow. I'll do more. What
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  Speaker 1: am I an immoral woman? A stone round your neck?
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to make you wretched. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to I'll set you free. You don't love me, you
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  Speaker 1: love some one else. Vronsky besought her to be calm
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  Speaker 1: and declared that there was no trace of foundation for
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: her jealousy, that he had never ceased and never would
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: cease to love her, that he loved her more than ever, Anna,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: why distress yourself? And so he said to her, kissing
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: her hands. There was tenderness now in his face, and
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: she fancied. She caught the sound of tears in his voice,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: and she felt them wet on her hand, and instantly
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Anna's despairing jealousy changed to a despairing passion of tenderness.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: She put her arms round him and covered with kisses
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: his head, his neck, his hands, Chapter twenty five. Feeling
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: that the reconciliation was complete, Anna set eagerly to work
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: in the morning, preparing for their departure. Though it was
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: not settled whether they should go on Monday or Tuesday,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: as they had each given way to the other. Anna
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: packed busily, feeling absolutely indifferent whether they went a day
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: earlier or later. She was standing in her room over
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: an open box, taking things out of it, when he
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: came in to see her earlier than usual, dressed to
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: go out. I'm going off at once to see mamman.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: She can send me the money by Yegorov, and I
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: shall be ready to go tomorrow, he said. Though he
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: was in such a good mood, the thought of his
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: visit to his mother's gave her a pang. No, I
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: shan't be ready by then myself, she said, and at
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: once reflected so that it was possible to arrange to
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: do as I wished. No, do as you meant to do.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Go into the dining room. I'm coming directly. It's only
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: to turn out those things that aren't wanted, she said,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: putting something more on the heap of frippery that lay
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: in Anushka's arms. Vronsky was eating his beefsteak when she
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: came into the dining room. You wouldn't believe how distasteful
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: these rooms have become to me, she said, sitting down
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: beside him to her coffee. There's nothing more awful than
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: these chambers, Garnys. There's no individuality in them, no soul,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: These clocks and curtains, and worst of all, the wall papers.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: They're a nightmare. I think of oozed Vezensko as the
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: promised land. You're not sending the horses off yet, No,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: they will come out after us. Where are you going
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: to I wanted to go to Wilson's to take some
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: dresses to her, So it's really to be tomorrow, she
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: said in a cheerful voice, but suddenly her face changed.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Vronsky's valet came in to ask him to sign a
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: receipt for a telegram from Petersburg. There was nothing out
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: of the way in Vronsky's getting a telegram, but he said,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: as though anxious to conceal something from her, that the
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: receipt was in his study, and he turned hurriedly to her.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: By tomorrow, without fail, I will finish it all. From
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: whom is the telegram? She asked, not hearing him from Stiva,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: He answered reluctantly, why didn't you show it to me?
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: What secret can there be between Stiva and me? Vronsky
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: called the valet back and told him to bring the telegram.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I didn't want to show it to you because Stiva
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: has such a passion for telegraphing. Why telegraph when nothing
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: is settled about the divorce? Yes, but he says he
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: has not been able to come at anything yet he
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: has promised a decisive answer in a day or two.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: But here it is. Read it with trembling hands. Anna
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: took the telegram and read what Vronsky had told her.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: At the end was added little hope. But I will
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: do everything possible and impossible. I said yesterday that it's
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: absolutely nothing to me when I get or whether I
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: never get a divorce, she said, flushing Crimson. There was
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: not the slightest necessity to hide it from me. So
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: he may hide and does hide his correspondence with women
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: from me. She thought, Yashvin meant to come this morning
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: with Voyitov, said Vronsky. I believe he's one from Payetsov
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: all and more than he can pay about sixty thousand. No,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: she said, irritated by his so obviously showing by this
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: change of subject that he was irritated. Why did you
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: suppose that this news would affect me so that you
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: must even try to hide it, I said, I don't
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: want to consider it, and I should have liked you
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: to care as little about it as I do. I
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: care about it because I like definiteness, he said. Definiteness
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: is not in the form, but the love. She said,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: more and more irritated, not by his words, but by
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: the tone of cool composure in which he spoke, What
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: do you want it for? My God love again, he thought, frowning, Oh,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: you know what, for for your sake and your children's
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: in the future. There won't be children in the future.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: That's a great pity, he said. You want it for
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: the children's sake, But you don't think of me, she said,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: quite forgetting or not having heard that he had said,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: for your sake and the children's. The question of the
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: possibility of having children had long been a subject of
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: dispute and irritation to her. His desire to have children,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: she interpreted as a proof he did not prize her beauty. Oh,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: I said, for your sake, above all, all for your sake,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: he repeated, frowning as though in pain, because I am
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: certain that the greater part of your irritability comes from
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: the indefiniteness of the position. Yes, now he has laid
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: aside all pretense, and all his cold hatred for me
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: is apparent, she thought, not hearing his words, but watching
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: with terror the cold, cruel judge who looked mocking her
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: out of his eyes. The cause is not that, she said,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: and indeed, I don't see how the cause of my irritability,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: as you call it, can be that I am completely
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: in your power. What indefiniteness is there in the position?
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: On the contrary, I am very sorry that you don't
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: care to understand, he interrupted, obstinately anxious to give utterance
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: to his thought. The indefiniteness consists in your imagining that
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: I am free. On that score, you can set your
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: mind quite at rest, she said, and turning away from him,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: she began drinking her coffee. She lifted her cup with
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: her little finger held apart, and put it to her lips.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: After drinking a few SIPs, she glanced at him, and
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: by his expression she saw clearly that he was repelled
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: by her hand and her gesture and the sound made
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: by her lips. I don't care in the least what
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: your mother thinks and what match she wants to make
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: for you, she said, putting the cup down with a
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: shaking hand. But we are not talking about that. Yes,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: that's just what we are talking about. And let me
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: tell you that a heartless woman, whether she's old or
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: not old, your mother or anyone else, is of no
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: consequence to me, And I would not consent to know her. Anna,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I beg you not to speak disrespectfully of my mother.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: A woman whose heart does not tell her where her
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: son's happiness and honor lie has no heart. I repeat
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: my request that you will not speak disrespectfully of my mother,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: whom I respect, he said, raising his voice and looking
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: sternly at her. She did not answer. Looking intently at him,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: at his face, his hands, she recalled all the details
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: of their reconciliation the previous day, and his passionate caresses. There,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: just such caresses he has lavished and will lavish, and
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: longs to lavish on other women. She thought, you don't
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: love your mother. That's all talk and talk and talk,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: she said, looking at him with hatred in her eyes.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Even if so, you must must decide. And I have decided,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: she said, And she would have gone away. But at
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: that moment Yashvin walked into the room. Anna greeted him
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: and remained, why when there was a tempest in her
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: soul and she felt she was standing at a turning
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: point in her life which might have fearful consequences, why
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: at that minute she had to keep up appearances before
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: an outsider who, sooner or later must know it all,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: she did not know, but at once, quelling the storm
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: within her, she sat down and began talking to their guest. Well, well,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: how are you getting on? Has your debt been paid you?
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: She asked Yashvin. Oh, pretty fair, I fancy I shan't
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: get at all, but I shall get a good half.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: And when are you off? Said Yashman, looking at Vronsky
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: and unmistakably guessing at a quarrel the day after tomorrow,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: I think, said Vronsky. You've been meaning to go so long, though,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: but now it's quite decided, said Anna, looking Vronsky straight
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: in the face with a look which told him not
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: to dream of the possibility of reconciliation. Don't you feel
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: sorry for that unlucky Payevsov, She went on, talking to Yashvin.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: I've never asked myself the question, Anna Arkadyevna, whether I'm
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: sorry for him or not. You see all my fortunes here,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: he touched his breast pocket, And just now I'm a
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: wealthy man. But to day I'm going to the club
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: and I may come out a beggar. You see, whoever
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: sits down to play with me, he wants to leave
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: me without a shirt to my back, and so do
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: I him, and so we fight it out, and that's
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: the pleasure of it. Well, but suppose you were married,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: said Anna, how would it be for your wife? Yashvin laughed.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: That's why I'm not married and never mean to be.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: And helsingforce, said Vronsky, entering into the conversation and glancing
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: at Anna's smiling face. Meeting his eyes, Anna's face instantly
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: took a coldly severe expression, as though she were saying
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: to him, it's not forgotten, it's all the same. Were
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: you really in love, she said to Yashvin, Oh, heavens
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: ever so many times. But you see, some men can play,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: but only so that they can always lay down their
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: cards when the hour of a rendezvous comes, while I
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: can take up love, but only so as not to
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: be late for my cards in the evening. That's how
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: I manage things. No, I didn't mean that, but the
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: real thing, he would have said, helsingforce, but would not
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: repeat the word used by Vronsky. Voytov, who was buying
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: the horse, came in. Anna got up and went out
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: of the room. Before leaving the house, Vronsky went into
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: her room. She would have pretended to be looking for
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: something on the table, but ashamed of making a pretense,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: she looked straight in his face with cold eyes. What
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: do you want, she asked in French, to get the
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: guarantee for Gambetta. I've sold him, he said, in a
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: tone which said more clearly than words. I've no time
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: for discussing things, and it would lead to nothing. I'm
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: not to blame in any way, he thought, if she
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: will punish herself, tan't piece, poor ell. But as he
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: was going he fancied that she said something, and his
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: heart suddenly ached with pity for her. Eh Anna, he queried,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: I said nothing. She answered just as coldly and calmly.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Oh nothing, tan't piece, Then he thought, feeling cold again,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: and he turned and went out. As he was going out,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: he caught a glimpse in the looking glass of her face,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: white with quivering lips. He even wanted to stop and
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: to say some comforting word to her, but his legs
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: carried him out of the room before he could think
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: what to say. The whole of that day he spent
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: away from home, and when he came in late in
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: the evening, the maid told him that Anna Arkadyevna had
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: a headache and begged him not to go into her.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty six. Never before had a day been passed
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: in quarrel. To day was the first time. And this
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: was not a quarrel. It was the open acknowledgment of
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: complete coldness. Was it possible to glance at her as
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: he had glanced when he came into the room for
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: the guarantee, to look at her, see her heart was
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: breaking with despair, and go out without a word, with
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: that face of callous composure. He was not merely cold
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: to her. He hated her because he loved another woman.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: That was clear, and remembering all the cruel words he
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: had said, Anna supplied too, the words that he had
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: unmistakably wished to say and could have said to her.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: And she grew more and more exasperated. I won't prevent you,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: he might say. You can go where you like. You
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: were unwilling to be divorced from your husband, no doubt,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: so that you might go back to him. Go back
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: to him. If you want money, I'll give it to you.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: How many roubles do you want? All the most cruel
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: words that a brutal man could say, he said to
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: her in her imagination, and she could not forgive him
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: for them, as though he had actually said them. But
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: didn't he only yesterday swear he loved me. He a
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: truthful and sincere man, haven't I despaired for nothing? Many
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: times already? She said to herself afterwards. All that day,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: except for the visit to Wilson's, which occupied two hours,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Anna spent in doubts whether everything were over, or whether
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: there were still hope of reconciliation, whether she should go
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: away at once or see him once more. She was
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: expecting him the whole day, and in the evening, as
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: she went to her own room, leaving a message for
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: him that her head ached, she said to herself, if
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: he comes in spite of what the maid says, it
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: means that he loves me still. If not, it means
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: that all is over, and then I will decide what
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: I am to do. In the evening she heard the
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: rumbling of his carriage stop at the entrance, his ring,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: his steps, and his conversation with the servant. He believed
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: what was told him, did not care to find out more,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: and went to his own room. So then everything was over,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: and death rose clearly and vividly before her mind, as
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: the sole means of bringing back love for her in
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: his heart, of punishing him, and of gaining the victory
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: in that strife which the evil spirit in possession of
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: her heart was waging with him. Now nothing mattered going
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: or not going to vos Vzensko, getting or not getting
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: a divorce from her husband. All that did not matter.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: The one thing that mattered was punishing him. When she
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: poured herself out her usual dose of opium and thought
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: that she had only to drink off the whole bottle
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: to die, it seemed to her so simple and easy
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: that she began musing with enjoyment on how he would
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: suffer and repent and love her memory when it would
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: be too late. She lay in bed with open eyes
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: by the light of a single burned down candle, gazing
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: at the carved cornice of the ceiling and at the
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: shadow of the screen that covered part of it, while
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: she vividly pictured to herself how he would feel when
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: she would be no more, when she would be only
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: a memory to him. How could I say such cruel
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: things to her? He would say, How could I go
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: out of the room without saying anything to her? But
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: now she is no more, She has gone away from
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: us forever she is. Suddenly the shadow of the screen, Wavered,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: pounced on the whole cornice, the whole ceiling. Other shadows
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: from the other side swooped to meet it. For an
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: instant the shadows flitted back, but then with fresh swiftness,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: they darted forward. Wavered commingled, and all was darkness, death,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: she thought, And such horror came upon her that for
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: a long while she could not realize where she was,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: and for a long while her trembling hands could not
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: find the matches and light another candle instead of the
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: one that had burned down and gone out. No anything,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: only to live. Why I love him, Why he loves me.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: This has been before and will pass, she said, feeling
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: that tears of joy at the return to life were
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: trickling down her cheeks. And to escape from her panic,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: she went hurriedly to his room. He was asleep there,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: and sleeping soundly. She went up to him, and, holding
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: the light above his face, she gazed along while at him.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Now when he was asleep, she loved him so that
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: at the sight of him she could not keep back
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: tears of tenderness. But she knew that if he waked up,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: he would look at her with cold eyes. Convinced that
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: he was right, and that before tell him of her love,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: she would have to prove to him that he had
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: been wrong in his treatment of her. Without waking him,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: she went back, and after a second dose of opium,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: she fell towards morning into a heavy, incomplete sleep, during
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: which she never quite lost consciousness. In the morning, she
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: was waked by a horrible nightmare, which had recurred several
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: times in her dreams even before her connection with Vronsky.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: A little old man with unkempt beard was doing something,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: bent down over some iron, muttering meaningless French words, and she,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: as she always did, in this nightmare. It was what
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: made the horror of it, felt that this peasant was
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: taking no notice of her, but was doing something horrible
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: with the iron over her. And she waked up in
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: a cold sweat. When she got up, the previous day
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: came back to her as though veiled in mist. There
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: was a quarrel, just what has happened? Several times? I
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: said I had a headache, and he did not come
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: in to see me. Tomorrow we're going away. I must
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: see him and get ready for the journey, She said
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: to herself, and learning that he was in his study,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: she went down to him. As she passed through the
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: drawing room, she heard a carriage stop at the entrance,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: and looking out of the window, she saw the carriage
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: from which a young girl in a lilac hat was
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: leaning out, giving some direction to the footman ringing the bell.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: After a parley in the hall, someone came upstairs, and
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Vronsky's steps could be heard passing the drawing room. He
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: went rapidly downstairs. Anna went again to the window. She
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: saw him come out onto the steps without his hat
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: and go up to the carriage. The young girl in
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: the lilac hat handed him a parcel. Vronsky, smiling, said
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: something to her. The carriage drove away. He ran rapidly
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: upstairs again. The mists that had shrouded everything in her
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: soul parted. Suddenly, the feelings of yesterday pierced the sick
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: heart with a fresh pang. She could not understand now
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: how she could have lowered herself by spending a whole
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: day with him in his house. She went into his
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: room to announce her determination. That was Madame Sorokina and
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: her daughter. They came and brought me the money and
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: the deeds from Mamman. I couldn't get them yesterday. How
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: is your head better, he said, quietly, not wishing to
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: see and to understand the gloomy and solemn expression of
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: her face. She looked silently intently at him, standing in
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: the middle of the room. He glanced at her, frowned
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: for a moment, and went on reading a letter. She
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: turned and went deliberately out of the room. He still
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: might have turned her back, but she had reached the door.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: He was still silent, and the only sound audible was
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: the rustling of the note paper as he turned it. Oh,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: by the way, he said, at the very moment she
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: was in the doorway. We're going tomorrow for certain, aren't we.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: You but not I, she said, turning round to him. Anna,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: we can't go on like this. You but not I,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: she repeated. This is getting unbearable. You. You will be
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: sorry for this, she said, and went out. Frightened by
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: the desperate expression with which these words were uttered, he
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: jumped up and would have run after her, but on
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: second thoughts, he sat down and scowled, setting his teeth.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: This vulgar, as he thought it, dread of something vague
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: exasperated him. I've tried everything, he thought. The only thing
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: left is not to pay attention, and he began to
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: get ready to drive into town and again to his
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: mother's to get her signature to the deeds. She heard
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: the sound of his steps about the study and the
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: dining room. At the drawing room, he stood still, but
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: he did not turn in to see her. He merely
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: gave an order that the horse should be given to
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Voyitov if he came while he was away. Then she
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: heard the carriage brought round. The door opened, and he
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: came out again. But he went back into the porch again,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: and some one was running upstairs. It was the valet
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: running up for his gloves that had been forgotten. She
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: went to the window and saw him take the gloves
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: without looking, and touching the coachman on the back. He
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: said something to him. Then, without looking up at the window,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: he settled himself in his usual attitude in the carriage,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: with his legs crossed and drawing on his gloves. He
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: vanished round the corner Chapter twenty seven. He has gone.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: It is over, Anna said to herself, standing at the window.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: And in answer to this statement, the impression of the
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: darkness when the candle had flickered out, and of her
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: fearful dream mingling into one filled her heart with cold terror.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: No that cannot be, she cried, and crossing the room,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: she rang the bell. She was so afraid now of
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: being alone, that, without waiting for the servant to come in,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: she went out to meet him. Inquire where the count
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: has gone, she said. The servant answered that the Count
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: had gone to the stable. His honor left word that
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: if you cared to drive out, the carriage would be
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: back immediately. Very good, Wait a minute, I'll write a
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: note at once. Send Mikail with the note to the stables.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Make haste. She sat down and wrote, I was wrong.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Come back home. I must explain for God's sake. Come,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: I'm afraid. She sealed it up and gave it to
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: the servant. She was afraid of being left alone now.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: She followed the servant out of the room and went
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: to the nursery. Why this isn't it, This isn't he?
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Where are his blue eyes? His sweet, shy smile? Was
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: her first thought when she saw her chubby, rosy little
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: girl with her black curly hair, instead of Saraosa, whom
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: in the tangle of her ideas she had expected to see.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: In the nursery, the little girl sitting at the table
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: was obstinately and violently battering on it with a cork
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: and staring aimlessly at her mother with her pitch black eyes.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: Answering the English nurse that she was quite well and
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: that she was going to the country tomorrow. Anna sat
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: down by the little girl and began spinning the cork
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: to show her. But the child's loud, ringing laugh and
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: the motion of her eyebrows recalled Vronsky so vividly that
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: she got up hurriedly, restraining her sobs, and went away.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Can it be all over? No, it cannot be. She thought,
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: he will come back. But how can he explain that smile,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: that excitement after he had been talking to her. But
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: even if he doesn't explain, I will believe. If I
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: don't believe, there's only one thing left for me, and
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: I can't. She looked at her watch. Twenty minutes had
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: passed by. Now he has received the note and is
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: coming back, not long ten minutes more. But what if
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: he doesn't come No, that cannot be. He mustn't see
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: me with tear stained eyes. I'll go and wash. Yes, yes,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: did I do my hair or not? She asked herself,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: and she could not remember. She felt her head with
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: her hand. Yes, my hair has been done, but when
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: I did it, I can't in the least remember. She
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: could not believe the evidence of her hand and went
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: up to the peer glass to see whether she really
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: had done her hair. She certainly had, but she could
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: not think when she had done it. Who's that? She thought,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: looking in the looking glass at the swollen face with
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: strangely glittering eyes that looked in a scared way at her.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: Why it's I, she suddenly understood, and looking round, she
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: seemed all at once to feel his kisses on her
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: and twitched her shoulders, shuddering. Then she lifted her hand
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: to her lips and kissed it. What is it? Why?
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: I'm going out of my mind? And she went into
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: her bedroom, where Annushka was tidying the Roomshaka, she said,
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: coming to a standstill before her, and she stared at
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: the maid, not knowing what to say to her. You
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: meant to go and see Darya Alexandrovna, said the girl,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: as though she understood. Darya Alexandrovna. Yes, I'll go fifteen
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: minutes there, fifteen minutes back. He's coming. He'll be here soon.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: She took out her watch and looked at it. But
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: how could he go away leaving me in such a state?
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: How can he live without making it up with me?
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: She went to the window and began looking into the street,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: judging by the time he might be back now. But
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: her calculations might be wrong, and she began once more
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: to recall when he had started, and to count the minutes.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: At the moment when she had moved away to the
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: big clock to compare it with her watch, someone drove up.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: Glancing out of the window, she saw his carriage, but
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: no one came upstairs, and voices could be heard below.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: It was the messenger who had come back in the carriage.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: She went down to him. We didn't catch the count.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: The count had driven off on the lower city road.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: What do you say? What she said to the rosy,
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: good humored Mikhail as he handed her back her note.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: Why then he has never received it, she thought, Go
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: with this note to Countess Vronskaya's place, you know, and
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: bring an answer back Immediately, she said to the messenger,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: and I what am I going to do? She thought, yes,
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: I'm going to Dolly's. That's true, or else I shall
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: go out of my mind. Yes, and I can telegraph too,
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: and she wrote a telegram. I absolutely must talk to you,
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: come at once. After sending off the telegram, she went
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: to dress. When she was dressed, and in her hat,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: she glanced again into the eyes of the plump, comfortable
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: looking in Ushka. There was un mistakable sympathy in those
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: good natured, little gray eyes. Anushka. Dear, what am I
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: to do? Said Anna, sobbing and sinking helplessly into a chair.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: Why fret yourself, so Anna Arkadyevna. Why there's nothing out
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: of the way. You drive out a little and it'll
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: cheer you up, said the maid. Yes I'm going, said Anna,
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: rousing herself and getting up. And if there's a telegram
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: while I'm away, send it on to Darya Alexandrovna's. But no,
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: I shall be back myself. Yes, I mustn't think. I
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: must do something. Drive somewhere, and most of all, get
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: out of this house, she said, feeling with terror the
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: strange turmoil going on in her own heart, And she
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: made haste to go out and get into the carriage.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: Where to asked Pyotur before getting onto the box. Tis
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: Namenka the Oblonskis, chapter twenty eight. It was bright and sunny.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: A fine rain had been falling all the morning, and
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: now it had not long cleared up. The iron roofs,
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: the flags of the roads, the flints of the pavements,
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: the wheels and leather, the brass and the tin plate
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: of the carriages all glistened brightly in the May sunshine.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: It was three o'clock and the very liveliest time in
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: the streets. As she sat in a corner of the
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: comfortable carriage that hardly swayed on its supple springs, while
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: the grays trotted swiftly. In the midst of the unceasing
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: rattle of wheels and the changing impressions in the pure air,
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: Anna ran over the events of the last days, and
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: she saw her position quite differently from how it had
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: seemed at home. Now the thought of death seemed no
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: longer so terrible and so clear to her, and death
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: itself no longer seemed so inevitable. Now she blamed herself
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: for the humiliation to which she had lowered herself. I
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: entreat him to forgive me. I have given in to him,
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: I have owned myself in fault. What for can't I
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: live without him? And, leaving unanswered the question how she
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: was going to live without him, she fell to reading
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: the signs on the shops, office and warehouse. Dental surgeon. Yes,
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: I'll tell Dolly all about it. She doesn't like Vronsky.
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: I shall be sick and ashamed, but I'll tell her.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: She loves me, and I'll follow her advice. I won't
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: give in to him. I won't let him train me
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: as he pleases. Philipov bun shop they say they send
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: their dough to Petersburg. The Moscow water is so good
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: for it, Ah, the spring's admittitionan and the pancakes. And
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: she remembered how long, long ago, when she was a
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: girl of seventeen, she had gone with her aunt Ta Troitza,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: writing too, Was that really me with red hands? How
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: much that seemed to me then, splendid and out of reach,
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: has become worthless? While what I had then has gone
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: out of my reach forever? Could I ever have believed
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: then that I could come to such humiliation? How conceited
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: and self satisfied he will be when he gets my note,
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: But I will show him how horrid that paint smells.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: Why is it there always painting and building modes edi robes?
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: She read, A man bowed to her. It was Anushka's husband,
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: Our parasites. She remembered how Vronsky had said that our
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: why our What's so awful is that one can't tear
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: up the past by its roots. One can't tear it out,
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: but one can hide one's memory of it. And I'll
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: hide it. And then she thought of her past with
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: Alexey Alexandrovitch, of how she had blotted the memory of
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: it out of her life. Dolly will think I'm leaving
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: my second husband, and so I certainly must be in
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: the wrong, as if I cared to be right. I
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: can't help it, she said, And she wanted to cry,
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: But at once she fell to wondering what those two
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: girls could be smiling about love. Most likely they don't
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: know how dreary it is, how low the boulevard, and
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: the children, three boys running playing at horses seriosa. And
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: I'm losing everything and not getting him back. Yes, I'm
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: losing everything if he doesn't return. Perhaps he was late
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: for the train and has come back by now, Longing
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: for humiliation again, she said to herself, No, I'll go
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: to Dolly and say straight out to her. I'm unhappy.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: I deserve this, I'm to blame, but still I'm unhappy.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: Help me these horses, this carriage, how loathsome I am
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: to myself in this carriage, all his, But I won't
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: see them again. Thinking over the words in which she
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: would tell Dolly, and mentally working her heart up to
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: great bitterness, Anna went upstairs. Is there any one with her?
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: She asked in the hall. Katerina Alexandrovna Levin answered the footman.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Kitty Kitty, whom Vronsky was in love with, thought Anna,
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: the girl he thinks of with love, he's sorry he
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: didn't marry her. But me he thinks of with hatred
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: and is sorry he had anything to do with me.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: The sisters were having a consultation about nursing when Anna called.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: Dolly went down alone to see the visitor, who had
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: interrupted their conversation. Well, sir, you've not gone away yet.
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: I meant to have come to you, she said. I
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: had a letter from Stiva to day. We had a
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: telegram too, answered Anna, Looking round for Kitty, he writes
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: that he can't make out quite what Alexey Alexandrovitch wants,
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: but he won't go away without a decisive answer. I
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: thought you had some one with you. Can I see
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: the letter, yes, Kitty, said Dolly, embarrassed. She stayed in nursery.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: She has been very ill, so I heard, May I
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: see the letter. I'll get it directly, But he doesn't refuse.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: On the contrary, Stiva has hopes, said Dolly, stopping in
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: the doorway. I haven't, and indeed I don't wish it,
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: said Anna. What's this? Does Kitty consider it degrading to
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: meet me? Thought Anna when she was alone. Perhaps she's
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: right too, But it's not for her, the girl who
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: was in love with Vronsky. It's not for her to
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: show me that, even if it is true. I know
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: that in my position I can't be received by any
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: decent woman. I knew that from the first moment. I
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: sacrificed everything to him, and this is my reward. Oh
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: how I hate him? And what did I come here for?
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: I'm worse here, more miserable. She heard from the next
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: room the sister's voices in consultation. And what am I
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: going to say to Dollie, Now, amuse Kitty by the
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: side of my wretchedness submit to her patronizing No, And besides,
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: Dolly wouldn't understand, and it would be no good my
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: telling her. It would only be interesting to see Kitty,
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: to show her how I despise everyone and everything, how
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: nothing matters to me now. Dolly came in with the letter.
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: Anna read it and handed it back in silence. I
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: knew all that, she said, and it doesn't interest me
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: in the least. Oh why so, On the contrary, I
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: have hopes, said Dolly, looking inquisitively at Anna. She had
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: never seen her in such a strangely irritable condition. When
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: are you going away? She asked, Anna, half closing her eyes,
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: looked straight before her and did not answer. Why does
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: Kitty shrink from me? She said, looking at the door
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: and flushing red. Oh what nonsense. She's nursing and things
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: aren't going right with her, and I've been advising her.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: She's delighted. She'll be here in a minute, said Dolly, awkwardly,
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: not clever at lying. Yes, here she is, hearing that
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: Anna had called. Kitty had wanted not to appear, but
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: Dolly persuaded her rallying her forces. Kitty went in, walked
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: up to her, blushing and shook hands. I am so
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: glad to see you, she said, with a trembling voice.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: Kitty had been thrown into confusion by the inward conflict
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: between her antagonism to this bad woman and her desire
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: to be nice to her. But as soon as she
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: saw Anna's lovely, in attractive face, all feeling of antagonism disappeared.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: I should not have been surprised if you had not
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: cared to meet me. I'm used to everything you have
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: been ill. Yes, you are changed, said Anna. Kitty felt
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: that Anna was looking at her with hostile eyes. She
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: ascribed this hostility to the awkward position in which Anna,
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: who had once patronized her, must feel with her now,
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: and she felt sorry for her. They talked of Kitty's
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: illness of the baby of Stiva, but it was obvious
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: that nothing interested Anna. I came to say good bye
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: to you, she said, getting up, Oh when are you going?
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: But again not answering, Anna turned to Kitty. Yes, I
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: am very glad to have seen you, she said, with
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: a smile. I have heard so much of you from
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: every one, even from your husband. He came to see me,
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: and I liked him exceedingly, she said, unmistakably with malicious intent.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: Where is he? He has gone back to the country,
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: said Kitty, blushing. Remember me to him? Be sure you do.
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: I'll be sure to Kitty, said naively, looking compassionately into
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: her eyes. So good bye, Dolly, and kissing Dolly and
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: shaking hands with Kitty, Anna went out hurriedly. She's just
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: the same and just as charming. She's very lovely, said
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: Kitty when she was alone with her sister. But there's
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: something piteous about her, awfully piteous. Yes, there's something unusual
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: about her to day, said Dolly. When I went with
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: her into the hall, I fancied she was almost crying.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty nine. Anna got into the carriage again in
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: an even worse frame of mind than when she set
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: out from home to her previous tortures. Was added now
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: that sense of mortification and of being an outcast, which
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: she had felt so distinctly on meeting Kitty. Where to home,
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: asked Pyotur. Yes home, she said, not even thinking now
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: where she was going. How they looked at me as
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: something dreadful, incomprehensible and curious. What Can he be telling
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: the other with such warmth, she thought, staring at two
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: men who walked by. Can one ever tell any one
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: what one is feeling? I meant to tell Dolly, and
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: it's a good thing I didn't tell her. How pleased
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: she would have been at my misery. She would have
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: concealed it, But her chief feeling would have been delight
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: at my being punished for the happiness she envied me
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: for Kitty, she would have been even more pleased. How
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: I can see through her. She knows I was more
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: than usually sweet to her husband, and she's jealous and
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: hates me, and she despises me in her eyes. I'm
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: an immoral woman. If I were an immoral woman, I
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: could have made her husband fall in love with me
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: if I'd cared to, And indeed I did care to.
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: There's some one who's pleased with himself, she thought, as
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: she saw a fat, rubic and gentleman coming towards her.
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: He took her for an acquaintance and lifted his glossy
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: hat above his bald, glossy head, and then perceived his mistake.
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: He thought he knew me well, He knows me as
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: well as any one in the world knows me. I
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: don't know myself. I know my appetites. As the French
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: say they want that dirty ice cream, that they do
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: know for certain, she thought, looking at two boys stopping
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: an ice cream cellar, who took a barrel off his
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: head and began wiping his perspiring face with a towel.
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: We all want what is sweet and nice. If not sweetmeats,
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: then a dirty ice and Kitty's the same. If not Vronsky,
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: then Levin. And she envies me and hates me, and
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: we all hate each other. I kitty, kitty me, Yes,
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: that's the truth. Tyutkin, coaffeer je me face kaffer par tyatkin.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: I'll tell him that when he comes, she thought, and smiled.
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: But the same instant she remembered that she had no
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: one now to tell anything amusing to. And there's nothing amusing,
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: nothing mirthful. Really, it's all hateful. They're singing vespers and
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: how carefully that merchant crosses himself, as if he were
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: afraid of missing something. Why these churches and this singing
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: and this humbug simply to conceal that we all hate
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: each other, like these cab drivers who are abusing each
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: other so angrily. Yashvin says, he wants to strip me
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: of my shirt, and I hymn of his. Yes, that's
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: the truth. She was plunged in these thoughts, which so
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: engrossed her that she left off thinking of her own
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: position when the carriage drew up at the steps of
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: her house. It was only when she saw the porter
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: running out to meet her that she remembered she had
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: sent the note and the telegram. Is there an answer,
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: she inquired. I'll see this minute, answered the porter, and
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: glancing into his room, he took out and gave her
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: the thin, square envelope of a telegram. I can't come
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: before ten o'clock dot Vronsky, she read. And hasn't the
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: messenger come back? No, answered the porter. Then, since it's so,
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: I know what I must do, she said, and, feeling
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: a vague fury in craving for revenge rising up within her,
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: she ran upstairs. I'll go to him myself before going
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: away forever, I'll tell him all. Never have I hated
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: any one as I hate that man, she thought. Seeing
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: his hat on the rack, she shuddered with aversion. She
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: did not consider that his telegram was an answer to
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: her telegram. And that he had not yet received her note.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: She pictured him to herself as talking calmly to his
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: mother and Princess Sorokina and rejoicing at her sufferings. Yes,
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: I must go quickly, she said, not knowing yet where
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: she was going. She longed to get away as quickly
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: as possible from the feeling she had gone through in
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: that awful house. The servants, the walls, the things in
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: that house all aroused repulsion and hatred in her and
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: lay like a weight upon her. Yes, I must go
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: to the railway station, and if he's not there, then
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: go there and catch him. Anna looked at the railway
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: time table in the newspapers. An evening train went at
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: two minutes past eight. Yes, I shall be in time.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: She gave orders for the other horses to be put
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: in the carriage and packed in a traveling bag the
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: things needed for a few days. She knew she would
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: never come back here again. Among the plans that came
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: into her head, she vaguely determined that after what would
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: happen at the station or at the Countess's house, she
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: would go as far as the first town on the
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: Nisney road and stop there. Dinner was on the table.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: She went up, but the smell of the bread and
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: cheese was enough to make her feel that all food
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: was disgusting. She ordered the carriage and went out. The
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: house threw a shadow now right across the street, But
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: it was a bright evening and still warm in the sunshine.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: Anushka who came down with her things, and Peoder who
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: put the things in the carriage, and the coachmen, evidently
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: out of humor, were all hateful to her and irritated
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: her by their words and actions. I don't want you, Pyotor,
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: but how about the ticket? Well as you like, it
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter, she said crossly. Pyota jumped on the box, and,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: putting his arms at Kimbo, told the coachman to drive
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: to the booking office, Chapter thirty. Here it is again again.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: I understand it all, Anna said to herself, as soon
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: as the carriage had started and, swaying lightly, rumbled over
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: the tiny cobbles of the paved road, And again one
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: impression followed rapidly upon another. Yes, what was the last
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: thing I thought of? So clearly, she tried to recall it,
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: Tyapkin Quiffer, No, not that, Yes, of what Yashvin says,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: the struggle for existence and hatred is the one thing
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: that holds men together. No, it's a useless journey you're making,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: she said, mentally, addressing a party in a coach and
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: four evidently going for an excursion into the country, and
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: the dog you're taking with you will be no help
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: to you. You can't get away from yourselves. Turning her
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: eyes in the direction Pyotur had turned to look, she
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: saw a factory hand, almost dead, drunk with hanging head,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: being led away by a policeman. Come he's found a
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: quicker way, she thought, Count Vronsky, and I did not
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: find that happiness either, though we expected so much from it.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: And now, for the first time, Anna turned the glaring
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: light in which she was seeing everything on to her
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: relations with him, which she had hitherto avoided. Thinking about
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: what was it he sought in me? Not love so
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: much as the satisfaction of vanity. She remembered his words,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: the expression of his face that recalled an abject setter
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: dog in the early days of their connection, and everything
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: now confirmed this. Yes, there was the triumph of success
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: in him. Of course there was love too, but the
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: chief element was the pride of success. He boasted of me.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: Now that's over, there's nothing to be proud of, not
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: to be proud of, but to be ashamed of. He
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: has taken from me all he could, and now I
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: am no use to him. He is weary of me
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: and is trying not to be dishonorable in his behavior
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: to me. He let that out yesterday. He wants divorce
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: and marriage so as to burn his ships. He loves me,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: but how the zest is gone. As the English say,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: that fellow wants every one to admire him and is
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: very much pleased with himself, she thought, looking at a
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: red faced clerk riding on a riding school horse. Yes,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: there's not the same flavor about me for him. Now
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: if I go away from him at the bottom of
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: his heart, he will be glad. This was not mere supposition.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: She saw it distinctly in the piercing light, which revealed
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: to her now the meaning of life and human relations.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: My love keeps growing more passionate and ego, while his
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: is waning and waning. And that's why we're drifting apart,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: she went on musing. And there's no help for it.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: He is everything for me, and I want him more
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: and more to give himself up to me entirely, and
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: he wants more and more to get away from me.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: We walked to meet each other up to the time
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: of our love, and then we have been irresistibly drifting
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: in different directions, and there's no altering that. He tells me,
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: I'm insanely jealous, and I have told myself that I
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: am insanely jealous, but it's not true. I'm not jealous,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: but I'm unsatisfied. But she opened her lips and shifted
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: her place in the carriage in the excitement, or roused
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: by the thought that suddenly struck her. If I could
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: be anything but a mistress, passionately caring for nothing but
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: his caresses. But I can't, and I don't care to
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: be anything else. And by that desire I rouse aversion
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: in him, and he rouses fury in me. And it
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: cannot be different, don't I. I know that he wouldn't
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: deceive me, that he has no schemes about Princess Sorokina,
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: that he's not in love with Kitty, that he won't
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: desert me. I know all that, but it makes it
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: no better for me. If without loving me from duty,
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: he'll be good and kind to me without what I want.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: That's a thousand times worse than unkindness. That's hell, And
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: that's just how it is. For a long while now
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: he hasn't loved me. And where love ends hate begins.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know these streets at all, hills, it seems,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: and still houses and houses, and in the houses always
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: people and people, how many of them no end, and
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: all hating each other. Come, Let me try and think
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: what I want to make me happy. Well, suppose I
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: am divorced and Alexey Alexandrovitch, lets me have Saraosa and
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: I marry Vronsky. Thinking of Alexey Alexandrovitch, she at once
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: pictured him with extra ordinary vividness, as though he were
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: alive before her, with his mild, lifeless, dull eyes, the
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: blue veins in his white hands, his intonations, and the
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: cracking of his fingers, And remembering the feeling which had
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: existed between them, and which was also called love, she
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: shuddered with loathing. Well, I'm divorced and become Vronsky's wife. Well,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: will Kitty cease looking at me as she looked at
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: me to day? No? And will seriosa leave off asking
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: and wondering about my two husbands, and is there any
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: new feeling I can awaken between Vronsky and me? Is
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: there possible, if not happiness, some sort of ease from misery? No, no,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: she answered, now without the slightest hesitation, impossible. We are
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: drawn apart by life, and I make his unhappiness and
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: he mine, And there's no altering him or me. Every
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: attempt has been made, the screw has come unscrewed. Oh,
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: a beggar woman with a baby. She thinks, I'm sorry
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: for her. Aren't we all flung into the world only
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: each other. Schoolboys coming laughing seraosa, she thought, I thought too,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: that I loved him and used to be touched by
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: my own tenderness. But I have lived without him. I
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: gave him up for another love, and did not regret
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: the exchange till that love was satisfied. And with loathing
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: she thought of what she meant by that love, and
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: the clearness with which she saw life now her own
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: and allmends, was a pleasure to her. It's so with
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: me and Pyoto and the coachman, Theodor and that merchant
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: and all the people living along the Volga, where those
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: placards invite one to go, and everywhere and always, she thought,
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: when she had driven under the low pitched roof of
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: the Nizigorod station and the porters ran to meet her
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: a ticket to Oberolovka, said Pyotor. She had utterly forgotten
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: where and why she was going, and only by a
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: great effort she understood the question. Yes, she said, handing
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: him her purse and taking a little red bag in
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: her hand, she got out of the carriage, making her
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: way through the crowd to the first class waiting room.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: She gradually recollected all the details of her position and
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: the plans between which she was hesitating, and again at
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: the old, sore places hope and then despair poisoned the
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: wounds of her tortured, fearfully throbbing heart. As she sat
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: on the star shaped sofa waiting for the train, she
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: gazed with aversion at the people coming and going. They
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: were all hateful to her, and thought how she would
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: arrive at the station, would write him a note, and
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: what she would write to him, And how he was
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: at this moment complaining to his mother of his position,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: not understanding her sufferings, and how she would go into
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: the room, and what she would say to him. Then
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: she thought that life might still be happy, and how
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: miserably she loved and hated him, and how fearfully her
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: heart was beating. Chapter thirty one. A bell rang. Some
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: young men, ugly and impudent and at the same time
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: careful of the impression they were making. Hurried by Pyotur
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: two crossed the room in his livery in top boots,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: with his dull animal face, and came up to her
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: to take her to the train. Some noisy men were
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: quiet as she passed them on the platform, and one
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: whispered something about her to another, something vile, no doubt.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: She stepped up on the high step and sat down
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: in a carriage by herself, on a dirty seat that
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: had been white. Her bag lay beside her, shaken up
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: and down by the springiness of the seat. With a
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: foolish smile, Pyotor raised his hat with its colored band
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: at the window in token of farewell. An impudent conductor
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: slammed the door and the latch a grotesque looking lady
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: wearing a bustle. Anna mentally undressed the woman and was
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: appalled at her hideousness, and a little girl, laughing affectedly,
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: ran down the platform. Katerina andre Vina, She's got them all, mataunt,
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: cried the girl. Even the child's hideous and affected, thought Anna.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: To avoid seeing anyone, she got up quickly and seated
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: herself at the opposite window of the empty carriage. A
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: misshapen looking peasant, covered with dirt in a cap from
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: which his tangled hair stuck out all round, passed by
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: that window, stooping down to the carriage wheels. There's something
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: familiar about that hideous peasant, thought Anna, and remembering her dream,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: she moved away to the opposite door, shaking with terror.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: The conductor opened the door and let in a man
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: and his wife. Do you wish to get out? Anna
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: made no answer. The conductor and her two fellow passengers
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: did not notice under her veil her panic stricken face.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: She went back to her corner and sat down. The
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: couples seated themselves on the opposite side and intently but
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: surreptitiously scrutinized her clothes. Both husband and wife seemed repulsive
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: to Anna. The husband asked would she allow him to smoke?
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: Obviously not, with a view to smoking, but to getting
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: into conversation with her. Receiving her assent, he said to
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: his wife in French something about caring less to smoke
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: than to talk. They made inane and affected remarks to
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: one another entirely for her benefit. Anna saw clearly that
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: they were sick of each other and hated each other,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: and no one could have helped hating such miserable monstrosities.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: A second bell sounded and was followed by moving of luggage, noise, shouting,
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: and laughter. It was so clear to Anna that there
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: was nothing for anyone to be glad of that this
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: laughter irritated her agonizingly, and she would have liked to
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: stop up her ears not to hear it. At last,
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: the third bell rang. There was a whistle and a
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: hiss of steam, and a clank of chains, and the
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: man in her carriage crossed himself. It would be interesting
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: to ask him what meaning he attaches to, that, thought Anne,
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: looking angrily at him. She looked past the lady out
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: of the window, at the people who seemed whirling by
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: as they ran beside the train or stood on the platform.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: The train jerking at regular intervals at the junctions of
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: the rails, rolled by the platform, past a stone wall,
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: a signal box, past other trains. The wheels, moving more
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: smoothly and evenly, resounded with a slight clang on the rails.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: The window was lighted up by the bright evening sun,
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: and a slight breeze fluttered the curtain. Anna forgot her
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: fellow passengers, and to the light swaying of the train,
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: she fell to thinking again as she breathed the fresh air. Yes,
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: what did I stop at? That I couldn't conceive a
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: position in which life would not be a misery? That
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: we are all created to be miserable, and that we
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: That's what reason is given man for to escape from
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: what worries him, said the lady in French, lisping affectedly
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: and obviously pleased with her phrase. The words seemed in
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: answer to Anna's thoughts. To escape from what worries him,
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: repeated Anna, and glancing at the red cheeked husband and
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: a thin wife, she saw that the sickly wife considered
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: herself misunderstood, and the husband deceived her and encouraged her
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: In that idea of herself, Anna seemed to see all
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: their history and all the crannies of their souls, as
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: it were turning a light upon them. But there was
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: nothing interesting in them, And she pursued her thought, Yes,
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: I'm very much worried, and that's what reason was given
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: me for to escape. So then one must escape. Why
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: not put out the light when there's nothing more to
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: look at? When it's sickening to look at it all?
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: But how Why did the conductor run along the footboard?
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: Why are they shrieking? Those young men in that train,
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: why are they talking? Why are they laughing? It's all falsehood,
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: all lying, all humbub, all cruelty. When the train came
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: into the station, Anna got out into the crowd of passengers,
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: and moving apart from them as if they were lepers.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: She stood on the platform trying to think what she
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: had come here for and what she meant to do.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: Everything that had seemed to her possible before was now
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: so difficult to consider, especially in this noisy crowd of
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: hideous people who would not leave her alone. One moment,
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: porters ran up to her, proffering their services, Then young
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: men clacking their heels on the planks of the platform
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: and talking loudly, stared at her people meeting her dodged
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: past on the wrong side, Remembering that she had meant
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: to go on further if there were no answer, She
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: stopped a porter and asked if her coachmen were not
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: here with a note from Count Vronsky. Count Vronsky, they
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: sent up here from the Vronskies just this minute to
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: meet Princess Sorrokina and her daughter. And what is the
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: coachman like. Just as she was talking to the porter,
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: the coachman, Mikhail, read and cheerful, and his smart blue
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: coat and chain, evidently proud of having so successfully performed
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: his commission, came up to her and gave her a letter.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: She broke it open and her heart ached before she
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: had read it. I am very sorry your note did
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: not reach me. I will be home at ten, Vronsky
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: had written carelessly. Yes, that's what I expected, she said
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: to herself with an evil smile. Very good. You can
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: go home, then, she said, softly, addressing Mikhail. She spoke
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: softly because the rapidity of her heart's beating hindered her breathing. No,
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: I won't let you make me miserable, she thought, menacingly,
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: addressing not him, not herself, but the power that made
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: her suffer. And she walked along the platform. Two maid
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: servants walking along the platform turned their heads, staring at
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: her and making some remarks about her dress. Real, they said,
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: of the lace she was wearing. The young men would
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: not leave her in peace again. They passed by, peering
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: into her face and with a laugh, shouting something in
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: an unnatural voice. The station master, coming up, asked her
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: whether she was going by train. A boy selling pause
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: never took his eyes off her. My God, where am
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: I to go? She thought? Going farther and farther along
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: the platform. At the end she stopped. Some ladies and
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: children who had come to meet a gentleman in spectacles,
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: paused in their loud laughter and talking, and stared at her.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: As she reached them, she quickened her pace and walked
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: away from them to the edge of the platform. A
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: luggage train was coming in. The platform began to sway,
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: and she fancied she was in the train again, And
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: all at once she thought of the man crushed by
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: the train the day she had first met Vronsky, and
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: she knew what she had to do. With a rapid
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: light step, she went down the steps that led from
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: the tank to the rails, and stopped quite near the
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: approaching train. She looked at the lower part of the carriages,
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: at the screws and chains, and the tall cast iron
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: wheel of the first carriage, slowly moving up, and trying
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: to measure the middle between the front and back wheels,
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: and the very minute when that middle point would be
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: opposite her. There, she said to herself, looking into the
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: shadow of the carriage, at the sand and coal dust
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: which covered the sleepers, there in the very middle, and
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: I will punish him, and escape from every one and
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: from myself. She tried to fling herself below the wheels
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: of the first carriage as it reached her, but the
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: red bag which she tried to drop out of her
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: hand delayed her, and she was too late. She missed
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: the moment she had to wait for the next carriage.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: A feeling such as she had known when about to
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: take the first plunge in bathing, came upon her, and
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: she crossed herself. That familiar gesture brought back into her
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: soul a whole series of girlish and childish memories, and
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: suddenly the darkness that had covered everything for her was
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: torn apart, and life rose up before her for an
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: instant with all its bright past joys. But she did
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: not take her eyes from the wheels of the second carriage,
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: And exactly at the moment when the space between the
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: wheels came opposite her, she dropped the red bag, and,
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: drawing her head back into her shoulders, fell on her
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: hands under the carriage, and lightly, as though she would
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: rise again, at once, dropped on to her knees. And
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: at the same instant she was terror stricken at what
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: she was doing. Where am I? What am I doing?
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: What for? She tried to get up to drop backwards,
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: but something huge and merciless struck her on the head
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: and rolled her on her back. Lord, forgive me all,
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: she said, feeling it impossible to struggle a peasant, muttering
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: something was working at the iron above her, and the
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow,
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before lighted
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: up for her. All that had been in darkness flickered,
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: began to grow dim, and was quenched forever. Part eight,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: Chapter one, Almost two months had passed, the hot summer
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: was half over, but Sergey Ivanovitch was only just preparing
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: to leave Moscow. Sergey Ivanovitch's life had not been uneventful
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: during this time. A year ago he had finished his
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: book The Fruit of six years labor sketch of a
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: Survey of the Principles and Forms of Government in Europe
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: and Russia. Several sections of this book and its introduction
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: had appeared in periodical publications, and other parts had been
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: read by Sergey Ivanofitch to persons of his circle, so
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: that the leading ideas of the work could not be
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: completely novel to the public. But still Sergey Ivanovich had
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: expected that on its appearance his book would be sure
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: to make a serious impression on society, and if it
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: did not cause a revolution in social science, it would
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: at any rate make a great stir in the scientific world.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: After the most conscientious revision, the book had last year
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: been published and had been distributed among the booksellers, though
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: he asked no one about it. Reluctantly and with feigned indifference,
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: answered his friend's inquiries as to how the book was going,
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: and did not even inquire of the booksellers how the
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: book was selling. Sergey Ivanofitch was all on the alert,
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: with strained attention, watching for the first impression his book
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: would make in the world and in literature. But a
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: week passed, a second, a third, and in society no
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: impression whatever could be detected. His friends, who were specialists
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: and savants, occasionally unmistakably from politeness, alluded to it. The
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: rest of his acquaintances, not interested in a book on
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: a learned subject, did not talk of it at all,
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: and society, generally, just now, especially absorbed in other things,
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: was absolutely indifferent. In the press too, For a whole
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: month there was not a word about his book. Sergey
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: Ivanofitch had calculated to a nicety the time necessary for
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: writing a review. But a month passed, and a second,
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: and still there was silence. Only in the Northern Beadle.
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: In a comic article on the singer Drabanti, who had
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: lost his voice, there was a contemptuous allusion to Koshnishev's book,
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: suggesting that the book had been long ago seen through
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: by everyone and was a subject of general ridicule. At last,
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: in the third month, a critical article appeared in a
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: serious review. Sergey Ivanovich knew the author of the article.
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: He had met him once at Globsov's. The author of
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: the article was a young man, an invalid, very bold
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: as a writer, but extremely deficient in breeding and shy
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: in personal relations. In spite of his absolute contempt for
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: the author, it was with complete respect that Sergey Ivanovitch
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: set about reading the article. The article was awful. The
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: critic had undoubtedly put an interpretation upon the book which
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: could not possibly be put on it. But he had
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: selected quotations so adroitly that for people who had not
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: read the book, and obviously scarcely any one had read it,
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: it seemed absolutely clear that the whole book was nothing
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: but a medley of high flown phrases, not even as
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: suggested by marks of interrogation, used appropriately, and that the
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: author of the book was a person absolutely without knowledge
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: of the subject. And all this was so wittily done
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: that Sergey Ivanovitch would not have disowned such with himself.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: But that was just what was so awful. In spite
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: of the scrupulous conscientiousness with which Sergey Ivanovitch verified the
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: correctness of the critic's arguments, he did not, for a
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: minute stop to ponder over the faults and mistakes which
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: were ridiculed, but unconsciously he began immediately trying to recall
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: every detail of his meeting and conversation with the author
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: of the article. Didn't I offend him in some way,
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: Sergey Ivanovitch wondered, and remembering that when they met, he
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: had corrected the young man about something he had said
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: that betrayed ignorance, Sergey Ivanovitch found the clue to explain
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: the article. This article was followed by a deadly silence
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: about the book, both in the press and in conversation,
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: and Sergey Ivanovitch saw that his six years task toiled
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: that with such love and labor, had gone, leaving no trace.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: Sergey Ivanovitch's position was still more difficult from the fact
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: that since he had finished his book, he had had
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: no more literary work to do, such as had hitherto
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: occupied the greater part of his time. Sergey Ivanovitch was clever, cultivated,
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: healthy and energetic, and he did not know what use
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: to make of his energy. Conversations in drawing rooms, in meetings, assemblies,
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: and committees, everywhere where talk was possible, took up part
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: of his time, but being used for years to town life,
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: he did not waste all his energies in talk, as
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: his less experienced younger brother did when he was in Moscow.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: He had a great deal of leisure and intellectual energy
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: still to dispose of. Fortunately for him, at this period,
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: so differentfficult for him from the failure of his book.
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: The various public questions of the dissenting sects of the
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: American Alliance, of the Samara, famine, of exhibitions, and of
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: spiritualism were definitely replaced in public interest by the Slavonic question,
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: which had hitherto rather languidly interested society. And Sergey Ivanofitch,
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: who had been one of the first to raise this subject,
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: threw himself into it heart and soul. In the circle
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: to which Sergey Ivanovitch belonged, nothing was talked of were
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: written about just now, but the Servian War. Everything that
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: the idle crowd usually does to kill time was done
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: now for the benefit of the Slavonic states. Balls, concerts, dinners,
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: match boxes, ladies, dresses, beer, restaurants, everything testified to sympathy
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: with the Slavonic peoples. From much of what was spoken
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: and written on the subject, Sergey Ivanovich differed on various points.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: He saw that the Slavonic question had become one of
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: those fashionable dist actions which succeed one another in providing
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: society with an object and an occupation. He saw too,
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: that a great many people were taking up the subject
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: from motives of self interest and self advertisement. He recognized
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: that the newspapers published a great deal that was superfluous
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: and exaggerated, with the sole aim of attracting attention in
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: outbidding one another. He saw that in this general movement,
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: those who thrust themselves most forward and shouted the loudest
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: were men who had failed and were smarting under a
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: sense of injury. Generals without armies, ministers not in the ministry,
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: journalists not on any paper, party leaders without followers. He
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: saw that there was a great deal in it that
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: was frivolous and absurd. But he saw and recognized an
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: unmistakable growing enthusiasm uniting all classes, with which it was
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: impossible not to sympathize. The massacre of men who were
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: fellow Christians and of the same Slavonic race excited sympathy
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: for the sufferers and indignation against the oppressors, and the
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: heroism of the Serbians and Montenegrin struggling for a great
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: cause begot in the whole people a longing to help
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: their brothers, not in word, but indeed. But in this
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: there was another aspect that rejoiced Sergey Ivanovitch. That was
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: the manifestation of public opinion. The public had definitely expressed
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: its desire. The soul of the people had, as Sergey
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: Ivanovitch said, found expression. And the more he worked in
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: this cause, the more incontestable it seemed to him that
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: it was a cause destined to assume vast dimensions, to
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: create an epoch. He threw himself heart and soul into
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: the service of this great cause, and forgot to think
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: about his book. His whole time now was engrossed by it,
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: so that he could scarcely manage to answer all the
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: letters and appeals addressed to him. He worked the whole
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: spring and part of the summer, and it was only
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: in July that he prepared to go away to his
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: brothers in the country. He was going both to rest
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: for a fortnight and in the very heart of the people,
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: in the farthest wilds of the country, to enjoy the
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: sight of that uplifting of the spirit of the people,
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: of which, like all residents in the capital and big towns.
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: He was fully persuaded. Katavasov had long been meaning to
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: carry out his promise to stay with Levin, and so
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: he was going with him. Chapter two. Sergey Ivanovitch and
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: Katavasov had only just reached the station of the Cursed Line,
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: which was particularly busy full of people that day. When
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: looking round for the groom, who was following with their things,
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: they saw a party of volunteers driving up in four cabs.
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: Ladies met them with bouquets of flowers, and, followed by
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: the rushing crowd, they went into the station. One of
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: the ladies who had met the volunteers came out of
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: the hall and addressed Sergey Ivanovich. You two come to
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: see them off? She asked in French. No, I'm going
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: away myself, Princess, to my brothers for a holiday. Do
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: you always see them off? Said Sergey Ivanovich with a
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: hardly perceptible smile. Oh, that would be impossible, answered the princess.
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: Is it true that eight hundred have been sent from
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: us already? Malvinsky wouldn't believe me more than eight hundred
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: if you reckon those who have been sent not directly
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: from Moscow, over a thousand, answered Sergey Ivanovich. There, that's
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: just what I said, exclaimed the lady. And it's true too.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: I suppose that more than a million has been subscribed. Yes, Princess,
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: what do you say to today's telegram? Beaten the Turks again? Yes,
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: so I saw, answered Sergey Ivanovitch. They were speaking of
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: the last telegram stating that the Turks had been for
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: three days in succession, beaten at all points and put
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: to flight, and that tomorrow a decisive engagement was expected. Ah.
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: By the way, a splended young fellow has asked leave
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: to go, and they've made some difficulty. I don't know
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: why I meant to ask you. I know him, Please
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: write a note about his case. He's being sent by
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: Countess Lydia Ivanovna. Sergey Ivanovitch asked for all the details.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: The Princess knew about the young man, and, going into
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: the first class waiting room, wrote a note to the
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: person on whom the granting of leave of absence depended
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: and handed it to the princess. You know, Count Vronsky,
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: the notorious one is going by this train, said the princess,
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: with a smile full of triumph and meaning when he
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: found her again and gave her the letter. I had
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: heard he was going, but I did not know when
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: by this train. I've seen him. He's here. There's only
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: his mother seeing him off. It's the best thing anyway
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: that he could do. Oh. Yes, of course. While they
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: were talking, the crowd streamed by them into the dining room.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: They went forward too, and heard a gentleman with a
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: glass in his hand, delivering a loud discourse to the
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: volunteers in the service of religion, humanity, and our brothers.
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: The gentleman said, his voice growing louder and louder, to
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: this great caused Mother Moscow dedicates you with her blessing Jivio,
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: he concluded, loudly and tearfully. Everyone shouted Jivio, and a
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: fresh crowd dashed into the hall, almost carrying the princess
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: off her legs. Ah, Princess, that was something like, said
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: Stepan Arkadyevitch, suddenly appearing in the middle of the crowd
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: and beaming upon them with a delighted smile. Capitally warmly said,
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: wasn't it bravo? And Sergey Ivanovitch, why you ought to
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: have said something? Just a few words, you know, to
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: encourage them. You do that so well, he added, with
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: a soft, respectful and discreet smile, moving Sergey Ivanich forward
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: a little by the arm. No, I'm just off where
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: to to the country, to my brothers, answered Sergey Ivanovitch.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: Then you'll see my wife. I've written to her, but
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: you'll see her first. Please tell her that they've seen
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: me and that it's all right as the English say.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: She'll understand. Oh, and be so good as to tell
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: her I'm appointed secretary of the committee. But she'll understand.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: You know, les petitz Miser's de lavay humane, he said,
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: as it were, apologizing to the princess, and Princess Mayakaya,
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: not Liza, but Bibbish is sending a thousand guns and
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: twelve nurses. Did I tell you? Yes, I heard so,
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: answered Kosnashev indifferently. It's a pity you're going away, said
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: Stepan Arkadyevitch. Tomorrow we're giving a dinner to two who
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: are setting off, Daimer Bartniynsky from Petersburg, Innar Veslovsky, Grisha.
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: They're both going. Veslovsky's only lately married. There's a fine
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: fellow for you, eh, Princess. He turned to the lady.
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: The princess looked at Kosnashchev without replying. But the fact
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: that Sergey Ivanovich and the Princess seemed anxious to get
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: rid of him did not in the least disconcert step
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: in Arkadyevitch. Smiling, he stared at the feather in the
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: Princess's hat, and then about him, as though he were
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: going to pick something up. Seeing a lady approaching with
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: a collecting box, he beckoned her up and put in
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: a five rouble note. I can never see these collecting
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: boxes unmoved, while I've money in my pocket, he said,
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: And how about today's telegram? Fine chaps, those Montenegrins, you
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: don't say so, he cried, when the princess told him
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: that Vronsky was going by this train for an instant
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: step in Arkadyevitch's face looked sad. But a minute later,
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: when stroking his mustaches and swinging as he walked, he
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: went into the hall where Vronsky was. He had completely
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: forgotten his own despairing sobs over his sister's corpse, and
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: he saw in Vronsky only a hero and an old friend.
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: With all his faults, one can't refuse to do him justice,
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: said the Princess to Sergey Ivanovitch, as soon as stepan
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: Arkadyevitch had left them, what a typically Russian slav nature.
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: Only I'm afraid it won't be pleasant for Vronsky to
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: see him. Say what you will, untouched by that man's fate,
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: do talk to him a little on the way, said
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: the princess. Yes, perhaps, if it happens so. I never
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: liked him, but this atones for a great deal. He's
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: not merely going himself. He's taking a squadron at his
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: own expense. Yes, so I heard a bell sounded. Every
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 1: one crowded to the doors. Here he is, said the princess,
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: indicated Vronsky, who with his mother on his arm, walked
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: by wearing a long overcoat and wide brimmed black hat.
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: Oblonsky was walking beside him, talking eagerly of something. Vronsky
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: was frowning and looking straight before him, as though he
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: did not hear what stepan Arkadyevitch was saying, Probably on
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: Oblonsky's pointing them out. He looked round in the direction
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: where the Princess and Sergey Ivanofitch were standing, and, without speaking,
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: lifted his hat. His face aged and worn by suffering,
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: looked stony. Going onto the platform, Vronsky left his mother
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: and disappeared into a compartment On the platform. There rang
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: out God save the Tsar, then shouts of Hurrah and Jivio.
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: One of the volunteers, a tall, very young man with
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: a hollow chest, was particularly conspicuous, bowing and waving his
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: felt hat and a nosegay over his head. Then two
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: officers emerged, bowing too, and a stout man with a
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: big beard wearing a greet d forage cap. Chapter three,
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: saying good bye to the princess. Sergey Ivanovich was joined
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: by Katavasov. Together they got into a carriage full to overflowing,
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: and the train started at Seratsino station. The train was
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: met by a chorus of young men singing Hail to
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: thee Again. The volunteers bowed and poked their heads out,
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 1: but Sergey Ivanofitch paid no attention to them. He had
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: had so much to do with the volunteers that the
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: type was familiar to him and did not interest him. Katavasov,
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: whose scientific work had prevented his having a chance of
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: observing them hitherto, was very much interested in them, and
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: questioned Sergey Ivanovich. Sergey Ivanovich advised him to go into
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: the second class and talk to them himself at the
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: next station. Katavasov acted on this suggestion. At the first stop,
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: he moved into the second class and made the acquaintance
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: of the volunteers. They were sitting in a corner of
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: the carriage, talking loudly. In Ovius, aware that the attention
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: of the passengers in Katavasov as he got in was
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: concentrated upon them more loudly than all, talked the tall,
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: hollow chested young man. He was unmistakably tipsy and was
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: relating some story that had occurred at his school. Facing
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: him sat a middle aged officer in the Austrian military
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: jacket of the guard's uniform. He was listening with a
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: smile to the hollow chested youth and occasionally pulling him up.
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: The third, in an artillery uniform, was sitting on a
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: box beside them. A fourth was asleep. Entering into conversation
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: with the youth, Katavasov learned that he was a wealthy
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: Moscow merchant who had run through a large fortune before
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: he was two and twenty. Katavasov did not like him
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: because he was unmanly and effeminate and sickly. He was
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: obviously convinced, especially now after drinking, that he was performing
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: a heroic action, and he bragged of it in the
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: most unpleasant way. The second, the retired officer, made an
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: unpleasant impression too, upon Katavasov. He was, it seemed, a
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: man who had tried everything. He had been on a railway,
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: had been a land steward, and had started factories. And
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: he talked quite without necessity of all he had done,
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: and used learned expressions quite inappropriately. The third, the artilleryman,
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: on the contrary, struck Katavasov very favorably. He was a quiet,
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: modest fellow, unmistakably impressed by the knowledge of the officer
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: and the heroic self sacrifice of the merchant, in saying
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: nothing about himself. When Katavasov asked him what had impelled
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: him to go to Servia, he answered modestly, Oh, well,
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: every one's going. The Serbians want help too. I'm sorry
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: for them. Yes, you artillerymen especially are scarce there, said Katavasov. Oh,
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: I wasn't long in the artillery. Maybe they'll put me
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: into the infantry or the cavalry into the infantry when
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: they need artillery more than anything, said Katavasov, fancying from
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: the artilleryman's apparent age that he must have reached a
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: fairly high grade. I wasn't long in the artillery. I'm
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: a cadet, retired, he said, and he began to explain
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: how he had failed in his examination. All of this
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: together made a disagreeable impression on Katavasov, and when the
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: volunteers got out at a station for a drink, Katavsov
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: would have liked to compare his unfavorable impression in conversation
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: with some one. There was an old man in the
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: carriage wearing a military overcoat who had been listening all
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 1: the while to Katavasov's conversation with the volunteers. When they
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: were left alone, Katavasov addressed him, What different positions they
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: come from, all those fellows who are going off there,
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: Katavasov said, vaguely, not wishing to express his own opinion,
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: and at the same time anxious to find out the
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 1: old man's views. The old man was an officer who
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: had served on two campaigns. He knew what makes a soldier, and,
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: judging by the appearance and the talk of those persons
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: by the swagger with which they had recourse to the
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: bottle on the journey, he considered them poor soldiers. Moreover,
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: he lived in a district town, and he was longing
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: to tell how one soldier had volunteered from his town,
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: a drunkard and a thief, whom no one would employ
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: as a laborer. But knowing by experience that in the
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: present condition of the public temper it was dangerous to
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: express an opinion opposed to the general one, and especially
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: to criticize the volunteers unfavorably, he too watched Katavsov without
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: committing himself. Well, men are wanted there, he said, laughing
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: with his eyes. And they fell to talking of the
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: last worn news, and each concealed from the other his
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: perplexity as to the engagement expected next day, since the
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: Turks had been beaten according to the latest news at
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: all points. And so they parted, neither giving expression to
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: his opinion. Katavsov went back to his own care, and
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: with reluctant hypocrisy, reported to Sergey Ivanovich's observations of the volunteers,
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: from which it would appear that they were capital fellows
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: at a big station at a town, the volunteers were
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: again greeted with shouts and singing. Again, men and women
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: with collecting boxes appeared, and provincial ladies brought bouquets to
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: the volunteers and followed them into the refreshment room. But
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 1: all this was on a much smaller and feebler scale
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: than in Moscow Chapter four. While the train was stopping
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: at the provincial town, Sergey Ivanofitch did not go to
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: the refreshment room, but walked up and down the platform.
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: The first time he passed Vronsky's compartment, he noticed that
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: the curtain was drawn over the window. But as he
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: passed at the second time, he saw the old countess
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: at the window. She beckoned to Kosnishev, I'm going, you see,
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: taking him as far as Kersk. She said, Yes, so
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: I heard, said Sergey Ivanovich standing at her window and
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 1: peeping in. What a noble act on his part, he added,
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: noticing that Vronsky was not in the compartment. Yes, after
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: his misfortune, what was there for him to do? What
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: a terrible thing it was, said Sergey Ivanovitch, Ah what
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: I have been through. But do get in, ah what
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: I have been through? She repeated. When Sergey Ivanovitch had
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 1: got in and sat down beside her. You can't conceive it.
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 1: For six weeks he did not speak to any one
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: and would not touch food except when I implored him,
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: And not for one minute could we leave him alone.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: We took away everything he could have used against himself.
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 1: We lived on the ground floor, but there was no
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: reckoning on anything. You know, of course, that he had
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: shot himself once already on her account, she said, And
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: the old lady's eye lashes twitched at the recollection. Yes,
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 1: hers was the fitting end for such a woman. Even
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: the death she chose was low and vulgar. It's not
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 1: for us to judge, Countess, said Sergey Ivanovitch, but I
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: can understand that it has been very hard for you. Ah,
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: don't speak of it. I was staying on my estate
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 1: and he was with me. A note was brought him.
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: He wrote an answer and sent it off. We hadn't
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: an idea that she was close by at the station.
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: In the evening, I had only just gone to my
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: room when my Mary told me a lady had thrown
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: herself under the train. Something seemed to strike me at once.
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 1: I knew it was she. The first thing I said was.
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: He was not to be told, but they'd told him already.
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: His coachman was there and saw it all. When I
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: ran into his room, he was beside himself. It was
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 1: fearful to see him. He didn't say a word, but
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: galloped off there. I don't know to this day what
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: happened there, but he was brought back at death's door.
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: I shouldn't have known him. Prostration complete, the doctor said,
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: And that was followed almost by madness. Oh why talk
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 1: of it, said the countess, with a wave of her hand.
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: It was an awful time. No say what you will.
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: She was a bad woman. Why what is the meaning
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: of such desperate passions? It was all to show herself
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: something out of the way. Well, and that she did do.
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: She brought herself to Ruin and two good men, her
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 1: husband and my unhappy son. And what did her husband do,
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: asked Sergey Ivanovitch. He has taken her daughter. Alexey was
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: ready to agree to anything at first. Now it worries
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: him terribly that he should have given his own child
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: away to another man. But he can't take back his word.
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: Korenin came to the funeral, but we tried to prevent
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: his meeting Alexey for him, for her husband, it was
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: easier anyway. She had set him free. But my poor
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: son was utterly given up to her. He had thrown
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: up everything, his career, me and even then she had
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: no mercy on him. But of set purpose she made
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: his ruin complete. No say what you will. Her very
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 1: death was the death of a vile woman of no
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: religious feeling. God forgive me, but I can't help hating
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: the memory of her when I look at my son's misery.
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 1: But how is he now? It was a blessing from
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: providence for us, this Servian war. I'm old and I
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: don't understand the rights and wrongs of it, but it's
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: come as a providential blessing to him. Of course, for
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: me as his mother, it's terrible. And what's worse, they say,
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: see Na Patrace b env u Ah Petersburg. But it
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 1: can't be helped. It was the one thing that could
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: rouse him. Yashvin, a friend of his. He had lost
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 1: all he had at cards and he was going to Servia.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: He came to see him and pres perswaited him to go.
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: Now it's an interest for him. Do please talk to
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 1: him a little? I want to distract his mind. He's
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: so low spirited, and as bad luck would have it,
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: he has toothache too. But he'll be delighted to see you.
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 1: Please do talk to him. He's walking up and down
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: on that side. Sergey Ivanofitch said he would be very
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 1: glad to and crossed over to the other side of
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 1: the station. Chapter five. In the slanting evening shadows cast
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 1: by the baggage piled up on the platform, Vronsky, in
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 1: his long overcoat and slouch hat, with his hands in
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: his pockets, strode up and down like a wild beast
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: in a cage, turning sharply. After twenty paces. Sergey Ivanofitch
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: fancied as he approached him that Vronsky saw him but
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 1: was pretending not to see. This did not affect Sergey
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: Ivanofitch in the slightest. He was above all personal considerations
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: with Vronsky. At that moment. Sergey Ivanovitch looked upon Vronsky
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: as a man taking an important part in a great cause,
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: and Kosnashchef thought it his duty to encourage him and
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: express his approval. He went up to him. Vronsky stood still,
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: looked intently at him, recognized him, and going a few
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: steps forward to meet him, shook hands with him very warmly.
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: Possibly you didn't wish to see me, said Sergey Ivanovitch.
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: But couldn't I be of use to you? There's no
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: one I should less dislike seeing than you, said Vronsky.
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: Excuse me, and there's nothing in life for me to like.
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: I quite understand, and I merely meant to offer you
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 1: my services, said Sergey Ivanovitch, scanning Vronsky's face full of
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 1: unmistakable suffering. Wouldn't it be of use to you to
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 1: have a letter to Ristitch to Milan? Oh? No, Vronsky said,
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 1: seeming to understand him with difficulty. If you don't mind,
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: let's walk on. It's so stuffy among the carriages, A letter,
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: no thank you? To meet death, one needs no letters
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: of introduction, nor for the Turks, he said, with a
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: smile that was merely of the lips. His eyes still
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 1: kept their look of angry suffering. Yes, but you might
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: find it easier to get into relations, which are after
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 1: all essential, with any one prepared to see you. But
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 1: that's as you like. I was very glad to hear
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: of your intention. There have been so many attacks made
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 1: on the volunteers and a man like you raises them
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: in public estimation. My use as a man, said Vronsky,
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 1: is that life's worth nothing to me, and that I've
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: enough bodily energy to cut my way into their ranks
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: and to trample on them or fall. I know that
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 1: I'm glad there's something to give my life for, for
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: it's not simply useless, but loathsome to me. Any one's
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: welcome to it. And his jaw twitched impatiently from the incessant,
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: gnawing toothache that prevented him from even speaking with a
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: natural expression. You will become another man, I predict said
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: Sergey Ivanovitch, feeling touched to deliver one's brother men from bondage.
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 1: Is an aim worth death and life. God grant you
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: success outwardly and inwardly peace, he added, and he held
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: out his hand. Vronsky warmly pressed his outstretched hand. Yes,
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: as a weapon, I may be of some use, but
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: as a man, I'm a wreck, he jerked out. He
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 1: could hardly speak for the throbbing ache in his strong
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: teeth that were like rows of ivory in his mouth.
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: He was silent, and his eyes rested on the wheels
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: of the tender, slowly and smoothly rolling along the rails,
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: and all at once a different pain, not an ache,
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: but an inner trouble that set his whole being in anguish,
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 1: made him for an instant forget his toothache. As he
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: glanced at the tender and the rails. Under the influence
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 1: of the conversation with a friend he had not met
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: since his misfortune, he suddenly recalled her, that is what
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 1: was left of her when he had run like one
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: distraught into the cloak room of the railway station, on
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: the table, shamelessly sprawling out among strangers, the blood stained
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: body so lately full of life, the head unhurt dropping
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: back with its weight of hair, and the curling tresses
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: about the temples, and the exquisite face with red half
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: open mouth, the strange fixed expression, piteous on the lips
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: and awful in the still open eyes, that seemed to
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 1: utter that fearful phrase that he would be sorry for it,
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 1: that she had said when they were quarreling, And he
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: tried to think of her as she was when he
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: met her the first time at a railway station, too mysterious, exquisite, loving,
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: seeking and giving happiness, and not cruelly revengeful as he
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 1: remembered her. On that last moment, he tried to recall
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: his best moments with her, but those moments were poisoned forever.
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 1: He could only think of her as triumphant, successful in
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: her menace of a wholly useless remorse, never to be effaced.
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: He lost all consciousness of toothache, and his face worked
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: with sobs, Passing twice up and down beside the baggage.
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 1: In silence and regaining his self possession, he addressed Sergey
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: Ivanovich calmly, you have had no telegrams since yesterdays. Yes,
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: driven back for a third time, but a decisive engagement
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 1: expected for tomorrow, and after talking a little more of
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: King Milan's proclamation and the immense effect it might have,
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 1: they parted, going to their carriages on hearing the second bell.
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: Chapter six, Sergey Ivanovitch had not telegraphed to his brother
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: to send to meet him, as he did not know
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: when he should be able to leave Moscow. Levin was
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 1: not at home when Katavasov and Sergey Ivanovich, in a
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: fly hired at the station, drove up to the steps
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 1: of the Pokrovsko house as black as moors from the
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: dust of the road. Kitty, sitting on the balcony with
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 1: her father and sister, recognized her brother in law and
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 1: ran down to meet him. What a shame not to
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 1: have let us know, she said, giving her hand to
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: Sergey Ivanovitch and putting her forehead up for him to kiss.
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: We drove here capitally and have not put you out,
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 1: answered Sergey Ivanovitch. I'm so dirty, I'm afraid to touch you.
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  Speaker 1: I've been so busy I didn't know when I should
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 1: be able to tear myself away. And so you're still
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 1: as ever, enjoying your peaceful, quiet happiness, he said, smiling
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 1: out of the reach of the current, in your peaceful backwater.
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 1: Here's our friend Fyodor Vassilevitch, who has succeeded in getting
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 1: here at last. But I'm not a negro. I shall
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: look like a human being when I wash, said Katavasov
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 1: in his jesting fashion, and he shook hands and smiled,
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 1: his teeth flashing white in his black face. Kostia will
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: be delighted he has gone to his settlement. It's time
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 1: he should be home, busy as ever with his farming.
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: It really is a peaceful backwater, said Katavasov, while we
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: in town think of nothing but the Servian war. Well,
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 1: how does our friend look at it. He's sure not
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: to think like other people. Oh, I don't know, like
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 1: everybody else, Kitty answered, a little embarrassed, looking round at
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 1: Sergey Ivanofitch. I'll send to fetch him. Papa's staying with us.
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 1: He's only just come home from abroad, and making arrangements
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: to send for Levin and for the guests to wash,
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 1: one in his room and the other in what had
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: been Dolly's, and giving orders for their luncheon. Kitty ran
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: out onto the balcony, enjoying the freedom and rapidity of
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: movement of which she had been deprived during the months
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: of her pregnancy. It's Sergey Ivanofych and Katavasov, a professor.
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 1: She said. Oh that's a bore in this heat, said
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 1: the prince. No, Papa, he's very nice, and Kostia is
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: very fond of him, Kitty said, with a deprecating smile,
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 1: noticing the irony on her father's face. Oh I didn't
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 1: say anything. You go to them, darling, said Kitty to
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 1: her sister, and entertain them. They saw Stiva at the station.
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 1: He was quite well, and I must run to Mitya
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: as ill luck would have it. I haven't fed him
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: since tea. He's awake now and sure to be screaming
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: and feeling a rush of milk. She hurried to the nursery.
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 1: This was not a mere guess. Her connection with the
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 1: child was still so close that she could gage by
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 1: the flow of her milk's need of food, and knew
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 1: for certain he was hungry. She knew he was crying
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: before she reached the nursery, and he was indeed crying.
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 1: She heard him and hastened, But the faster she went,
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: the louder he screamed. It was a fine, healthy scream,
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 1: hungry and impatient. Has he been screaming? Long? Nurse? Very long?
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 1: Said Kitty, hurriedly, seating herself on a chair and preparing
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: to give the baby the break. But give me him quickly,
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: oh nurse, how tiresome you are there? Tie the cap afterwards?
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 1: Do the baby's greedy scream was passing into sobs. But
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 1: you can't manage so, ma'am, said Agafea Mihalovna, who was
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 1: almost always to be found in the nursery. He must
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 1: be put straight Ao aoh, She chanted over him, paying
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 1: no attention to the mother. The nurse brought the baby
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: to his mother. Agafeya Mihalovna followed him with a face
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: dissolving with tenderness. He knows me, he knows me in
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: God's faith, Katerina Alexandrovna, ma'am, he knew me, Agafya Mihalovna
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 1: cried above the baby's screams, but Kitty did not hear
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 1: her words. Her impatience kept growing like the babies. Their
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 1: impatience hindered things for a while. The baby could not
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 1: get hold of the breast right and was furious. At last,
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 1: after despairing, breathless screaming and vain sucking, things went right,
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 1: and mother and child felt simultaneously soothed and both subsided
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 1: into calm. But poor darling, he's all in perspiration, said
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 1: Kitty in a whisper, touching the baby. What makes you
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: think he knows you, she added, with a sidelong glance
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 1: at the baby's eyes that peered roguishly as she fancied
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 1: from under his cap, at his rhythmically puffing cheeks and
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 1: the little red palmed hand he was waving impossible. If
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 1: he knew any one, he would have known me, said
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 1: Kitty in response to Agafea Mihalovna's statement, And she smiled.
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 1: She smiled because though she said he could not know her,
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 1: in her heart, she was sure that he knew, not
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 1: merely Agafea Mihalovna, but that he knew and understood everything,
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 1: and knew and understood a great deal too, that no
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: one else knew, and that she, his mother, had learned
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: and come to understand only through him. To Agafya Mihalovna,
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 1: to the nurse, to his grandfather, to his father. Even
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 1: Mitya was a living being, requiring only material care. But
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 1: for his mother he had long been a mortal being
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 1: with whom there had been a whole series of spiritual
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 1: relations already. When he wakes up, please God, you shall
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 1: see for yourself. Then, when I do like this, he
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 1: simply beams on me, The darling simply beams like a
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 1: sunny day, said Agafya Mihalovna. Well, well then we shall see,
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 1: whispered Kitty. But now go away. He's going to sleep.
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 1: Chapter seven, Agafya Mihalovna went out on tiptoe. The nurse
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: let down. The blind chased a fly out from under
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: the muslin canopy of the crib and a bumblebee struggling
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 1: on the window frame, and sat down, waving a faded
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 1: branch of birch over the mother and the baby. How
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 1: hot it is? If God would send a drop of rain,
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: She said, yes, yes, s H, s H s H
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 1: was all Kitty answered, rocking a little and tenderly squeezing
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 1: the plump little arm with rolls of fat at the wrist,
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 1: which Mitya still waved feebly as he opened and shut
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 1: his eyes. That hand worried Kitty. She longed to kiss
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: the little hand, but was afraid to for fear of
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 1: waking the baby. At last, the little hand ceased waving,
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 1: and the eyes closed only from time to time as
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 1: he went unsucking. The baby raised his long, curly eyelashes
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 1: and peeped at his mother with wet eyes that looked black.
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 1: In the twilight, the nurse had left off fanning and
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 1: was dozing. From above came the peals of the old
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 1: Prince's voice and the chuckle of Katavasov. They have got
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 1: into talk without me, thought Kitty. But still it's vexing
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 1: that costy is out. He should have gone to the
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 1: bee house again. Though it's a pity he's there so often. Still,
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 1: I'm glad it distracts his mind. He's become altogether happier
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 1: and better now than in the spring. He used to
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: be so gloomy and worried that I felt frightened for him.
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 1: And how absurd he is, she whispered, smiling. She knew
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 1: what worried her husband. It was his unbelief. Although if
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 1: she had been asked whether she supposed that in the
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 1: future life, if he did not believe, he would be damned,
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: she would have had to admit that he would be damned.
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: His unbelief did not cause her unhappiness, and she, confessing
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 1: that for an unbeliever there can be no salvation and
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 1: loving her husband soul more than anything in the world,
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 1: thought with a smile of his unbelief, and told herself
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 1: that he was absurd. What does he keep reading philosophy
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 1: of some sort for all this year? She wondered, If
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 1: it's all written in those books, he can understand them.
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 1: If it's all wrong, why does he read them? He
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 1: says himself that he would like to believe, Then why
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 1: is it he doesn't believe, surely from his thinking so much,
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 1: and he thinks so much from being solitary, he's always alone, alone,
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 1: he can't talk about it all to us. I fancy
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 1: he'll be glad of these visitors, especially Katavasov. He likes
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 1: discussions with them, she thought, and passed instantly to the
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 1: consideration of where it would be more convenient to put
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 1: Katavasov to sleep alone or to share Sergey Ivanovitch's room,
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 1: And then an idea suddenly struck her, which made her
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 1: shudder and even disturbed Mitya, who glanced severely at her.
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 1: I do believe the laundress hasn't sent the washing yet,
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 1: and all the best sheets are in use. If I
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 1: don't see to it, Agafya Mihalovna will give Sergey Ivanofitch
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 1: the wrong sheets. And at the very idea of this,
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 1: the blood rushed to Kitty's face. Yes, I will arrange it,
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 1: she decided, and going back to her former thoughts, she
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 1: remembered that some spiritual question of importance had been interrupted,
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 1: and she began to recall Yes, Kostia an unbeliever, she
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 1: thought again with a smile, Well, an unbeliever, then better
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 1: let him always be one than like Madame stall Or
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 1: what I tried to be in those days abroad. No,
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 1: he won't ever sham anything. And a recent instance of
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 1: his goodness rose vividly to her mind. A fortnight ago,
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 1: a penitent letter had come from Stepan Arkadyevitch to Dolly.
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 1: He besought her to save his honor, to sell her
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 1: estate to pay his debts. Dolly was in despair. She
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 1: detested her husband, despised him, pitied him, resolved on a separation,
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 1: resolved to refuse, but ended by agreeing to sell part
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 1: of her property. After that, with an irrepressible smile of tenderness,
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 1: Kitty recalled her husband's shamefaced embarrassment, his repeated awkward efforts
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 1: to approach the subject, and how, at last, having thought
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 1: of the one means of helping Dolly without wounding her pride,
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 1: he had suggested to Kitty what had not occurred to
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 1: her before, that she should give up her share of
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 1: the property. He an unbeliever, indeed with his heart his
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 1: dread of offending any one, even a child. Everything for others,
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 1: nothing for himself. Sergey Ivanovitch simply considers it as costly
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 1: as duty to be his steward. And it's the same
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 1: with his sister. Now Dolly and her children are under
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 1: his guardianship, all these peasants who come to him every
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 1: day as though he were bound to be at their service. Yes,
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 1: only be like your father, Only like him, she said,
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 1: handing Mitya over to the nurse and putting her lips
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 1: to his cheek. Chapter eight. Ever since, by his beloved
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 1: brother's death bed, Levin had first glanced into the questions
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 1: of life and death. In the light of these new convictions,
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 1: as he called them, which had during the period from
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 1: his twentieth to his thirty fourth year imperceptibly replaced his
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 1: childish and youthful beliefs. He had been stricken with horror,
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 1: not so much of death as of life without any
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: knowledge of whence and why and how and what it was.
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 1: The physical organization, its decay, the indestructibility of matter, the
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 1: law of the conservation of energy, evolution were the words
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 1: which usurped the place of his old belief. These words
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 1: and the ideas associated with them were very well for
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 1: intellectual purposes, but for life they yielded nothing, And Levin
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 1: felt suddenly like a man who has changed his warm
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 1: fur cloak for a muslin garment, and going for the
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 1: first time into the frost, is immediately convinced, not by
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 1: reason but by his whole nature, that he is as
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 1: good as naked, and that he must infallibly perish miserably
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: from that moment, though he did not distinctly face it
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 1: and still went on living as before, Levin had never
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 1: lost this sense of terror at his lack of knowledge.
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 1: He vaguely felt too, that what he called his new
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 1: convictions were not merely lack of knowledge, but that they
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 1: were part of a whole order of ideas in which
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 1: no knhsledge of what he needed was possible. At first, marriage,
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 1: with the new joys and duties bound up with it,
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 1: had completely crowded out these thoughts. But of late, while
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 1: he was staying in Moscow after his wife's confinement, with
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 1: nothing to do, the question that clamored for solution had
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 1: more and more often, more and more insistently haunted Levin's mind.
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 1: The question was summed up for him, thus, if I
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 1: do not accept the ANSWER's Christianity gives to the problems
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 1: of my life, what answers do I accept? And in
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 1: the whole arsenal of his convictions, so far from finding
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 1: any satisfactory answers, he was utterly unable to find anything
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 1: at all like an answer. He was in the position
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 1: of a man seeking food in toy shops and tool shops. Instinctively, unconsciously,
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 1: with every book, with every conversation, with every man he met,
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 1: he was on the lookout for light on these questions
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 1: and their solution. What puzzled and distracted him above everything
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 1: was that the majority of men of his age and
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 1: circle had, like him, exchanged their old beliefs for the
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 1: same new convictions, and yet saw nothing to lament in this,
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 1: and were perfectly satisfied and serene, So that, apart from
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 1: the principal question, Levin was tortured by other questions too.
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 1: Were these people sincere, he asked himself, or were they
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 1: playing a part? Or was it that they understood the
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 1: ANSWER's science gave to these problems in some different, clearer
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 1: sense than he did. And he assiduously studied both these
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 1: men's opinions and the books which treated of these scientific explanations.
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 1: One fact he had found out since these questions had
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 1: engrossed his mind was that he had been quite wrong
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 1: in supposing from the recollections of the circle of his
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 1: young days at college, that religion had outlived its day,
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 1: and that it was now practically non existent. All the
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 1: people nearest to him, who were good in their lives
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 1: were believers. The old Prince and levof whom he liked
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 1: so much, and Sergey Ivanofitch, and all the women believed,
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 1: and his wife believed as simply as he had believed
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 1: in his earliest childhood. And ninety nine hundreds of the
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 1: Russian people, all the working people for whose life he
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 1: felt the deepest respect, believed. Another fact of which he
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 1: became convinced after reading many scientific books, was that the
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 1: men who shared his views had no other construction to
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 1: put on them, and that they gave no explanation of
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 1: the questions which he felt he could not live without answering,
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 1: but simply ignored their existence and attempted to explain other
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 1: questions of no possible interest to him, such as the
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 1: evolution of organisms, the materialistic theory of consciousness, and so forth. Moreover,
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: during his wife's confinement, something had happened that seemed extraordinary
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 1: to him. He, an unbeliever, had fallen into praying, and
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 1: at the moment he prayed he believed, but that moment
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 1: had passed, and he could not make his state of
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 1: mind at that moment fit into the rest of his life.
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 1: He could not admit that at that moment he knew
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 1: the truth and that now he was wrong, for as
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 1: soon as he began thinking calmly about it, it all
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 1: fell to pieces. He could not admit that he was
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 1: mistaken then, for his spiritual condition then was precious to him,
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 1: and to admit that it was a proof of weakness
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 1: would have been to desecrate those moments. He was miserably
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 1: divided against himself and strained all his spiritual forces to
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 1: the utmost to escape from this condition. Chapter nine. These
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 1: doubts fretted and harassed him, growing weaker or stronger from
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 1: time to time, but never leaving him. He read in thought,
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 1: and the more he read and the more he thought,
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 1: the further he felt from the aim he was pursuing.
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 1: Of late in Moscow and in the country, since he
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 1: had become convinced that he would find no solution in
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 1: the materialists, he had read and wearied thoroughly. Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Shelling, Hegel,
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 1: and Schopenhauer, the philosophers who gave a non materialistic explanation
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 1: of life. Their ideas seemed to him fruitful when he
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 1: was reading or was himself seeking arguments to refute other theories,
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 1: especially those of the materialists. But as soon as he
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 1: began to read or sought for himself a solution of problems,
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 1: the same thing always happened. As long as he followed
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 1: the fixed definition of obscure words such as spirit, will, freedom, essence,
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 1: purposely letting himself go into the snare of words the
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 1: philosophers set for him, he seemed to comprehend something. But
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 1: he had only to forget the artificial train of reasoning
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 1: and to turn from life itself to what had satisfied
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 1: him while thinking in accordance with the fixed definitions, and
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 1: all this artificial edifice fell to pieces at once, like
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 1: a house of cards, and it became clear that the
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 1: edifice had been built up out of those transposed words,
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 1: apart from anything in life more important than reason. At
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 1: one time, reading Schopenhauer, he put in place of his
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 1: will the word love, and for a couple of days
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 1: this new philosophy charmed him till he removed a little
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 1: away from it. But then when he turned from life itself.
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 1: To glance at it again, it fell away too and
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 1: proved to be the same muslin garment with no warmth
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 1: in it. His brother Sergey Ivanovitch advised him to read
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 1: the theological works of Homyakov. Levin read the second volume
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 1: of Homyakov's works, and, in spite of the elegant, epigrammatic
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 1: argumentative style which at first repelled him, he was impressed
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 1: by the doctrine of the Church he found in them.
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 1: He was struck at first by the idea that the
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 1: apprehension of divine truths had not been vouchsafed to man,
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 1: but to a corporation of men bound together by love,
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 1: to the Church. What delighted him was the thought how
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 1: much easier it was to believe in a still existing,
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 1: living Church, embracing all the beliefs of men, and having
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 1: God at its head and therefore wholly in infallible, and
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 1: from it to accept the faith in God in the Creation,
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 1: the Fall, the Redemption, then to begin with God, a mysterious,
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 1: far away God, the Creation, et cetera. But afterwards, on
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 1: reading it the Catholic writer's History of the Church, and
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 1: then a Greek Orthodox writer's History of the Church, and
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: seeing that the two churches, in their very conception infallible,
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 1: each deny the authority of the other, Homeakov's doctrine of
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 1: the church lost all its charm for him, and this
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 1: edifice crumbled into dust, like the philosopher's edifices all that spring,
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 1: he was not himself and went through fearful moments of
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 1: horror without knowing what I am and why I am here.
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 1: Life's impossible, and that I can't know, and so I
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 1: can't live, Levin said to himself, in infinite time, in
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 1: infinite matter, in infinite space is formed a bubble organism,
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 1: and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 1: bubble is me. It was an agonizing error, but it
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 1: was the sole logical result of ages of human thought
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 1: in that direction. This was the ultimate belief on which
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 1: all the systems elaborated by human thought, in almost all
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 1: their ramifications, rested. It was the prevalent conviction, and of
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 1: all other explanations left. Vin had, unconsciously, not knowing when
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 1: or how, chosen it as any way the clearest, and
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 1: made it his own. But it was not merely a falsehood.
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 1: It was the cruel jeer of some wicked power, some evil,
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 1: hateful power to whom one could not submit. He must
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 1: escape from this power, and the means of escape every
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 1: man had in his own hands. He had but to
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 1: cut short this dependence on evil, and there was one
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 1: means death. And Levin, a happy father and husband in
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 1: perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 1: hid the cord that he might not be tempted to
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 1: hang himself, and was afraid to go out with his
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 1: gun for fear of shooting himself. But Levin did not
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 1: shoot himself, and did not hang himself. He went on living.
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 1: Chapter ten. When Levin thought what he was and what
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 1: he was living for, he could find no answer to
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 1: the questions, and was reduced to despair. But he left
• 2:10:56
  Speaker 1: off questioning himself about it. It seemed as though he
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 1: knew both what he was and for what he was living.
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 1: For he acted and lived resolutely and without hesitation. Indeed,
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 1: in these latter days he was far more decided and
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 1: unhesitating in life than he had ever been. When he
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 1: went back to the country at the beginning of June.
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 1: He went back also to his usual pursuits, the management
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 1: of the estate, his relations with the peasants and the neighbors,
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 1: the care of his household, the management of his sisters
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 1: and brother's property, of which he had the direction, his
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 1: relations with his wife and kindred, the care of his child,
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 1: and the new bee keeping hobby he had taken up
• 2:11:34
  Speaker 1: that spring filled all his time. These things occupied him
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 1: now not because he justified them to himself by any
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 1: sort of general principles, as he had done in former days.
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 1: On the contrary, disappointed by the failure of his former
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 1: efforts for the general welfare, and too much occupied with
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 1: his own thought and the mass of business with which
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 1: he was burdened from all sides, he had completely given
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 1: up thinking of the general good, and he busied himself
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 1: with all this work simply because it seemed to him
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 1: that he must do what he was doing that he
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 1: could not do otherwise. In former days, almost from childhood
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 1: and increasingly up to full manhood, when he had tried
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 1: to do anything that would be good for all, for humanity,
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 1: for Russia, for the whole village, he had noticed that
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 1: the idea of it had been pleasant, but the work
• 2:12:21
  Speaker 1: itself had always been incoherent. That then he had never
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 1: had a full conviction of its absolute necessity, and that
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 1: the work that had begun by seeming so great, had
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 1: grown less and less till it vanished into nothing. But
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 1: now since his marriage, when he had begun to confine
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 1: himself more and more to living for himself, though he
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 1: experienced no delight at all at the thought of the
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 1: work he was doing, he felt a complete conviction of
• 2:12:46
  Speaker 1: its necessity, saw that it succeeded far better than in
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 1: old days, and that it kept on growing more and more.
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 1: Now involuntarily, it seemed, he cut more and more deeply
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 1: into the soil like a plow, so that he could
• 2:12:59
  Speaker 1: not be drawn out without turning aside the furrow. To
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 1: live the same family life as his father and forefathers,
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 1: that is, in the same condition of culture, and to
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 1: bring up his children in the same was incontestably necessary.
• 2:13:13
  Speaker 1: It was as necessary as dining when one was hungry,
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 1: And to do this, just as it was necessary to
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 1: cook dinner. It was necessary to keep the mechanism of
• 2:13:23
  Speaker 1: agriculture at Pokrovsko going so as to yield an income,
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 1: just as incontestably as it was necessary to repay a debt.
• 2:13:30
  Speaker 1: Was it necessary to keep the property in such a
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 1: condition that his son, when he received it as a heritage,
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 1: would say thank you to his father, as Levin had
• 2:13:39
  Speaker 1: said thank you to his grandfather for all he built
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 1: and planted. And to do this it was necessary to
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 1: look after the land himself, not to let it, and
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 1: to breed cattle, manure the fields, and plant timber. It
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 1: was impossible not to look after the affairs of Sergey Ivanofitch,
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 1: of his sister, of the peasants, who came to him
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 1: for advice, and were accustomed to do so, as impossible
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 1: as to fling down a child one is carrying in
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 1: one's arms. It was necessary to look after the comfort
• 2:14:08
  Speaker 1: of his sister in law and her children, and of
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 1: his wife and baby, and it was impossible not to
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 1: spend with them at least a short time each day.
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 1: And all this, together with shooting in his new bee keeping,
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 1: filled up the whole of Levin's life, which had no
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 1: meaning at all for him when he began to think.
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 1: But besides knowing thoroughly what he had to do, Levin
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 1: knew in just the same way how he had to
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 1: do it all. And what was more important than the rest.
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 1: He knew he must hire labors as cheaply as possible,
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 1: But to hire men under bond, paying them in advance
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 1: at less than the current rate of wages was what
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 1: he must not do, even though it was very profitable.
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 1: Selling straw to the peasants in times of scarcity of
• 2:14:49
  Speaker 1: provender was what he might do, even though he felt
• 2:14:52
  Speaker 1: sorry for them. But the tavern and the pothouse must
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 1: be put down, though they were a source of income.
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 1: Felling timber must be punished as severely as possible, but
• 2:15:01
  Speaker 1: he could not exact forfeits for cattle being driven on
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 1: to his fields. And though it annoyed the keeper and
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 1: made the peasants not afraid to graze their cattle on
• 2:15:09
  Speaker 1: his land, he could not keep their cattle. As a
• 2:15:12
  Speaker 1: punishment to Pyotur, who was paying a money lender ten
• 2:15:16
  Speaker 1: percent a month, he must lend a sum of money
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 1: to set him free. But he could not let off
• 2:15:22
  Speaker 1: peasants who did not pay their rent, nor let them
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 1: fall into arrears. It was impossible to overlook the bailiffs
• 2:15:29
  Speaker 1: not having mowed the meadows and letting the hay spoil.
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 1: And it was equally impossible to mow those acres where
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 1: a young copse had been planted. It was impossible to
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 1: excuse a laborer who had gone home in the busy
• 2:15:41
  Speaker 1: season because his father was dying. However sorry he might
• 2:15:44
  Speaker 1: feel for him, and he must subtract from his pay
• 2:15:47
  Speaker 1: those costly months of idleness. But it was impossible not
• 2:15:51
  Speaker 1: to allow monthly rations to the old servants, who were
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 1: of no use for anything. Levin knew that when he
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 1: got home he must first of all go to his wife,
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 1: who was unwell, and that the peasants who had been
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 1: waiting for three hours to see him could wait a
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 1: little longer. He knew too, that, regardless of all the
• 2:16:08
  Speaker 1: pleasure he felt in taking a swarm, he must forego
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 1: that pleasure and leave the old man to see to
• 2:16:13
  Speaker 1: the bees alone while he talked to the peasants who
• 2:16:16
  Speaker 1: had come after him to the bee house. Whether he
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 1: were acting rightly or wrongly, he did not know, and
• 2:16:22
  Speaker 1: far from trying to prove that he was nowadays he
• 2:16:25
  Speaker 1: avoided all thought or talk about it. Reasoning had brought
• 2:16:29
  Speaker 1: him to doubt and prevented him from seeing what he
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 1: ought to do and what he ought not. When he
• 2:16:34
  Speaker 1: did not think but simply lived, he was continually aware
• 2:16:37
  Speaker 1: of the presence of an infallible judge in his soul,
• 2:16:40
  Speaker 1: determining which of two possible courses of action was the
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 1: better and which was the worse. And as soon as
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 1: he did not act rightly, he was at once aware
• 2:16:48
  Speaker 1: of it. So he lived not knowing and not seeing
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 1: any chance of knowing what he was and what he
• 2:16:54
  Speaker 1: was living for, and harassed at this lack of knowledge
• 2:16:57
  Speaker 1: to such a point that he was afraid of suicide,
• 2:17:00
  Speaker 1: and yet firmly laying down his own individual, definite path
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 1: in Life, Chapter eleven. The day on which Sergey Ivanovitch
• 2:17:08
  Speaker 1: came to Pokrovskow was one of Levin's most painful days.
• 2:17:12
  Speaker 1: It was the very busiest working time, when all the
• 2:17:14
  Speaker 1: peasantry show an extraordinary intensity of self sacrifice in labor,
• 2:17:18
  Speaker 1: such as is never shown in any other conditions of life,
• 2:17:22
  Speaker 1: and would be highly esteemed if the men who showed
• 2:17:25
  Speaker 1: these qualities themselves thought highly of them, and if it
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 1: were not repeated every year, and if the results of
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 1: this intense labor were not so simple. To reap and
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 1: bind the rye and oats, and to carry it to
• 2:17:36
  Speaker 1: mow the meadows, turn over the fallows, thrash the seed,
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 1: and sow the winter corn. All this seemed so simple
• 2:17:42
  Speaker 1: and ordinary. But to succeed in getting through at all,
• 2:17:45
  Speaker 1: every one in the village, from the old man to
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 1: the young child, must toil incessantly for three or four weeks,
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 1: three times as hard as usual, living on rye, beer,
• 2:17:55
  Speaker 1: onions and black bread, thrashing and carrying the sheaves at night,
• 2:18:00
  Speaker 1: and not giving more than two or three hours in
• 2:18:02
  Speaker 1: the twenty four to sleep. And every year this is
• 2:18:05
  Speaker 1: done all over Russia. Having lived the greater part of
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 1: his life in the country and in the closest relations
• 2:18:11
  Speaker 1: with the peasants, Levin always felt in this busy time
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 1: that he was infected by this general quickening of energy
• 2:18:17
  Speaker 1: in the people. In the early morning, he rode over
• 2:18:20
  Speaker 1: to the first sowing of the rye and to the
• 2:18:23
  Speaker 1: oats which were being carried to the stacks, and returning
• 2:18:26
  Speaker 1: home at the time his wife and sister in law
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 1: were getting up. He drank coffee with them and walked
• 2:18:31
  Speaker 1: to the farm, where a new thrashing machine was to
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 1: be set working to get ready the seed corn. He
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 1: was standing in the cool granary, still fragrant with the
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 1: leaves of the hazel branches interlaced on the freshly peeled
• 2:18:43
  Speaker 1: aspen beams of the new thatched roof. He gazed through
• 2:18:46
  Speaker 1: the open door, in which the dry, bitter dust of
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 1: the thrashing world and plate at the grass of the
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 1: thrashing floor in the sunlight, and the fresh straw that
• 2:18:54
  Speaker 1: had been brought in from the barn. Then at the
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 1: speckley headed, white breasted swallows that flew chirping in under
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 1: the roof and fluttering their wings, settled in the crevices
• 2:19:04
  Speaker 1: of the doorway. Then at the peasants bustling in the dark,
• 2:19:07
  Speaker 1: dusty barn, And he thought strange thoughts. Why is it
• 2:19:11
  Speaker 1: all being done? He thought? Why am I standing here
• 2:19:15
  Speaker 1: making them work? What are they all so busy for
• 2:19:19
  Speaker 1: trying to show their zeal before me? What is that
• 2:19:22
  Speaker 1: old matrona, my old friend, toiling for I doctored her
• 2:19:27
  Speaker 1: when the beam fell on her in the fire, he thought,
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 1: looking at a thin old woman who was raking up
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 1: the grain, moving painfully with her bare, sun blackened feet
• 2:19:35
  Speaker 1: over the uneven rough floor. Then she recovered. But to
• 2:19:40
  Speaker 1: day or tomorrow, or in ten years, she won't. They'll
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 1: bury her, and nothing will be left either of her
• 2:19:45
  Speaker 1: or of that smart girl in the red jacket who
• 2:19:48
  Speaker 1: with that skillful, soft action shakes the ears out of
• 2:19:51
  Speaker 1: their husks. They'll bury her and this piebald horse, and
• 2:19:55
  Speaker 1: very soon too, he thought, gazing at the heavily moving,
• 2:19:59
  Speaker 1: panting horse that kept walking up the wheel that turned
• 2:20:02
  Speaker 1: under him, And they will bury her in Theodor, the thrasher,
• 2:20:05
  Speaker 1: with his curly beard full of chaff and his shirt
• 2:20:08
  Speaker 1: torn on his white shoulders, they will bury him. He's
• 2:20:12
  Speaker 1: untying the sheaves and giving orders and shouting to the women,
• 2:20:16
  Speaker 1: and quickly setting straight the strap on the moving wheel.
• 2:20:19
  Speaker 1: And what's more, it's not them alone me. They'll bury two,
• 2:20:23
  Speaker 1: and nothing will be left. What for? He thought this,
• 2:20:27
  Speaker 1: and at the same time looked at his watch to
• 2:20:29
  Speaker 1: reckon how much they thrashed in an hour. He wanted
• 2:20:33
  Speaker 1: to know this so as to judge by it the
• 2:20:35
  Speaker 1: task to set for the day. It'll soon be won,
• 2:20:38
  Speaker 1: and they're only beginning the third sheaf, thought Levin. He
• 2:20:42
  Speaker 1: went up to the man that was feeding the machine,
• 2:20:44
  Speaker 1: and shouting over the roar of the machine, he told
• 2:20:46
  Speaker 1: him to put it in more slowly. You put in
• 2:20:49
  Speaker 1: too much at a time, Fodor, do you see it
• 2:20:53
  Speaker 1: gets choked. That's why it isn't getting on do it evenly. Fiodor,
• 2:20:58
  Speaker 1: black with the dust that clung ung to his moist face,
• 2:21:01
  Speaker 1: shouted something in response, but still went on doing it,
• 2:21:04
  Speaker 1: as Levin did not want him to. Levin, going up
• 2:21:08
  Speaker 1: to the machine, moved Fyodor aside and began feeding the
• 2:21:11
  Speaker 1: corn in himself, working on till the peasant's dinner hour,
• 2:21:15
  Speaker 1: which was not long in coming. He went out of
• 2:21:18
  Speaker 1: the barn with Fyodor and fell into talk with him,
• 2:21:20
  Speaker 1: stopping beside a neat yellow sheaf of rye laid on
• 2:21:23
  Speaker 1: the thrashing floor for seed. Fyodor came from a village
• 2:21:27
  Speaker 1: at some distance from the one in which Levin had
• 2:21:29
  Speaker 1: once allotted land to his co operative association. Now it
• 2:21:33
  Speaker 1: had been led to a former house porter. Levin talked
• 2:21:37
  Speaker 1: to Fyodor about this land and asked whether Platon, a
• 2:21:40
  Speaker 1: well to do peasant of good character belonging to the
• 2:21:42
  Speaker 1: same village, would not take the land for the coming year.
• 2:21:46
  Speaker 1: It's a high rent it wouldn't pay Platon Konstantin Dmitrievitch
• 2:21:51
  Speaker 1: answered the peasant, picking the ears off his sweat drenched shirt.
• 2:21:55
  Speaker 1: But how does Kilov make it pay? Mitu? So the
• 2:21:59
  Speaker 1: peasant called the house porter in a tone of contempt.
• 2:22:03
  Speaker 1: You may be sure he'll make it pay. Konstantin Dmitrievitch.
• 2:22:07
  Speaker 1: He'll get his share, however he has to squeeze to
• 2:22:10
  Speaker 1: get it. He's no mercy on a Christian. But uncle Fokinitch,
• 2:22:15
  Speaker 1: so he called the old peasant Platon. Do you suppose
• 2:22:18
  Speaker 1: he'd flay the skin off a man where there's debt.
• 2:22:21
  Speaker 1: He'll let anyone off, and he'll not wring the last
• 2:22:24
  Speaker 1: penny out. He's a man too, But why will he
• 2:22:29
  Speaker 1: let anyone off? Oh? Well, of course folks are different.
• 2:22:34
  Speaker 1: One man lives for his own wants and nothing else.
• 2:22:37
  Speaker 1: Like Midu, he only thinks of filling his belly. But
• 2:22:40
  Speaker 1: Fokanitch is a righteous man. He lives for his soul.
• 2:22:45
  Speaker 1: He does not forget God. How thinks of God? How
• 2:22:49
  Speaker 1: does he live for his soul? Levin almost shouted, Why
• 2:22:54
  Speaker 1: to be sure? In truth? In God's way, folks are different.
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 1: You now you wouldn't wrong a man? Yes, yes, good bye,
• 2:23:04
  Speaker 1: said Levin, breathless with excitement, and turning round. He took
• 2:23:07
  Speaker 1: his stick and walked quickly away towards home. At the
• 2:23:11
  Speaker 1: peasant's words that Folkinitch lived for his soul in truth
• 2:23:15
  Speaker 1: in God's way. Undefined but significant ideas seemed to burst out,
• 2:23:19
  Speaker 1: as though they had been locked up, and all striving
• 2:23:21
  Speaker 1: towards one goal. They thronged, whirling through his head, blinding
• 2:23:25
  Speaker 1: him with their light. Chapter twelve, Leven strode along the
• 2:23:29
  Speaker 1: high road, absorbed not so much in his thoughts, he
• 2:23:32
  Speaker 1: could not yet disentangle them, as in his spiritual condition.
• 2:23:35
  Speaker 1: Unlike anything he had experienced before, the words uttered by
• 2:23:40
  Speaker 1: the peasant had acted on his soul like an electric shock,
• 2:23:43
  Speaker 1: suddenly transforming and combining into a single hole the whole
• 2:23:46
  Speaker 1: swarm of disjointed, impotent, separate thoughts that incessantly occupied his mind.
• 2:23:51
  Speaker 1: These thoughts had unconsciously been in his mind even when
• 2:23:54
  Speaker 1: he was talking about the land. He was aware of
• 2:23:58
  Speaker 1: something new in his soul, and joyfully tested this new thing,
• 2:24:02
  Speaker 1: not yet knowing what it was. Not living for his
• 2:24:05
  Speaker 1: own wants, but for God. For what God? And could
• 2:24:09
  Speaker 1: one say anything more senseless than what he said? He
• 2:24:13
  Speaker 1: said that one must not live for one's own wants,
• 2:24:16
  Speaker 1: That is, that one must not live for what we understand,
• 2:24:19
  Speaker 1: what we are attracted by, what we desire, but must
• 2:24:22
  Speaker 1: live for something incomprehensible, for God, whom no one can
• 2:24:26
  Speaker 1: understand nor even define what of it? Didn't I understand
• 2:24:31
  Speaker 1: those senseless words of Feodor's and understanding them, did I
• 2:24:35
  Speaker 1: doubt of their truth? Did I think them stupid, obscure, inexact? No?
• 2:24:41
  Speaker 1: I understood him, and exactly as he understands the words.
• 2:24:46
  Speaker 1: I understood them more fully and clearly than I understand
• 2:24:49
  Speaker 1: anything in life. And never in my life have I doubted,
• 2:24:52
  Speaker 1: nor can I doubt about it. And not only I,
• 2:24:55
  Speaker 1: but every one the whole world understands nothing fully but this,
• 2:24:59
  Speaker 1: and about this only they have no doubt and are
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  Speaker 1: always agreed. And I looked out for miracles, complained that
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  Speaker 1: I did not see a miracle which would convince me.
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  Speaker 1: A material miracle would have persuaded me. And here is
• 2:25:13
  Speaker 1: a miracle, the sole miracle possible, continually existing surrounding me
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  Speaker 1: on all sides, and I never noticed it. Theodor says
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  Speaker 1: that Kilov lives for his belly. That's comprehensible and rational.
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  Speaker 1: All of us, as rational beings, can't do anything else
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  Speaker 1: but live for our belly, And all of a sudden,
• 2:25:34
  Speaker 1: the same Theodor says that one mustn't live for one's belly,
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  Speaker 1: but must live for truth for God, and that a
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  Speaker 1: hint I understand him, and I in millions of men,
• 2:25:44
  Speaker 1: men who lived ages ago, and men living now, peasants,
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  Speaker 1: the poor in spirit, and the learned, who have thought
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  Speaker 1: and written about it in their obscure words, saying the
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 1: same thing. We are all agreed about this one thing,
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  Speaker 1: what we must live for, and what is good? I
• 2:25:59
  Speaker 1: and all men have only one firm, incontestable, clear knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: And that knowledge cannot be explained by the reason. It
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  Speaker 1: is outside it and has no causes and can have
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  Speaker 1: no effects. If goodness has causes, it is not goodness.
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  Speaker 1: If it has effects or reward, it is not goodness either.
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  Speaker 1: So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.
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  Speaker 1: And yet I know it, and we all know it.
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  Speaker 1: What could be a greater miracle than that? Can I
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 1: have found the solution of it? All? Can my sufferings
• 2:26:31
  Speaker 1: be over? Thought? Levin striding along the dusty road, not
• 2:26:35
  Speaker 1: noticing the heat nor his weariness, and experiencing a sense
• 2:26:39
  Speaker 1: of relief from prolonged suffering. This feeling was so delicious
• 2:26:43
  Speaker 1: that it seemed to him incredible. He was breathless with
• 2:26:47
  Speaker 1: emotion and incapable of going farther, He turned off the
• 2:26:50
  Speaker 1: road into the forest and lay down in the shade
• 2:26:52
  Speaker 1: of an aspen on the uncut grass. He took his
• 2:26:55
  Speaker 1: hat off his hot head and lay propped on his
• 2:26:58
  Speaker 1: elbow in the lush, feathery woodland grass. Yes, I must
• 2:27:03
  Speaker 1: make it clear to myself and understand, he thought, looking
• 2:27:06
  Speaker 1: intently at the untrampled grass before him, and following the
• 2:27:09
  Speaker 1: movements of a green beetle advancing along a blade of
• 2:27:12
  Speaker 1: couch grass and lifting up in its progress a leaf
• 2:27:15
  Speaker 1: of goatweed. What have I discovered, he asked himself, bending
• 2:27:20
  Speaker 1: aside the leaf of goatweat out of the beetle's way
• 2:27:23
  Speaker 1: and twisting another blade of grass above for the beetle
• 2:27:25
  Speaker 1: to cross over on to it. What is it makes
• 2:27:28
  Speaker 1: me glad? What have I discovered? I have discovered nothing.
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  Speaker 1: I have only found out what I knew. I understand
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  Speaker 1: the force that in the past gave me life, and
• 2:27:40
  Speaker 1: now too gives me life. I have been set free
• 2:27:43
  Speaker 1: from falsity. I have found the master of old. I
• 2:27:47
  Speaker 1: used to say that in my body, that in the
• 2:27:49
  Speaker 1: body of this grass and of this beetle there she
• 2:27:52
  Speaker 1: didn't care for the grass. She's opened her wings and
• 2:27:55
  Speaker 1: flown away. There was going on a transformation of matter
• 2:27:58
  Speaker 1: in accordance with physical chemist and physiological laws. And in
• 2:28:03
  Speaker 1: all of us, as well as in the aspens and
• 2:28:05
  Speaker 1: the clouds and the misty patches, there was a process
• 2:28:08
  Speaker 1: of evolution, evolution from what into what, eternal evolution and struggle,
• 2:28:15
  Speaker 1: as though there could be any sort of tendency and
• 2:28:18
  Speaker 1: struggle in the eternal. And I was astonished that, in
• 2:28:22
  Speaker 1: spite of the utmost effort of thought along that road,
• 2:28:24
  Speaker 1: I could not discover the meaning of life, the meaning
• 2:28:27
  Speaker 1: of my impulses and yearnings. Now I say that I
• 2:28:30
  Speaker 1: know the meaning of my life, to live for God,
• 2:28:33
  Speaker 1: for my soul. And this meaning, in spite of its clearness,
• 2:28:37
  Speaker 1: is mysterious and marvelous. Such indeed, is the meaning of
• 2:28:42
  Speaker 1: everything existing. Yes, pride, he said to himself, turning over
• 2:28:47
  Speaker 1: on his stomach and beginning to tie a noose of
• 2:28:49
  Speaker 1: blades of grass, trying not to break them. And not
• 2:28:53
  Speaker 1: merely pride of intellect, but dullness of intellect, and most
• 2:28:57
  Speaker 1: of all, the deceitfulness, Yes, the deceitfulness of intellect, the cheating,
• 2:29:03
  Speaker 1: knavishness of intellect. That's it, he said to himself, and
• 2:29:07
  Speaker 1: he briefly went through mentally the whole course of his
• 2:29:10
  Speaker 1: ideas during the last two years, the beginning of which
• 2:29:13
  Speaker 1: was the clear confronting of death at the sight of
• 2:29:16
  Speaker 1: his dear brother hopelessly ill. Then for the first time,
• 2:29:20
  Speaker 1: grasping that for every man, and himself too, there was
• 2:29:23
  Speaker 1: nothing in store but suffering death and forgetfulness, he had
• 2:29:27
  Speaker 1: made up his mind that life was impossible like that,
• 2:29:30
  Speaker 1: and that he must either interpret life so that it
• 2:29:32
  Speaker 1: would not present itself to him as the evil jest
• 2:29:35
  Speaker 1: of some devil, or shoot himself. But he had not
• 2:29:39
  Speaker 1: done either, but had gone on living, thinking and feeling,
• 2:29:42
  Speaker 1: and had even at that very time married, and had
• 2:29:45
  Speaker 1: had many joys, and had been happy when he was
• 2:29:47
  Speaker 1: not thinking of the meaning of his life. What did
• 2:29:50
  Speaker 1: this mean? It meant that he had been living rightly
• 2:29:54
  Speaker 1: but thinking wrongly. He had lived without being aware of it,
• 2:29:58
  Speaker 1: on those spiritual truth youths that he had sucked in
• 2:30:01
  Speaker 1: with his mother's milk. But he had thought not merely
• 2:30:04
  Speaker 1: without recognition of these truths, but studiously ignoring them. Now
• 2:30:09
  Speaker 1: it was clear to him that he could only live
• 2:30:11
  Speaker 1: by virtue of the beliefs in which he had been
• 2:30:13
  Speaker 1: brought up What should I have been and how should
• 2:30:16
  Speaker 1: I have spent my life? If I had not had
• 2:30:19
  Speaker 1: these beliefs, if I had not known that I must
• 2:30:21
  Speaker 1: live for God and not for my own desires, I
• 2:30:25
  Speaker 1: should have robbed and lied and killed. Nothing of what
• 2:30:28
  Speaker 1: makes the chief happiness of my life would have existed
• 2:30:31
  Speaker 1: for me. And with the utmost stretch of imagination, he
• 2:30:34
  Speaker 1: could not conceive the brutal creature he would have been
• 2:30:37
  Speaker 1: himself if he had not known what he was living for.
• 2:30:40
  Speaker 1: I looked for an answer to my question, and thought
• 2:30:44
  Speaker 1: could not give an answer to my question. It is
• 2:30:46
  Speaker 1: incommensurable with my question. The answer has been given me
• 2:30:50
  Speaker 1: by life itself, in my knowledge of what is right
• 2:30:53
  Speaker 1: and what is wrong. And that knowledge I did not
• 2:30:56
  Speaker 1: arrive at in any way. It was given to me,
• 2:30:59
  Speaker 1: as to all men, given because I could not have
• 2:31:01
  Speaker 1: got it from anywhere where. Could I have got it
• 2:31:05
  Speaker 1: by reason? Could I have arrived at knowing that I
• 2:31:07
  Speaker 1: must love my neighbor and not oppress him. I was
• 2:31:11
  Speaker 1: told that in my childhood, and I believed it gladly,
• 2:31:14
  Speaker 1: for they told me what was already in my soul.
• 2:31:17
  Speaker 1: But who discovered it? Not reason? Reason, discovered the struggle
• 2:31:22
  Speaker 1: for existence, and the law that requires us to oppress
• 2:31:25
  Speaker 1: all who hinder the satisfaction of our desires. That is
• 2:31:29
  Speaker 1: the deduction of reason. But loving one's neighbor reason could
• 2:31:33
  Speaker 1: never discover because its irrational. Chapter thirteen and eleven remembered
• 2:31:37
  Speaker 1: a scene he had lately witnessed between Dolly and her children.
• 2:31:41
  Speaker 1: The children, left to themselves, had begun cooking raspberries over
• 2:31:45
  Speaker 1: the candles and squirting milk into each other's mouths with
• 2:31:48
  Speaker 1: a syringe. Their mother, catching them at these pranks, began
• 2:31:53
  Speaker 1: reminding them, in Levin's presence, of the trouble their mischief
• 2:31:56
  Speaker 1: gave to the grown up people, and that this trouble
• 2:31:58
  Speaker 1: was all for their sake, and that if they smashed
• 2:32:00
  Speaker 1: the cups they would have nothing to drink their tea
• 2:32:03
  Speaker 1: out of, and that if they wasted the milk, they
• 2:32:05
  Speaker 1: would have nothing to eat and die of hunger. And
• 2:32:10
  Speaker 1: Levin had been struck by the passive, weary incredulity with
• 2:32:13
  Speaker 1: which the children heard what their mother said to them.
• 2:32:16
  Speaker 1: They were simply annoyed that their amusing play had been interrupted,
• 2:32:20
  Speaker 1: and did not believe a word of what their mother
• 2:32:22
  Speaker 1: was saying. They could not believe it, indeed, for they
• 2:32:25
  Speaker 1: could not take in the immensity of all they habitually enjoyed,
• 2:32:28
  Speaker 1: and so could not conceive that what they were destroying
• 2:32:31
  Speaker 1: was the very thing they lived by. That all comes
• 2:32:34
  Speaker 1: of itself, they thought, And there's nothing interesting or important
• 2:32:38
  Speaker 1: about it, because it has always been so, and always
• 2:32:41
  Speaker 1: will be so, and it's all always the same. We've
• 2:32:45
  Speaker 1: no need to think about that, it's already. But we
• 2:32:49
  Speaker 1: want to invent something of our own and new. So
• 2:32:53
  Speaker 1: we thought of putting raspberries in a cup and cooking
• 2:32:55
  Speaker 1: them over a candle, and squirting milk straight into each
• 2:32:58
  Speaker 1: other's mouths. That's fun and something new, and not a
• 2:33:02
  Speaker 1: bit worse than drinking out of cups. Isn't it just
• 2:33:06
  Speaker 1: the same that we do? That I did, searching by
• 2:33:09
  Speaker 1: the aid of reason for the significance of the forces
• 2:33:12
  Speaker 1: of nature and the meaning of the life of man,
• 2:33:14
  Speaker 1: He thought, And don't all the theories of philosophy do
• 2:33:18
  Speaker 1: the same, trying by the path of thought, which is
• 2:33:20
  Speaker 1: strange and not natural to man to bring him to
• 2:33:23
  Speaker 1: a knowledge of what he has known long ago, and
• 2:33:26
  Speaker 1: knows so certainly that he could not live at all
• 2:33:28
  Speaker 1: without it. Isn't it distinctly to be seen in the
• 2:33:31
  Speaker 1: development of each philosopher's theory, that he knows what is
• 2:33:34
  Speaker 1: the chief significance of life beforehand, just as positively as
• 2:33:38
  Speaker 1: the peasant feodor, and not a bit more clearly than he,
• 2:33:41
  Speaker 1: and is simply trying by a dubious intellectual path to
• 2:33:44
  Speaker 1: come back to what every one knows. Now, then leave
• 2:33:48
  Speaker 1: the children to themselves to get things alone, and make
• 2:33:51
  Speaker 1: their crockery, get the milk from the cows, and so on.
• 2:33:55
  Speaker 1: Would they be naughty, then, why they die of hunger? Well?
• 2:34:00
  Speaker 1: Then leave us with our passions and thoughts, without any
• 2:34:04
  Speaker 1: idea of the One God of the Creator, or without
• 2:34:07
  Speaker 1: any idea of what is right, without any idea of
• 2:34:10
  Speaker 1: moral evil. Just try and build up anything without those ideas.
• 2:34:15
  Speaker 1: We only try to destroy them because we're spiritually provided
• 2:34:19
  Speaker 1: for exactly like the children. Whence have I that joyful
• 2:34:24
  Speaker 1: knowledge shared with the peasant, that alone gives peace to
• 2:34:27
  Speaker 1: my soul? Whence did I get it brought up with
• 2:34:31
  Speaker 1: an idea of God, a Christian My whole life filled
• 2:34:34
  Speaker 1: with the spiritual blessings Christianity has given me full of them,
• 2:34:38
  Speaker 1: and living on those blessings like the children, I did
• 2:34:40
  Speaker 1: not understand them and destroy, that is, try to destroy
• 2:34:44
  Speaker 1: what I live by. And as soon as an important
• 2:34:47
  Speaker 1: moment of life comes, like the children when they are
• 2:34:50
  Speaker 1: cold and hungry, I turn to him. And even less
• 2:34:53
  Speaker 1: than the children when their mother scolds them for their
• 2:34:55
  Speaker 1: childish mischief? Do I feel that my childish efforts at
• 2:34:58
  Speaker 1: wanton madness are reckoned against me? Me? Yes, what I
• 2:35:02
  Speaker 1: know I know not by reason, but it has been
• 2:35:04
  Speaker 1: given to me, revealed to me, and I know it
• 2:35:07
  Speaker 1: with my heart by faith in the chief thing taught
• 2:35:10
  Speaker 1: by the Church, the Church, the Church, Levin repeated to himself.
• 2:35:16
  Speaker 1: He turned over on the other side, and leaning on
• 2:35:19
  Speaker 1: his elbow, fell to gazing into the distance at a
• 2:35:21
  Speaker 1: herd of cattle crossing over to the river. But can
• 2:35:25
  Speaker 1: I believe in all the church teaches? He thought, trying
• 2:35:28
  Speaker 1: himself and thinking of everything that could destroy his present
• 2:35:31
  Speaker 1: peace of mind. Intentionally, he recalled all those doctrines of
• 2:35:35
  Speaker 1: the Church which had always seemed most strange and had
• 2:35:38
  Speaker 1: always been a stumbling block to him. The creation. But
• 2:35:42
  Speaker 1: how did I explain existence? By existence? By nothing? The
• 2:35:48
  Speaker 1: devil and sin? But how do I explain evil? The atonement?
• 2:35:54
  Speaker 1: But I know nothing, nothing, and I can know nothing
• 2:35:57
  Speaker 1: but what has been told to me in all men.
• 2:36:00
  Speaker 1: And it seemed to him that there was not a
• 2:36:01
  Speaker 1: single article of faith of the Church which could destroy
• 2:36:04
  Speaker 1: the chief thing, faith in God, in goodness, as the
• 2:36:07
  Speaker 1: one goal of man's destiny. Under every article of faith
• 2:36:12
  Speaker 1: of the Church could be put the faith in the
• 2:36:14
  Speaker 1: service of truth instead of one's desires. And each doctrine
• 2:36:18
  Speaker 1: did not simply leave that faith unshaken. Each doctrine seemed
• 2:36:21
  Speaker 1: essential to complete that great miracle continually manifest upon earth,
• 2:36:26
  Speaker 1: that made it possible for each man, and millions of
• 2:36:28
  Speaker 1: different sorts of men, wise men and imbeciles, old men
• 2:36:33
  Speaker 1: and children, all men, peasants, wolvoff, kitty, beggars and kings,
• 2:36:38
  Speaker 1: to understand perfectly the same one thing, and to build
• 2:36:41
  Speaker 1: up thereby that life of the soul, which alone is
• 2:36:43
  Speaker 1: worth living, and which alone is precious to us. Lying
• 2:36:48
  Speaker 1: on his back, he gazed up now into the high,
• 2:36:51
  Speaker 1: cloudless sky. Do I not know that that is infinite space?
• 2:36:55
  Speaker 1: And that it is not a round arch? But however
• 2:36:58
  Speaker 1: I screw up my eyes and strain my sight, I
• 2:37:01
  Speaker 1: cannot see it, not round and not bound it. And
• 2:37:03
  Speaker 1: in spite of my knowing about infinite space. I am
• 2:37:06
  Speaker 1: incontestably right when I see a solid blue dome, and
• 2:37:09
  Speaker 1: more right than when I strained my eyes to see
• 2:37:11
  Speaker 1: beyond it. Levin ceased thinking, and only as it were,
• 2:37:16
  Speaker 1: listened to mysterious voices that seemed talking joyfully and earnestly
• 2:37:20
  Speaker 1: within him. Can this be faith? He thought, afraid to
• 2:37:24
  Speaker 1: believe in his happiness. My God, I thank THEE, he said,
• 2:37:29
  Speaker 1: gulping down his sobs, and with both hands brushing away
• 2:37:32
  Speaker 1: the tears that filled his eyes. Chapter fourteen. Levin looked
• 2:37:36
  Speaker 1: before him and saw a herd of cattle. Then he
• 2:37:38
  Speaker 1: caught sight of his trap with raven and the shafts,
• 2:37:41
  Speaker 1: and the coachman, driving up to the herd, said something
• 2:37:44
  Speaker 1: to the herdsman. Then he heard the rattle of the
• 2:37:47
  Speaker 1: wheels and the snort of the sleek horse close by him.
• 2:37:51
  Speaker 1: But he was so buried in his thoughts that he
• 2:37:53
  Speaker 1: did not even wonder why the coachman had come for him.
• 2:37:57
  Speaker 1: He only thought of that when the coachman had driven
• 2:37:59
  Speaker 1: quite up to him and shouted to him, the mistress
• 2:38:02
  Speaker 1: sent me, your brother has come, and some gentleman with him.
• 2:38:06
  Speaker 1: Levin got into the trap and took the reins as
• 2:38:10
  Speaker 1: though just roused out of sleep. For long while Levin
• 2:38:13
  Speaker 1: could not collect his faculties. He stared at the sleek horse,
• 2:38:17
  Speaker 1: flecked with lather between his haunches and on his neck
• 2:38:20
  Speaker 1: where the harness rubbed. Stared at Ivan, the coachman sitting
• 2:38:23
  Speaker 1: beside him, and remembered that he was expecting his brother,
• 2:38:27
  Speaker 1: thought that his wife was most likely uneasy at his
• 2:38:30
  Speaker 1: long absence, and tried to guess who was the visitor
• 2:38:32
  Speaker 1: who had come with his brother. And his brother and
• 2:38:35
  Speaker 1: his wife and the unknown guest seemed to him now
• 2:38:38
  Speaker 1: quite different from before. He fancied that now his relations
• 2:38:42
  Speaker 1: with all men would be different. With my brother, there
• 2:38:45
  Speaker 1: will be none of that aloofness there always used to
• 2:38:48
  Speaker 1: be between us. There will be no disputes with Kitty.
• 2:38:51
  Speaker 1: There shall never be quarrels with the visitor, whoever he
• 2:38:54
  Speaker 1: may be. I will be friendly and nice with the servants.
• 2:38:57
  Speaker 1: With Ivan, it will all be different. Pulling the stiff
• 2:39:01
  Speaker 1: rein and holding in the good horse that snorted with
• 2:39:03
  Speaker 1: impatience and seemed begging to be let go, Levin looked
• 2:39:06
  Speaker 1: round at Ivan sitting beside him, not knowing what to
• 2:39:09
  Speaker 1: do with his unoccupied hand continually pressing down his shirt
• 2:39:13
  Speaker 1: as it puffed out, and he tried to find something
• 2:39:15
  Speaker 1: to start a conversation about with him. He would have
• 2:39:18
  Speaker 1: said that Ivan had pulled the saddle girth up too high,
• 2:39:21
  Speaker 1: but that was like blame, and he longed for friendly,
• 2:39:24
  Speaker 1: warm talk. Nothing else occurred to him. Your honor must
• 2:39:29
  Speaker 1: keep to the right and mind that stump, said the
• 2:39:31
  Speaker 1: coachman pulling the rain Levin held. Please don't touch, and
• 2:39:35
  Speaker 1: don't teach me, said Levin, angered by this interference. Now,
• 2:39:41
  Speaker 1: as always, interference made him angry, and he felt sorrowfully
• 2:39:45
  Speaker 1: at once. How mistaken had been his supposition that his
• 2:39:48
  Speaker 1: spiritual condition could immediately change him in contact with reality.
• 2:39:52
  Speaker 1: He was not a quarter of a mile from home
• 2:39:54
  Speaker 1: when he saw Grisha and Tania running to meet him.
• 2:39:58
  Speaker 1: Uncle Kostia Mamma's coming, and grandfather and Sergey Ivanovitch and
• 2:40:04
  Speaker 1: some one else, They said, clambering up into the trap.
• 2:40:08
  Speaker 1: Who is he an awfully terrible person? And he does
• 2:40:13
  Speaker 1: like this with his arms, said Tanya, getting up in
• 2:40:16
  Speaker 1: the trap and mimicking Katavasov old or young, asked Levin, laughing,
• 2:40:22
  Speaker 1: reminded of some one he did not know whom by
• 2:40:25
  Speaker 1: Tanya's performance. Oh I hope it's not a tiresome person,
• 2:40:29
  Speaker 1: thought Levin. As soon as he turned at a bend
• 2:40:33
  Speaker 1: in the road and saw the party coming, Levin recognized
• 2:40:36
  Speaker 1: Katavasov in a straw hat, walking along swinging his arms,
• 2:40:40
  Speaker 1: just as Tanya had shown him. Katavasov was very fond
• 2:40:44
  Speaker 1: of discussing metaphysics, having derived his notions from natural science
• 2:40:48
  Speaker 1: writers who had never studied metaphysics, and in Moscow Levin
• 2:40:51
  Speaker 1: had had many arguments with him of late, and one
• 2:40:55
  Speaker 1: of these arguments, in which Katavasov had obviously considered that
• 2:40:58
  Speaker 1: he came off Victoria was the first thing Levin thought
• 2:41:01
  Speaker 1: of as he recognized him. No, whatever I do, I
• 2:41:06
  Speaker 1: won't argue and give utterance to my ideas lightly, he thought.
• 2:41:10
  Speaker 1: Getting out of the trap and greeting his brother in Katavasov,
• 2:41:13
  Speaker 1: Levin asked about his wife. She has taken Mitya to Kolak,
• 2:41:18
  Speaker 1: a copse near the house. She meant to have him
• 2:41:21
  Speaker 1: out there because it's so hot indoors, said Dolly. Levin
• 2:41:25
  Speaker 1: had always advised his wife not to take the baby
• 2:41:28
  Speaker 1: to the wood, thinking it unsafe, and he was not
• 2:41:31
  Speaker 1: pleased to hear this. She rushes about from place to
• 2:41:34
  Speaker 1: place with him, said the Prince, smiling. I advised her
• 2:41:39
  Speaker 1: to try putting him in the ice cellar. She meant
• 2:41:42
  Speaker 1: to come to the bee house. She thought you would
• 2:41:45
  Speaker 1: be there. We are going there, said Dolly. Well, and
• 2:41:49
  Speaker 1: what are you doing, said Sergey Ivanovitch, falling back from
• 2:41:53
  Speaker 1: the rest and walking beside him. Oh, nothing special, busy
• 2:41:58
  Speaker 1: as usual with the land, answered Levin. Well, and what
• 2:42:02
  Speaker 1: about you? Come for long? We have been expecting you
• 2:42:07
  Speaker 1: for such a long time, Only for a fortnight. I've
• 2:42:11
  Speaker 1: a great deal to do in Moscow. At these words,
• 2:42:15
  Speaker 1: the brother's eyes met, and Levin, in spite of the
• 2:42:18
  Speaker 1: desire he always had stronger than ever just now to
• 2:42:21
  Speaker 1: be unaffectionate and still more open terms with his brother,
• 2:42:24
  Speaker 1: felt an awkwardness in looking at him. He dropped his
• 2:42:28
  Speaker 1: eyes and did not know what to say. Casting over
• 2:42:31
  Speaker 1: the subjects of conversation that would be pleasant to Sergey
• 2:42:34
  Speaker 1: Ivanovitch and would keep him off the subject of the
• 2:42:37
  Speaker 1: Servian War and the Slavonic question at which he had
• 2:42:40
  Speaker 1: hinted by the allusion to what he had to do
• 2:42:42
  Speaker 1: in Moscow, Levin began to talk of Sergey Ivanovitch's book. Well,
• 2:42:47
  Speaker 1: have there been reviews of your book? He asked? Sergey
• 2:42:51
  Speaker 1: Ivanovitch smiled at the intentional character of the question. No
• 2:42:55
  Speaker 1: one is interested in that now, and I less than
• 2:42:58
  Speaker 1: any one, he said. Just look, Darya, Alexandrovna. We shall
• 2:43:03
  Speaker 1: have a shower, he added, pointing with a sunshade at
• 2:43:06
  Speaker 1: the white rain clouds that showed above the aspen tree tops.
• 2:43:10
  Speaker 1: And these words were enough to re establish again between
• 2:43:13
  Speaker 1: the brothers that tone hardly hostile but chilly, which Levin
• 2:43:17
  Speaker 1: had been so longing to avoid. Levin went up to Katavasov.
• 2:43:22
  Speaker 1: It was jolly of you to make up your mind
• 2:43:24
  Speaker 1: to come, he said to him. I've been meaning to
• 2:43:27
  Speaker 1: a long while. Now we shall have some discussion. We'll
• 2:43:31
  Speaker 1: see to that. Have you been reading Spencer? No, I've
• 2:43:36
  Speaker 1: not finished reading him, said Levin. But I don't need
• 2:43:39
  Speaker 1: him now. How's that that's interesting? Why so? I mean
• 2:43:46
  Speaker 1: that I'm fully convinced that the solution of the problems
• 2:43:49
  Speaker 1: that interest me I shall never find in him and
• 2:43:51
  Speaker 1: his like Now, But Katavasov's serene and good humored expression
• 2:43:57
  Speaker 1: suddenly struck him, and he felt such tenderness for his
• 2:43:59
  Speaker 1: own unhappy mood, which he was unmistakably disturbing by this
• 2:44:03
  Speaker 1: conversation that he remembered his resolution and stopped short. But
• 2:44:07
  Speaker 1: we'll talk later on, he added. If we're going to
• 2:44:11
  Speaker 1: the bee house, it's this way, along this little path,
• 2:44:14
  Speaker 1: he said, addressing them all, going along the narrow path
• 2:44:18
  Speaker 1: to a little uncut meadow, covered on one side with
• 2:44:21
  Speaker 1: thick clumps of brilliant heart seas, among which stood up
• 2:44:24
  Speaker 1: here and their tall, dark green tufts of hellebor Levin
• 2:44:27
  Speaker 1: settled his guests in the dense cool shade of the
• 2:44:30
  Speaker 1: young aspens on a bench and some stumps, purposely put
• 2:44:33
  Speaker 1: there for visitors to the bee house who might be
• 2:44:36
  Speaker 1: afraid of the bees, and he went off himself to
• 2:44:38
  Speaker 1: the hut to get bread, cucumbers, and fresh honey to
• 2:44:41
  Speaker 1: regale them with. Trying to make his movements as deliberate
• 2:44:45
  Speaker 1: as possible, and listening to the bees that buzzed more
• 2:44:48
  Speaker 1: and more frequently past him, he walked along the little
• 2:44:51
  Speaker 1: path to the hut. In the very entry, one be
• 2:44:54
  Speaker 1: hummed angrily, caught in his beard, but he carefully extricated it.
• 2:45:00
  Speaker 1: Going into the shady outer room, he took down from
• 2:45:02
  Speaker 1: the wall his veil that hung on a peg, and
• 2:45:05
  Speaker 1: putting it on, and thrusting his hands into his pockets,
• 2:45:08
  Speaker 1: he went into the fenced in bee garden, where there
• 2:45:10
  Speaker 1: stood in the midst of a closely mowned space, in
• 2:45:13
  Speaker 1: regular rows fastened with bast on posts, all the hives
• 2:45:16
  Speaker 1: he knew so well, the old stocks, each with its
• 2:45:20
  Speaker 1: own history, and along the fences the younger swarms hived
• 2:45:23
  Speaker 1: that year in front of the openings of the hives.
• 2:45:27
  Speaker 1: It made his eyes giddy to watch the bees and
• 2:45:29
  Speaker 1: drones whirling round and round about the same spot, while
• 2:45:32
  Speaker 1: among them the working bees flew in and out with
• 2:45:34
  Speaker 1: spoils or in search of them, always in the same direction,
• 2:45:38
  Speaker 1: into the wood, to the flowering lime trees, and back
• 2:45:41
  Speaker 1: to the hives. His ears were filled with the incessant
• 2:45:45
  Speaker 1: hum in various notes. Now, the busy hum of the
• 2:45:47
  Speaker 1: working be flying quickly off, then the blaring of the
• 2:45:50
  Speaker 1: lazy drone, and the excited buzz of the bees on guard,
• 2:45:54
  Speaker 1: protecting their property from the enemy and preparing to sting.
• 2:45:58
  Speaker 1: On the farther side of the fence, the old bee
• 2:46:00
  Speaker 1: keeper was shaving a hoop for a tub, and he
• 2:46:03
  Speaker 1: did not see Levin. Levin stood still in the midst
• 2:46:06
  Speaker 1: of the beehives and did not call him. He was
• 2:46:10
  Speaker 1: glad of a chance to be alone, to recover from
• 2:46:12
  Speaker 1: the influence of ordinary actual life, which had already depressed
• 2:46:15
  Speaker 1: his happy mood. He thought that he had already had
• 2:46:19
  Speaker 1: time to lose his temper with Ivan, to show coolness
• 2:46:22
  Speaker 1: to his brother, and to talk flippantly with Catavsov. Can
• 2:46:26
  Speaker 1: it have been only a momentary mood? And will it
• 2:46:28
  Speaker 1: pass and leave no trace? He thought? But the same instant,
• 2:46:33
  Speaker 1: going back to his mood, he felt with delight that
• 2:46:35
  Speaker 1: something new and important had happened to him. Real life
• 2:46:39
  Speaker 1: had only, for a time overcast the spiritual peace he
• 2:46:42
  Speaker 1: had found, but it was still untouched within him. Just
• 2:46:46
  Speaker 1: as the bees whirling round him, now menacing him and
• 2:46:49
  Speaker 1: distracting his attention, prevented him from enjoying complete physical peace,
• 2:46:53
  Speaker 1: forced him to restrain his movements to avoid them, so
• 2:46:56
  Speaker 1: had the petty cares that had swarmed about him from
• 2:46:58
  Speaker 1: the moment he got into the trap restricted his spiritual freedom,
• 2:47:02
  Speaker 1: but that lasted only so long as he was among them.
• 2:47:06
  Speaker 1: Just as his bodily strength was still unaffected in spite
• 2:47:10
  Speaker 1: of the bees, so too was the spiritual strength that
• 2:47:13
  Speaker 1: he had just become aware of. Chapter fifteen. Do you
• 2:47:16
  Speaker 1: know Kostia with whom Sergey Ivanofitch traveled on his way here,
• 2:47:22
  Speaker 1: said Dolly, doling out cucumbers and honey to the children.
• 2:47:25
  Speaker 1: With Vronsky, he's going to Servia, and not alone. He's
• 2:47:30
  Speaker 1: taking a squadron out with him, at his own expense,
• 2:47:33
  Speaker 1: said Katavasov. That's the right thing for him, said Levin.
• 2:47:38
  Speaker 1: Our volunteers still going out, then, he added, glancing at
• 2:47:42
  Speaker 1: Sergey Ivanovich. Sergey Ivanovich did not answer. He was carefully
• 2:47:48
  Speaker 1: with a blunt knife, getting alive, be covered with sticky
• 2:47:51
  Speaker 1: honey out of a cupful of white honeycomb. I should
• 2:47:54
  Speaker 1: think so. You should have seen what was going on
• 2:47:57
  Speaker 1: at the station yesterday, said kata Abasov, biting with a
• 2:48:01
  Speaker 1: juicy sound into a cucumber. Well, what is one to
• 2:48:05
  Speaker 1: make of it? For mercy's sake, do explain to me,
• 2:48:09
  Speaker 1: Sergey Ivanovitch, where are all those volunteers going. Whom are
• 2:48:13
  Speaker 1: they fighting with? Asked the old prince, unmistakably taking up
• 2:48:16
  Speaker 1: a conversation that had sprung up in Levin's absence with
• 2:48:20
  Speaker 1: the Turks. Sergey Ivanovitch answered, smiling serenely, as he extricated
• 2:48:25
  Speaker 1: the bee dark with honey in helplessly kicking, and put
• 2:48:28
  Speaker 1: it with the knife on a stout aspen leaf. But
• 2:48:31
  Speaker 1: who has declared war on the Turks, ivan Ivanovitch, Ragasov
• 2:48:35
  Speaker 1: and Countess Lydya Ivanovna, assisted by Madame Stahl. No one
• 2:48:40
  Speaker 1: has declared war. But people sympathize with their neighbor's sufferings
• 2:48:43
  Speaker 1: and are eager to help them, said Sergey Ivanovitch. But
• 2:48:47
  Speaker 1: the Prince is not speaking of help, said Levin, coming
• 2:48:51
  Speaker 1: to the assistance of his father in law, But of war.
• 2:48:54
  Speaker 1: The Prince says that private persons cannot take part in
• 2:48:57
  Speaker 1: war without the permission of the government. Kostiya, mind, that's
• 2:49:02
  Speaker 1: a bee. Really, they'll sting us, said Dolly, waving away
• 2:49:06
  Speaker 1: a wasp. But that's not a bee, it's a wasp,
• 2:49:10
  Speaker 1: said Levin. Well now, well, what's your own theory, Katavsov
• 2:49:16
  Speaker 1: said to Levin with a smile, distinctly challenging him to
• 2:49:19
  Speaker 1: a discussion. Why have not private persons the right to
• 2:49:23
  Speaker 1: do so? Oh? My theory is this war is on
• 2:49:27
  Speaker 1: one side, such a beastly cruel and awful thing that
• 2:49:31
  Speaker 1: no one man not to speak of a Christian can
• 2:49:33
  Speaker 1: individually take upon himself the responsibility of beginning wars that
• 2:49:37
  Speaker 1: can only be done by a government, which is called
• 2:49:40
  Speaker 1: upon to do this and is driven inevitably into war.
• 2:49:44
  Speaker 1: On the other hand, both political science and common sense
• 2:49:47
  Speaker 1: teach us that in matters of state, and especially in
• 2:49:50
  Speaker 1: the matter of war, private citizens must forego their personal
• 2:49:53
  Speaker 1: individual will. Sergey Ivanofitch and Katavsov had their replies ready,
• 2:49:58
  Speaker 1: and both began speaking at the same time. But the
• 2:50:01
  Speaker 1: point is, my dear fellow, that there may be cases
• 2:50:04
  Speaker 1: when the government does not carry out the will of
• 2:50:07
  Speaker 1: the citizens, and then the public asserts its will, said Katavasov.
• 2:50:11
  Speaker 1: But evidently Sergey Ivanovitch did not approve of this answer.
• 2:50:16
  Speaker 1: His brows contracted at Katavasov's words, and he said something else.
• 2:50:21
  Speaker 1: You don't put the matter in its true light. There
• 2:50:24
  Speaker 1: is no question here of a declaration of war, but
• 2:50:27
  Speaker 1: simply the expression of a human Christian feeling. Our brothers
• 2:50:31
  Speaker 1: one with us in religion and in race are being massacred,
• 2:50:35
  Speaker 1: even supposing they were not our brothers nor fellow Christians,
• 2:50:39
  Speaker 1: but simply children, women, old people feeling as aroused and
• 2:50:43
  Speaker 1: Russians go eagerly to help in stopping these atrocities. Fancy
• 2:50:48
  Speaker 1: if you were going along the street and saw drunken
• 2:50:50
  Speaker 1: men beating a woman or a child. I imagine you
• 2:50:53
  Speaker 1: would not stop to inquire whether war had been declared
• 2:50:56
  Speaker 1: on the men, but would throw yourself on them and
• 2:50:59
  Speaker 1: protect the victim. But I should not kill them, said Levin. Yes,
• 2:51:04
  Speaker 1: you would kill them. I don't know. If I saw that,
• 2:51:09
  Speaker 1: I might give way to my impulse of the moment,
• 2:51:11
  Speaker 1: But I can't say beforehand, and such a momentary impulse,
• 2:51:15
  Speaker 1: there is not, and there cannot be in the case
• 2:51:18
  Speaker 1: of the oppression of the Slavonic peoples. Possibly for you
• 2:51:22
  Speaker 1: there is not, but for others there is, said Sergey Ivanovitch,
• 2:51:26
  Speaker 1: frowning with displeasure. There are traditions still extant among the
• 2:51:30
  Speaker 1: people of Slavs of the true faith suffering under the
• 2:51:33
  Speaker 1: yoke of the unclean sons of Hagar. The people have
• 2:51:36
  Speaker 1: heard of the sufferings of their brethren and have spoken.
• 2:51:39
  Speaker 1: Perhaps so, said Levin evasively. But I don't see it.
• 2:51:43
  Speaker 1: I'm one of the people myself, and I don't feel
• 2:51:46
  Speaker 1: it here am I too, said the old prince. I've
• 2:51:50
  Speaker 1: been staying abroad and reading the papers, and I must
• 2:51:53
  Speaker 1: own up to the time of the Bulgarian atrocities. I
• 2:51:56
  Speaker 1: couldn't make out why it was all the Russians were
• 2:51:58
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden so fond of their Slavonic brethren,
• 2:52:01
  Speaker 1: while I didn't feel the slightest affection for them. I
• 2:52:04
  Speaker 1: was very much upset, thought I was a monster, or
• 2:52:07
  Speaker 1: that it was the influence of Karlsbad on me. But
• 2:52:11
  Speaker 1: since I have been here, my mind's been set at rest.
• 2:52:14
  Speaker 1: I see that there are people besides me who are
• 2:52:16
  Speaker 1: only interested in Russia and not in their Slavonic brethren.
• 2:52:21
  Speaker 1: Here's Konstantine too. Personal opinions mean nothing in such a case,
• 2:52:26
  Speaker 1: said Sergey Ivanovitch. It's not a matter of personal opinions
• 2:52:30
  Speaker 1: when all Russia, the whole people, has expressed its will.
• 2:52:34
  Speaker 1: But excuse me, I don't see that the people don't
• 2:52:37
  Speaker 1: know anything about it. If you come to that, said
• 2:52:40
  Speaker 1: the old prince, Oh, Papa, how can you say that?
• 2:52:46
  Speaker 1: And last Sunday in church, said Dolly, listening to the conversation,
• 2:52:51
  Speaker 1: Please give me a cloth. She said to the old man,
• 2:52:54
  Speaker 1: who was looking at the children with a smile. Why
• 2:52:57
  Speaker 1: it's not possible that all, But what was it in
• 2:53:01
  Speaker 1: church on Sunday? The priest had been told to read
• 2:53:04
  Speaker 1: that he read it. They didn't understand a word of it.
• 2:53:09
  Speaker 1: Then they were told that there was to be a
• 2:53:11
  Speaker 1: collection for a pious object in church. Well, they pulled
• 2:53:15
  Speaker 1: out their halfpence and gave them. But what for they
• 2:53:17
  Speaker 1: couldn't say. The people cannot help knowing. The sense of
• 2:53:21
  Speaker 1: their own destinies is always in the people, and at
• 2:53:24
  Speaker 1: such moments as the present, that sense find's utterance. Sat
• 2:53:27
  Speaker 1: Sergey Ivanovitch with conviction, glancing at the old bee keeper.
• 2:53:32
  Speaker 1: The handsome old man with black grizzled beard and thick,
• 2:53:35
  Speaker 1: silvery hair, stood motionless, holding a cup of honey, looking
• 2:53:39
  Speaker 1: down from the height of his tall figure with friendly
• 2:53:41
  Speaker 1: serenity at the gentlefolk, obviously understanding nothing of their conversation
• 2:53:45
  Speaker 1: and not caring to understand it. That's so, no doubt,
• 2:53:50
  Speaker 1: he said, with a significant shake of his head at
• 2:53:52
  Speaker 1: Sergey Ivanovitch's words. Here then ask him he knows nothing
• 2:53:58
  Speaker 1: about it and thinks nothing, said Levin, have you heard
• 2:54:02
  Speaker 1: about the war Mihelich? He said, turning to him, what
• 2:54:06
  Speaker 1: they read in the church, What do you think about it? Ought?
• 2:54:10
  Speaker 1: We to fight for the Christians. What should we think,
• 2:54:15
  Speaker 1: Alexander Nikolyevitch. Our emperor has thought for us. He thinks
• 2:54:18
  Speaker 1: for us. Indeed, in all things it's clearer for him
• 2:54:22
  Speaker 1: to see. Shall I bring a bit more bread? Give
• 2:54:26
  Speaker 1: the little lad some more? He said, addressing Darya Alexandrovna
• 2:54:30
  Speaker 1: and pointing to Grisha, who had finished his crust. I
• 2:54:34
  Speaker 1: don't need to ask, said Sergey Ivanovitch. We have seen
• 2:54:37
  Speaker 1: and are seeing hundreds and hundreds of people who give
• 2:54:39
  Speaker 1: up everything to serve a just cause, come from every
• 2:54:42
  Speaker 1: part of Russia, and directly and clearly express their thought
• 2:54:45
  Speaker 1: and aim. They bring their halfpence or go themselves and
• 2:54:49
  Speaker 1: say directly what for? What does it mean? It means
• 2:54:54
  Speaker 1: to my thinking, said Levin, who was beginning to get warm,
• 2:54:57
  Speaker 1: that among eighty millions of people there can all wa
• 2:55:00
  Speaker 1: always be found, not hundreds as now, but tens of
• 2:55:03
  Speaker 1: thousands of people who have lost caste an ere duells,
• 2:55:06
  Speaker 1: who are always ready to go anywhere, to Pogatchev's bands,
• 2:55:09
  Speaker 1: to Kiva, to servia. I tell you that it's not
• 2:55:13
  Speaker 1: a case of hundreds or of anyer duwells, but the
• 2:55:16
  Speaker 1: best representatives of the people, said Sergey Ivanovich, with as
• 2:55:20
  Speaker 1: much irritation as if he were defending the last penny
• 2:55:22
  Speaker 1: of his fortune. And what of the subscriptions? In this
• 2:55:27
  Speaker 1: case it is a whole people directly expressing their will.
• 2:55:31
  Speaker 1: That word people is so vague, said Levin. Parish clerks, teachers,
• 2:55:36
  Speaker 1: and one in a thousand of the peasants maybe know
• 2:55:39
  Speaker 1: what it's all about. The rest of the eighty millions,
• 2:55:43
  Speaker 1: like Mihelich, far from expressing their will. Haven't the faintest
• 2:55:46
  Speaker 1: idea what there is for them to express their will? About?
• 2:55:50
  Speaker 1: What right have we to say that this is the
• 2:55:52
  Speaker 1: people's will? Chapter sixteen. Sergey Ivanovich, being practiced in argument,
• 2:55:57
  Speaker 1: did not reply, but at once turned the conversation to
• 2:56:00
  Speaker 1: another aspect of the subject. Oh, if you want to
• 2:56:03
  Speaker 1: learn the spirit of the people by arithmetical computation, of course,
• 2:56:07
  Speaker 1: it's very difficult to arrive at it. And voting has
• 2:56:11
  Speaker 1: not been introduced among us, and cannot be introduced, for
• 2:56:14
  Speaker 1: it does not express the will of the people. But
• 2:56:16
  Speaker 1: there are other ways of reaching that. It is felt
• 2:56:19
  Speaker 1: in the air, it is felt by the heart. I
• 2:56:22
  Speaker 1: won't speak of those deep currents which are astir in
• 2:56:25
  Speaker 1: the still ocean of the people, and which are evident
• 2:56:27
  Speaker 1: to every unprejudiced man. Let us look at society in
• 2:56:31
  Speaker 1: the narrow sense. All the most diverse sections of the
• 2:56:34
  Speaker 1: educated public hostile before, are merged in one. Every division
• 2:56:40
  Speaker 1: is at an end. All the public organs say the
• 2:56:42
  Speaker 1: same thing over and over again. All feel the mighty
• 2:56:45
  Speaker 1: torrent that has overtaken them and is carrying them in
• 2:56:48
  Speaker 1: one direction. Yes, all the newspapers do say the same thing,
• 2:56:52
  Speaker 1: said the Prince. That's true, But so it is the
• 2:56:57
  Speaker 1: same thing that all the frogs croak before a storm.
• 2:57:01
  Speaker 1: One can hear nothing for them, frogs or no frogs.
• 2:57:05
  Speaker 1: I'm not the editor of a paper, and I don't
• 2:57:07
  Speaker 1: want to defend them. But I am speaking of the
• 2:57:09
  Speaker 1: unanimity in the intellectual world, said Sergey Ivanofitch, addressing his brother.
• 2:57:14
  Speaker 1: Levin would have answered, but the old Prince interrupted him.
• 2:57:18
  Speaker 1: Well about that unanimity, that's another thing one may say,
• 2:57:23
  Speaker 1: said the Prince. There's my son in law, Stepan Arkadyevitch.
• 2:57:27
  Speaker 1: You know him. He's got a place now on the
• 2:57:30
  Speaker 1: committee of a commission something or other. I don't remember.
• 2:57:34
  Speaker 1: Only there's nothing to do in it. Why, dolly, it's
• 2:57:37
  Speaker 1: no secret and a salary of eight thousand. You try
• 2:57:41
  Speaker 1: asking him whether his post is of use, he'll prove
• 2:57:44
  Speaker 1: to you that it's most necessary. And he's a truthful
• 2:57:48
  Speaker 1: man too. But there's no refusing to believe in the
• 2:57:51
  Speaker 1: utility of eight thousand roubles. Yes, he asked me to
• 2:57:55
  Speaker 1: give a message to Darya Alexandrovna about the post, said
• 2:57:59
  Speaker 1: Sergey Ivanitch, reluctantly, feeling the Prince's remark to be ill timed.
• 2:58:04
  Speaker 1: So it is with the unanimity of the press that's
• 2:58:07
  Speaker 1: been explained to me. As soon as there's war, their
• 2:58:10
  Speaker 1: incomes are doubled. How can they help believing in the
• 2:58:13
  Speaker 1: destinies of the people and the Slavonic races and all that.
• 2:58:18
  Speaker 1: I don't care for many of the papers, but that's unjust,
• 2:58:21
  Speaker 1: said Sergey Ivanofitch. I would only make one condition, pursued
• 2:58:26
  Speaker 1: the old Prince, Alphonse Kar said a capital thing. Before
• 2:58:30
  Speaker 1: the war with Prussia, you consider war to be inevitable,
• 2:58:34
  Speaker 1: very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in
• 2:58:38
  Speaker 1: a special regiment of advance guards for the front of
• 2:58:41
  Speaker 1: every storm, of every attack, to lead them all a
• 2:58:45
  Speaker 1: nice lot the editors would make, said Katavasov with a
• 2:58:48
  Speaker 1: loud roar as he pictured the editors he knew in
• 2:58:51
  Speaker 1: this picked legion. But they'd run, said Dolly, They'd only
• 2:58:55
  Speaker 1: be in the way. Oh, if they ran away, then
• 2:58:59
  Speaker 1: we'd have great shot or cossacks with whips behind them,
• 2:59:02
  Speaker 1: said the Prince. But that's a joke, and a poor
• 2:59:05
  Speaker 1: one too, if you'll excuse my saying so, Prince, said
• 2:59:09
  Speaker 1: Sergey Ivanovitch. I don't see that it was a joke
• 2:59:13
  Speaker 1: that Levin was beginning, but Sergey Ivanovitch interrupted him. Every
• 2:59:18
  Speaker 1: member of society is called upon to do his own
• 2:59:21
  Speaker 1: special work, said he. And men of thought are doing
• 2:59:25
  Speaker 1: their work when they express public opinion. And the single
• 2:59:28
  Speaker 1: hearted and full expression of public opinion is the service
• 2:59:32
  Speaker 1: of the press and a phenomenon to rejoice us. At
• 2:59:34
  Speaker 1: the same time, twenty years ago we should have been silent,
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  Speaker 1: But now we have heard the voice of the Russian people,
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  Speaker 1: which is ready to rise as one man and ready
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  Speaker 1: to sacrifice itself for its oppressed brethren. That is a
• 2:59:46
  Speaker 1: great step and a proof of strength. But it's not
• 2:59:49
  Speaker 1: only making a sacrifice, but killing Turks, said Levin timidly.
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  Speaker 1: The people make sacrifices and are ready to make sacrifices
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  Speaker 1: for their soul, but not for murder, he added, instinctively,
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  Speaker 1: connecting the conversation with the ideas that had been absorbing
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  Speaker 1: his mind. For their soul. That's a most puzzling expression
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  Speaker 1: for a natural science man. Do you understand what sort
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  Speaker 1: of thing is the soul? Said Katavsov, smiling, Oh you know. No,
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  Speaker 1: by God, I haven't the faintest idea, said Katavsov, with
• 3:00:25
  Speaker 1: a loud roar of laughter. I bring not peace, but
• 3:00:29
  Speaker 1: a sword, says christ Sergey Ivanofitch rejoined for his part,
• 3:00:33
  Speaker 1: quoting as simply as though it were the easiest thing
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  Speaker 1: to understand, the very passage that had always puzzled Levin most.
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  Speaker 1: That's so, no doubt, the old man repeated again. He
• 3:00:44
  Speaker 1: was standing near them, and responded to a chance glance
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  Speaker 1: turned in his direction. Ah my, dear fellow, you're defeated,
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  Speaker 1: utterly defeated, cried Katavsov, good humoredly. Levin reddened with vexation,
• 3:00:57
  Speaker 1: not at being defeated, but at having failed to control
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  Speaker 1: himself and being drawn into argument. No, I can't argue
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  Speaker 1: with them. He thought they were impenetrable armor. While I'm naked.
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  Speaker 1: He saw that it was impossible to convince his brother
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  Speaker 1: in Katavisov, and he saw even less possibility of himself
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  Speaker 1: agreeing with them. What they advocated was the very pride
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  Speaker 1: of intellect that had almost been his ruin. He could
• 3:01:21
  Speaker 1: not admit that some dozens of men, among them his brother,
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  Speaker 1: had the right on the ground of what they were
• 3:01:26
  Speaker 1: told by some hundreds of glib volunteers swarming to the capital,
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  Speaker 1: to say that they and the newspapers were expressing the
• 3:01:32
  Speaker 1: will and feeling of the people, and a feeling which
• 3:01:35
  Speaker 1: was expressed in vengeance and murder. He could not admit
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  Speaker 1: this because he neither saw the expression of such feelings
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  Speaker 1: in the people among whom he was living, nor found
• 3:01:44
  Speaker 1: them in himself, and he could not but consider himself
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  Speaker 1: one of the persons making up the Russian people. And
• 3:01:50
  Speaker 1: most of all, because he, like the people, did not
• 3:01:53
  Speaker 1: know and could not know, what is for the general good,
• 3:01:56
  Speaker 1: though he knew beyond a doubt that this general good
• 3:01:58
  Speaker 1: could be attained only by the strict observance of that
• 3:02:01
  Speaker 1: law of right and wrong which has been revealed to
• 3:02:04
  Speaker 1: every man. And therefore he could not wish for war
• 3:02:06
  Speaker 1: or advocate war for any general objects. Whatever he said
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  Speaker 1: as Mihelitch did, and the people, who had expressed their
• 3:02:14
  Speaker 1: feeling in the traditional invitations of the variety, be princes
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  Speaker 1: and rule over us gladly. We promise complete submission, all
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  Speaker 1: the labor, all humiliations, all sacrifices we take upon ourselves,
• 3:02:27
  Speaker 1: but we will not judge and decide. And now, according
• 3:02:31
  Speaker 1: to Sergey Ivanovitch's account, the people had foregone this privilege
• 3:02:35
  Speaker 1: they had bought at such a costly price. He wanted
• 3:02:39
  Speaker 1: to say too, that if public opinion were an infallible guide,
• 3:02:42
  Speaker 1: then why were not revolutions and the commune as lawful
• 3:02:45
  Speaker 1: as the movement in favor of the Slavonic peoples. But
• 3:02:49
  Speaker 1: these were merely thoughts that could settle nothing. One thing
• 3:02:53
  Speaker 1: could be seen beyond doubt. That was that, at the
• 3:02:56
  Speaker 1: actual moment, the discussion was irritating Sergey Ivanofitch, and so
• 3:03:00
  Speaker 1: it was wrong to continue it. And Levin ceased speaking,
• 3:03:04
  Speaker 1: and then called the attention of his guests to the
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  Speaker 1: fact that the storm clouds were gathering and that they
• 3:03:09
  Speaker 1: had better be going home before it rained. Chapter seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: The old Prince and Sergey Ivanovitch got into the trap
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  Speaker 1: and drove off the rest of the party hastened homewards
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  Speaker 1: on foot, but the storm clouds, turning white and then black,
• 3:03:23
  Speaker 1: moved down so quickly that they had to quicken their
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  Speaker 1: pace to get home before the rain. The foremost clouds,
• 3:03:30
  Speaker 1: lowering in black as soot laden smoke, rushed with extraordinary
• 3:03:33
  Speaker 1: swiftness over the sky. They were still two hundred paces
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  Speaker 1: from home, and a gust of wind had already blown up,
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  Speaker 1: and every second the downpour might be looked for. The
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  Speaker 1: children ran ahead with frightened and gleeful shrieks. Darya Alexandrovna,
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  Speaker 1: struggling painfully with her skirts that clung round her legs,
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  Speaker 1: was not walking but running, her eyes fixed on the children.
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  Speaker 1: The men of the party, holding their hats on, strode
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  Speaker 1: with long steps beside her. They were just at the
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  Speaker 1: steps when a big drop fell, splashing on the edge
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  Speaker 1: of the iron guttering. The children and their elders after them,
• 3:04:10
  Speaker 1: ran into the shelter of the house, talking merrily. Katerina
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  Speaker 1: Alexandrovna Levin asked of Agafya Mihalovna, who met them with
• 3:04:20
  Speaker 1: kerchiefs and rugs in the hull. We thought she was
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  Speaker 1: with you, she said, and Mitya in the copse he
• 3:04:28
  Speaker 1: must be, and the nurse with him. Levin snatched up
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  Speaker 1: the rugs and ran towards the copse. In that brief
• 3:04:34
  Speaker 1: interval of time, the storm clouds had moved on, covering
• 3:04:38
  Speaker 1: the sun so completely that it was dark as an eclipse. Stubbornly,
• 3:04:42
  Speaker 1: as though insisting on its rights, the wind stopped Levin
• 3:04:46
  Speaker 1: and tearing the leaves and flowers off the lime trees,
• 3:04:48
  Speaker 1: and stripping the white birch branches into strange, unseemly nakedness.
• 3:04:52
  Speaker 1: It twisted everything on one side, acacias, flowers, burdocks, long grass,
• 3:04:58
  Speaker 1: and tall tree tops. The peasant girls working in the
• 3:05:02
  Speaker 1: garden ran shrieking into shelter in the servants quarters. The
• 3:05:06
  Speaker 1: streaming rain had already flung its white veil over all
• 3:05:09
  Speaker 1: the distant forest and half the fields close by, and
• 3:05:12
  Speaker 1: was rapidly swooping down upon the copse. The wet of
• 3:05:16
  Speaker 1: the rain spurting up in tiny drops, could be smelt
• 3:05:19
  Speaker 1: in the air. Holding his head bent down before him
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  Speaker 1: and struggling with the wind that strove to tear the
• 3:05:25
  Speaker 1: raps away from him, Levin was moving up to the
• 3:05:27
  Speaker 1: copse and had just caught sight of something white behind
• 3:05:30
  Speaker 1: the oak tree. When there was a sudden flash, the
• 3:05:32
  Speaker 1: whole earth seemed on fire, and the vault of heaven
• 3:05:35
  Speaker 1: seemed crashing overhead. Opening his blinded eyes, Levin gazed through
• 3:05:40
  Speaker 1: the thick veil of rain that separated him now from
• 3:05:43
  Speaker 1: the copse, and to his horror, the first thing he
• 3:05:45
  Speaker 1: saw was the green crest of the familiar oak tree
• 3:05:48
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the copse, uncannily changing its position.
• 3:05:51
  Speaker 1: Can it have been struck? Levin hardly had time to think,
• 3:05:55
  Speaker 1: when moving more and more rapidly, the oak tree vanished
• 3:05:59
  Speaker 1: behind the other trees, and he heard the crash of
• 3:06:01
  Speaker 1: the great tree falling upon the others. The flash of lightning,
• 3:06:06
  Speaker 1: the crash of thunder, and the instantaneous chill that ran
• 3:06:09
  Speaker 1: through him were all merged for Levin in one sense
• 3:06:12
  Speaker 1: of terror. My God, my God, not on them, he said,
• 3:06:19
  Speaker 1: And though he thought at once how senseless was his
• 3:06:21
  Speaker 1: prayer that they should not have been killed by the
• 3:06:23
  Speaker 1: oak which had fallen, now he repeated it, knowing that
• 3:06:26
  Speaker 1: he could do nothing better than utter this senseless prayer.
• 3:06:30
  Speaker 1: Running up to the place where they usually went, he
• 3:06:32
  Speaker 1: did not find them there. They were at the other
• 3:06:35
  Speaker 1: end of the copse. Under an old lime tree. They
• 3:06:38
  Speaker 1: were calling him. Two figures in dark dresses. They had
• 3:06:42
  Speaker 1: been light summer dresses when they started out, were standing
• 3:06:45
  Speaker 1: bending over something. It was Kitty with the nurse. The
• 3:06:49
  Speaker 1: rain was already ceasing and it was beginning to get
• 3:06:52
  Speaker 1: light when Levin reached them. The nurse was not wet
• 3:06:56
  Speaker 1: on the lower part of her dress, but Kitty was
• 3:06:58
  Speaker 1: drenched through and her soaked clothes clung to her. Though
• 3:07:02
  Speaker 1: the rain was over, they still stood in the same
• 3:07:05
  Speaker 1: position in which they had been standing when the storm broke.
• 3:07:09
  Speaker 1: Both stood bending over a perambulator with a green umbrella. Alive, unhurt,
• 3:07:16
  Speaker 1: Thank god, he said, splashing with his soaked boots through
• 3:07:20
  Speaker 1: the standing water and running up to them. Kitty's rosy
• 3:07:24
  Speaker 1: wet face was turned towards him, and she smiled timidly
• 3:07:27
  Speaker 1: under her shapeless sobbed hat. Aren't you ashamed of yourself?
• 3:07:32
  Speaker 1: I can't think how you can be so reckless, he
• 3:07:34
  Speaker 1: said angrily to his wife. It wasn't my fault, really,
• 3:07:39
  Speaker 1: We were just meaning to go when he made such
• 3:07:42
  Speaker 1: a to do that we had to change him. We
• 3:07:45
  Speaker 1: were just Kitty began defending herself. Mitya was unharmed, dry
• 3:07:50
  Speaker 1: and still fast asleep. Well, thank god, I don't know
• 3:07:55
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. They gathered up the baby's wet belongings.
• 3:07:58
  Speaker 1: The nurse picked up the baby be and carried it.
• 3:08:02
  Speaker 1: Levin walked beside his wife and penitent for having been angry,
• 3:08:06
  Speaker 1: he squeezed her hand when the nurse was not looking
• 3:08:09
  Speaker 1: Chapter eighteen. During the whole of that day, in the
• 3:08:12
  Speaker 1: extremely different conversations in which he took part only as
• 3:08:16
  Speaker 1: it were, with the top layer of his mind. In
• 3:08:18
  Speaker 1: spite of the disappointment of not finding the change he
• 3:08:20
  Speaker 1: expected in himself, Levin had been all the while joyfully
• 3:08:24
  Speaker 1: conscious of the fullness of his heart. After the rain,
• 3:08:27
  Speaker 1: it was too wet to go for a walk. Besides,
• 3:08:30
  Speaker 1: the storm clouds still hung about the horizon and gathered
• 3:08:33
  Speaker 1: here and there, black and thundery on the rim of
• 3:08:36
  Speaker 1: the sky. The whole party spent the rest of the
• 3:08:39
  Speaker 1: day in the house. No more discussion sprang up. On
• 3:08:43
  Speaker 1: the contrary, after dinner, every one was in the most
• 3:08:46
  Speaker 1: amiable frame of mind. At first, Katavasov amused the ladies
• 3:08:50
  Speaker 1: by his original jokes, which always pleased people on their
• 3:08:54
  Speaker 1: first acquaintance with him. Then Sergey Ivanovich induced him to
• 3:08:58
  Speaker 1: tell them about the very interesting observations he had made
• 3:09:01
  Speaker 1: on the habits and characteristics of common house flies and
• 3:09:04
  Speaker 1: their life. Sergey Ivanovitch two was in good spirits, and
• 3:09:09
  Speaker 1: that tea his brother drew him on to explain his
• 3:09:12
  Speaker 1: views of the future of the Eastern Question, and he
• 3:09:14
  Speaker 1: spoke so simply and so well that everyone listened eagerly.
• 3:09:19
  Speaker 1: Kitty was the only one who did not hear at all.
• 3:09:21
  Speaker 1: She was summoned to give Mitya his bath. A few
• 3:09:24
  Speaker 1: minutes after Kitty had left the room, she sent for
• 3:09:27
  Speaker 1: Levin to come to the nursery, leaving his tea and
• 3:09:30
  Speaker 1: regretfully interrupting the interesting conversation and at the same time
• 3:09:34
  Speaker 1: uneasily wondering why he had been sent for, as this
• 3:09:37
  Speaker 1: only happened on important occasions, Levin went to the nursery.
• 3:09:41
  Speaker 1: Although he had been much interested by Sergey Ivanovitch's views
• 3:09:45
  Speaker 1: of the new epoch in history that would be created
• 3:09:47
  Speaker 1: by the emancipation of forty millions of men of Slavonic
• 3:09:50
  Speaker 1: race acting with Russia, a conception quite new to him,
• 3:09:53
  Speaker 1: and although he was disturbed by uneasy wonder at being
• 3:09:56
  Speaker 1: sent for by kitty. As soon as he came out
• 3:09:59
  Speaker 1: of the drawing room and was alone, his mind reverted
• 3:10:02
  Speaker 1: at once to the thoughts of the morning, and all
• 3:10:05
  Speaker 1: the theories of the significance of the slav element in
• 3:10:08
  Speaker 1: the history of the world seemed to him so trivial
• 3:10:10
  Speaker 1: compared with what was passing in his own soul that
• 3:10:14
  Speaker 1: he instantly forgot it all and dropped back into the
• 3:10:16
  Speaker 1: same frame of mind that he had been in that morning.
• 3:10:20
  Speaker 1: He did not, as he had done at other times,
• 3:10:23
  Speaker 1: recall the whole train of thought that he did not need.
• 3:10:27
  Speaker 1: He fell back at once into the feeling which had
• 3:10:29
  Speaker 1: guided him, which was connected with those thoughts, and he
• 3:10:32
  Speaker 1: found that feeling in his soul even stronger and more
• 3:10:35
  Speaker 1: definite than before. He did not, as he had had
• 3:10:38
  Speaker 1: to do with previous attempts to find comforting arguments, need
• 3:10:42
  Speaker 1: to revive a whole chain of thought to find the feeling. Now,
• 3:10:46
  Speaker 1: on the contrary, the feeling of joy and peace was
• 3:10:49
  Speaker 1: keener than ever, and thought could not keep pace with feeling.
• 3:10:53
  Speaker 1: He walked across the terrace and looked at two stars
• 3:10:56
  Speaker 1: that had come out in the darkening sky, and suddenly
• 3:10:59
  Speaker 1: he remembered, yes, looking at the sky. I thought that
• 3:11:03
  Speaker 1: the dome that I see is not a deception. And
• 3:11:05
  Speaker 1: then I thought something. I shirked facing something, he mused,
• 3:11:10
  Speaker 1: But whatever it was, there can be no disproving it.
• 3:11:13
  Speaker 1: I have but to think and all will come clear.
• 3:11:16
  Speaker 1: Just as he was going into the nursery, he remembered
• 3:11:18
  Speaker 1: what it was he had shirked facing. It was that
• 3:11:21
  Speaker 1: if the chief proof of the divinity was his revelation
• 3:11:24
  Speaker 1: of what is right, how is it this revelation is
• 3:11:27
  Speaker 1: confined to the Christian Church alone? What relation to this
• 3:11:30
  Speaker 1: revelation have the beliefs of the Buddhists Mohammedans who preached
• 3:11:34
  Speaker 1: and did good too. It seemed to him that he
• 3:11:37
  Speaker 1: had an answer to this question, but he had not
• 3:11:40
  Speaker 1: time to formulate it to himself before he went into
• 3:11:42
  Speaker 1: the nursery. Kitty was standing with her sleeves tucked up
• 3:11:46
  Speaker 1: over the baby in the bath. Hearing her husband's footstep,
• 3:11:50
  Speaker 1: she turned towards him, summoning him to her with her smile.
• 3:11:55
  Speaker 1: With one hand, she was supporting the fat baby that
• 3:11:57
  Speaker 1: lay floating and sprawling on its back, while with the
• 3:12:00
  Speaker 1: other she squeezed the sponge over him. Come look, look,
• 3:12:04
  Speaker 1: she said. When her husband came up to her. Agafya
• 3:12:08
  Speaker 1: Mihalovna's right. He knows us Mitya had on that day
• 3:12:12
  Speaker 1: given unmistakable, incontestable signs of recognizing all his friends. As
• 3:12:18
  Speaker 1: soon as Levin approached the bath, the experiment was tried,
• 3:12:22
  Speaker 1: and it was completely successful. The cook sent for with
• 3:12:26
  Speaker 1: this object, bent over the baby. He frowned and shook
• 3:12:30
  Speaker 1: his head disapprovingly. Kitty bent down to him. He gave
• 3:12:34
  Speaker 1: her a beaming smile, propped his little hands on the sponge,
• 3:12:37
  Speaker 1: and chirruped, making such a queer, little contented sound with
• 3:12:40
  Speaker 1: his lips that Kitty and the nurse were not alone
• 3:12:43
  Speaker 1: in their admiration. Levin, too was surprised and delighted. The
• 3:12:49
  Speaker 1: baby was taken out of the bath, drenched with water,
• 3:12:52
  Speaker 1: wrapped in towels, dried, and after a piercing scream, handed
• 3:12:56
  Speaker 1: to his mother. Well, I'm glad you are beginning to
• 3:13:00
  Speaker 1: love him, said Kitty to her husband, when she had
• 3:13:02
  Speaker 1: settled herself comfortably in her usual place, with the baby
• 3:13:06
  Speaker 1: at her breast. I am so glad it had begun
• 3:13:10
  Speaker 1: to distress me. You said you had no feeling for him. No,
• 3:13:16
  Speaker 1: did I say that. I only said, I was disappointed.
• 3:13:20
  Speaker 1: What disappointed in him? Not disappointed in him, but in
• 3:13:25
  Speaker 1: my own feeling. I had expected more. I had expected
• 3:13:29
  Speaker 1: a rush of new, delightful emotion to come as a surprise,
• 3:13:33
  Speaker 1: And then instead of that disgust pity. She listened attentively,
• 3:13:38
  Speaker 1: looking at him over the baby, while she put back
• 3:13:41
  Speaker 1: on her slender fingers, the rings she had taken off
• 3:13:43
  Speaker 1: while giving Mitya his bath, and most of all, at
• 3:13:47
  Speaker 1: their being far more apprehension and pity than pleasure. To
• 3:13:51
  Speaker 1: day after that fright during the storm, I understand how
• 3:13:54
  Speaker 1: I love him. Kitty's smile was radiant. Were you very
• 3:13:58
  Speaker 1: much frightened? She said? So was I too, But I
• 3:14:02
  Speaker 1: feel it more now that it's over. I'm going to
• 3:14:05
  Speaker 1: look at the oak. How nice Katavasov is, and what
• 3:14:10
  Speaker 1: a happy day we've had altogether. And you're so nice
• 3:14:13
  Speaker 1: with Sergey Ivanovitch. When you care to be well, go
• 3:14:18
  Speaker 1: back to them. It's always so hot and steamy here.
• 3:14:21
  Speaker 1: After the bath, Chapter nineteen, Going out of the nursery
• 3:14:25
  Speaker 1: and being again alone, Levin went back at once to
• 3:14:28
  Speaker 1: the thought in which there was something not clear, instead
• 3:14:32
  Speaker 1: of going into the drawing room, where he heard voices.
• 3:14:35
  Speaker 1: He stopped on the terrace, and leaning his elbows on
• 3:14:37
  Speaker 1: the parapet, he gazed up at the sky. It was
• 3:14:41
  Speaker 1: quite dark now, and in the south where he was
• 3:14:44
  Speaker 1: looking there were no clouds. The storm had drifted on
• 3:14:48
  Speaker 1: to the opposite side of the sky, and there were
• 3:14:50
  Speaker 1: flashes of lightning distant thunder from that quarter. Levin listened
• 3:14:55
  Speaker 1: to the monotonous trip from the lime trees in the garden,
• 3:14:57
  Speaker 1: and looked at the triangle of stars he knew so well,
• 3:15:00
  Speaker 1: and the Milky Way with its branches that ran through
• 3:15:03
  Speaker 1: its midst At each flash of lightning, the Milky Way
• 3:15:07
  Speaker 1: and even the bright stars vanished, But as soon as
• 3:15:10
  Speaker 1: the lightning died away, they reappeared in their places, as
• 3:15:13
  Speaker 1: though some hand had flung them back with careful aim. Well,
• 3:15:17
  Speaker 1: what is it, perplexes me? Levin said to himself, feeling
• 3:15:21
  Speaker 1: beforehand that the solution of his difficulties was ready in
• 3:15:24
  Speaker 1: his soul, though he did not know it yet. Yes,
• 3:15:28
  Speaker 1: the one unmistakable, incontestable manifestation of the divinity is the
• 3:15:32
  Speaker 1: law of right and wrong, which has come into the
• 3:15:35
  Speaker 1: world by revelation, and which I feel in myself and
• 3:15:38
  Speaker 1: in the recognition of which I don't make myself. But
• 3:15:41
  Speaker 1: whether I will or not, I am made one with
• 3:15:43
  Speaker 1: other men, in one body of believers, which is called
• 3:15:46
  Speaker 1: the Church. Well, but the Jews, the Mohammedans, the Confuscians,
• 3:15:51
  Speaker 1: the Buddhists. What of them? He put to himself the
• 3:15:54
  Speaker 1: question he had feared to face. Can these hundreds of
• 3:15:58
  Speaker 1: millions of men be deprived of that highest blessing without
• 3:16:01
  Speaker 1: which life has no meaning? He pondered a moment, but
• 3:16:04
  Speaker 1: immediately corrected himself. But what am I questioning, he said
• 3:16:09
  Speaker 1: to himself. I am questioning the relation to divinity of
• 3:16:13
  Speaker 1: all the different religions of all mankind. I am questioning
• 3:16:17
  Speaker 1: the universal manifestation of God to all the world, with
• 3:16:20
  Speaker 1: all those misty blurs. What am I about to me individually?
• 3:16:25
  Speaker 1: To my heart has been revealed a knowledge beyond all
• 3:16:28
  Speaker 1: doubt and unattainable by reason, And here I am obstinately
• 3:16:32
  Speaker 1: trying to express that knowledge in reason and words. Don't
• 3:16:36
  Speaker 1: I know that the stars don't move? He asked himself,
• 3:16:39
  Speaker 1: gazing at the bright planet, which had shifted its position
• 3:16:41
  Speaker 1: up to the topmost twig of the birch tree. But
• 3:16:45
  Speaker 1: looking at the movements of the stars I can't picture
• 3:16:47
  Speaker 1: to myself the rotation of the Earth, and I am
• 3:16:50
  Speaker 1: right in saying that the stars move. And could the
• 3:16:53
  Speaker 1: astronomers have understood and calculated anything if they had taken
• 3:16:57
  Speaker 1: into account all the complicated and varied motion of the Earth.
• 3:17:02
  Speaker 1: All the marvelous conclusions they have reached about the distances, weights, movements,
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  Speaker 1: and deflections of the heavenly bodies, are only founded on
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  Speaker 1: the apparent motions of the heavenly bodies about a stationary Earth,
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  Speaker 1: on that very motion I see before me now, which
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  Speaker 1: has been so for millions of men during long ages,
• 3:17:19
  Speaker 1: and was and will be always alike and can always
• 3:17:22
  Speaker 1: be trusted. And just as the conclusions of the astronomers
• 3:17:26
  Speaker 1: would have been vain and uncertain if not founded on
• 3:17:29
  Speaker 1: observations of the seen heavens in relation to a single
• 3:17:32
  Speaker 1: meridian in a single horizon, so would my conclusions be
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  Speaker 1: vain and uncertain if not founded on that conception of right,
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  Speaker 1: which has been and will be always alike for all men,
• 3:17:42
  Speaker 1: which has been revealed to me as a Christian, and
• 3:17:45
  Speaker 1: which can always be trusted in my soul. The question
• 3:17:49
  Speaker 1: of other religions and their relations to Divinity, I have
• 3:17:52
  Speaker 1: no right to decide, and no possibility of deciding. Oh,
• 3:17:56
  Speaker 1: you haven't gone. And then he heard Kitty's voice all
• 3:18:00
  Speaker 1: at once as she came by the same way to
• 3:18:02
  Speaker 1: the drawing room. What is it. You're not worried about anything,
• 3:18:07
  Speaker 1: she said, looking intently at his face in the starlight.
• 3:18:11
  Speaker 1: But she could not have seen his face if a
• 3:18:13
  Speaker 1: flash of lightning had not hidden the stars and revealed it.
• 3:18:17
  Speaker 1: In that flash, she saw his face distinctly, and seeing
• 3:18:20
  Speaker 1: him calm and happy, she smiled at him. She understands,
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  Speaker 1: he thought. She knows what I'm thinking about. Shall I
• 3:18:28
  Speaker 1: tell her or not? Yes, I'll tell her. But at
• 3:18:32
  Speaker 1: the moment he was about to speak, she began speaking. Kostiya,
• 3:18:37
  Speaker 1: do something for me, she said. Go into the corner
• 3:18:40
  Speaker 1: room and see if they've made it all right for
• 3:18:42
  Speaker 1: Sergey Ivanovitch. I can't very well see if they've put
• 3:18:47
  Speaker 1: the new wash stand in it very well. I'll go, directly,
• 3:18:51
  Speaker 1: said Levin, standing up and kissing her. No, I'd better
• 3:18:56
  Speaker 1: not speak of it, he thought, when she had gone
• 3:18:58
  Speaker 1: in before him. It is a secret for me alone,
• 3:19:02
  Speaker 1: of vital importance for me, and not to be put
• 3:19:04
  Speaker 1: into words. This new feeling has not changed me has
• 3:19:08
  Speaker 1: not made me happy and enlightened all of a sudden
• 3:19:11
  Speaker 1: as I had dreamed, Just like the feeling for my child,
• 3:19:15
  Speaker 1: there was no surprise in this, either faith or not faith.
• 3:19:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know what it is, but this feeling has
• 3:19:22
  Speaker 1: come just as imperceptibly through suffering and has taken firm
• 3:19:26
  Speaker 1: root in my soul. I shall go on in the
• 3:19:29
  Speaker 1: same way, losing my temper with Ivan the coachman, falling
• 3:19:32
  Speaker 1: into angry discussions, expressing my opinions tactlessly. There will be
• 3:19:36
  Speaker 1: still the same wall between the Holy of Holies of
• 3:19:39
  Speaker 1: my soul and other people. Even my wife. I shall
• 3:19:42
  Speaker 1: still go on scolding her for my own terror and
• 3:19:44
  Speaker 1: being remorseful for it. I shall still be as unable
• 3:19:48
  Speaker 1: to understand with my reason why I pray, and I
• 3:19:51
  Speaker 1: shall still go on praying. But my life, now, my
• 3:19:54
  Speaker 1: whole life, apart from anything that can happen to me,
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  Speaker 1: every minute of it is no more meaningless as it
• 3:19:59
  Speaker 1: was before. But it has the positive meaning of goodness,
• 3:20:02
  Speaker 1: which I have the power to put into it. The
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  Speaker 1: end