"Always in my dream, I'm clinging to a branch," "Knowing full well that death inevitably awaits me." "The fear of dying without ever having Known love was greater than the fear of death itself I Know now I was not alone in the horror of this darkness." "So, too, was the fear of Anna Karenina." "It was then that a drop of honey sweet enough to divert my eyes from the cruel truth came into my life." "She was the princess" "EKaterina ScherbatsKy." "Thank you, Constantine Dmitrich." "I didn't know that you were in Moscow." "I arrived yesterday." "I mean, today." "I was going to come to see you." "I didn't know you could skate so well." "I'm awful." "But the rumor is that you are a superlative skater." "Oh, years ago. lt used to be my passion." "Skate with me." "Must be dull in the country in the winter." "Not at all. I'm very busy." "Mama said that you live like a barbarian out there and wear peasant clothes." "There's a lot more to it than you think." "It's very scientific." "Are you here for long?" "I don't know." "That depends on you." "Mama's waiting for me." "May I call on you?" "We're at home on Thursday as usual." "Today, then." "Au revoir!" "You said you wanted my advice on a delicate matter?" "Yes, Stiva." "I think I'm in love... but I'm plain and too old." "She may be able to love me as a friend, but I would'11 to be handsome and more remarkable to make her love me as a husband." "Who is the lucky girl?" "Can't you guess?" "I'11 be your brother-in-law." "Kitty." "Do you think there's any possibility?" "Oh, why shouldn't there be?" "For God's sake, be absolutely frank with me." "I'1l tell you something." "My wife Dolly is a most wonderful woman." "She can see through people." "What do you mean?" "Well, I mean, not only that she likes you, but she says Kitty is certain to be your wife." "They are sisters, after all." "She... she said that?" "Constantine Dmitrich Levin." "Oh, God." "He's come early." "I don't think I'11 come at the right time." "l'm too early." "Oh, no." "This is what I wanted... to find you alone." "The guests should be here in a moment." "I told you that I didn't know whether I would be here long... that it depended on you." "I meant... I meant do say... be my wife." "I cannot be." "Forgive me." "It was not meant to be." "Why, Constantine Dmitrich." "Do stay." "Have some tea." "Ah, Constantine Dmitrich." "Back in our corrupt Babylon." "Well, is Babylon reformed, or have you been corrupted?" "That you remembered my words so well." "They must have made an impression on you." "Of course. I note down everything you say." "What's the matter with Levin today?" "Why doesn't he launch into one of his tirades?" "Please." "Constantine Dmitrich." "How's it that at home in our village of Kaluga, the peasants have spent their all on drink and now pay us nothing?" "What is the meaning of that?" "You're always so full of praise for peasants." "Do let me introduce you." "Constantine Dmitrich Levin," "Count Alexei Kirillovich VronsKy." "Constantine Dmitrich despises and hates town and us townspeople." "Do you live in the country all year round?" "I should think it must be rather dull in winter." "Not at all if one has work to do." "Besides, you can't..." "be dull in your own company." "l like the country." "I'd be bored to tears." "One simply can't live without sophisticated conversation." "Countess Nordston was telling me about a demonstration of table rapping and spiritualism she attended." "Oh, that would be fascinating." "I'11 never seen anything supernatural." "Do you believe in spirits, Constantine Dmitrich?" "Why'11 you ask me that?" "You know perfectly well what my answer will be." "But I want to hear you opinion." "My opinion's that table rapping merely proves that the so-called educated classes are no better than the peasants." "They, too, believe in the evil eyes and spirits." "But I'11 witnessed it myself." "But don't you think there's something in it?" "If we admit to the existence of electricity of which we know nothing," "Why shouldn't there exist some newforces yet unknown to us?" "Because with electricity when you rub wool and resin together, you invariably produce a recognizable phenomenon." "But with this hocus-pocus..." "Suppose we try now." "Do let us try, Princess Kitty." "Ah, Stiva." "Who are you meeting?" "My mother." "You were missed last night." "Where?" "The Chateau des Fleurs, of course." "My God, there was this wonderful little girl doing the cancan." "I went home. I felt in such an agreeable frame of mind when I left the Scherbatskys?" "I didn't want to go anywhere else." ""By the mark of your steed, I can tell your fine breed and a young man in love by his eyes."" "And who are you meeting?" "l'11 come to meet a pretty woman." "Oh, indeed." "Shame on you." "My sister Anna." "Karenin's wife?" "Yes, well, you must know her." "I don't think so. I know Karenin by sight and by repute." "You'11 a very illustrious brother-in-law." "Very high up in the Ministry." "Yes, a remarkable man." "But not our kind." "Like your friend Levin. I met him last night, an insufferable fellow." "Oh, you don't appreciate my Levin." "But yesterday there was a reason for him being out of sorts." "You don't mean he, uh..." "Levin has been in love with Kitty for so long, and I feel so very sorry for him." "So that's it." "Excuse me." "You got my telegram?" "How are you?" "Well?" "Have a good journey, mama?" "Anna Arkadyevna!" "Can't youfind your brother?" "Stiva, here!" "She's very charming, isn't she?" "Poor girl." "Her husband refuses to travel with her." "He says he's too busy." "Well, Countess, you'11 met your son, I'11 met my brother." "Pardon me for not recognizing you, but I don't think we'11 ever met before." "Anna Arkadyevna has a little boy of 8, Seriozha." "They'11 never been parted before, and she's fretting at having left him behind." "Really, Anna, you can't expect never to leave him." "Well, good-bye, countess." "Good-bye, my dear." "Very charming." "Horrible." "He's dead." "It is a bad omen." "Nonsense." "You'11 come." "That is the chief thing." "You cannot imagine how much I'm counting on you." "Stiva, I know you're to blame." "Don't deny it." "9 years... my children... all to be thrown away because of a... momentary lapse." "True. lt was not nice that she was the children's governess." "What can I do?" "Drop me at your house and go back to the court." "is this Grisha?" "How he's grown!" "How happy and well you look." "He told me." "He met me at the station." "Grisha, go and find Tanya." "of course she's young, and she's pretty." "My youth and looks are gone, taken by him and his children." "I hate him." "I don't want to speak up for him, but what is the best thing to do in this dreadful situation, Dolly?" "Stiva is ashamed." "But he made love to her." "I don't excuse him, but... that's how it is." "Anna's mission to heal the rift in her brother's family was not unlike my own desire to restore the ties with my brother," "so desperate were we both to feel love." "Good evening." "Excuse me. ls Nikolai Levin here?" "There is a gentleman here, Nikolai Dmitrich." "Nikolai." "Kostya." "What is it?" "What do you want?" "I don't want anything." "I came to see you." "You're my brother." "This woman is my life's companion." "Maria Nikolayevna." "I took her out of a brothel." "But anyone who wants to know me must respect her, too." "All right, then, Masha, supper for 3, then." "with vodka and wine." "Your brother drinks too much." "Take no notice of her." "She's a whore." "You are a gentleman." "Nikolai, don't drink." "Leave me a..." "Leave me alone." "I'1l beat you." "How about supper, then?" "Have a drink." "Tell me how you do it." "Why aren't you married yet?" "Oh, no luck." "I think there must be something about me that repels people." "Why?" "For me, everything's over." "For you..." "Come back with me... to the country." "For the sake of your health." "No." "Too much to do." "I'11 become a communist." "Nikolai, the police." "They'1l persecute me like they do anyone who's not a scoundrel." "Here." "You want to fell magnanimous... feel righteous." "I'1l let you have that satisfaction." "Don?" "t think too badly of me, Kostya." "Mama, please." "Princess Kitty, may I ask you for the quadrille?" "I'm sorry, but I'm promised to count Vronsky, but you may have the second quadrille." "An honor, princess." "The master of ceremonies can never be refused." "It was nice of you to come in good time." "Such a bad habit to be late." "Where may I take you?" "Madame Karenina's over there, I think." "Will you take me to her, please?" "Pardon, mesdames, monsieurs, pardon." "You even dance into the room." "Princess Kitty's one of my most faithful helpers." "She adorns the ballroom and makes the ball gay." "May I have the pleasure?" "No. I never dance if I can help it." "Oh, but you must tonight." "Well, but if it's impossible not to dance, let us dance, then." "Well?" "Nothing." "Princess, you are such a delight." "is your card free for the mazurka?" "I should withdraw." "This is turning out absurdly." "Will you stay to supper?" "I have a wonderful cotillion in mind." "No, I won't stay. I'11 danced more at this ball than I have in a whole winter in Petersburg." "These few brief moments intoxicated Anna like a light pouring into the dark room that was her life." "We'11 stopped, mistress." "I want a breath of air." "What are you doing here?" "You know that I have come to be where you are." "I cannot help myself." "Forgive me if what I say offends you." "You shouldn't say that." "And I beg you, if you're a gentleman, to forget this as I willforget it." "Not one word... not one gesture of yours..." "Shall I... could I ever forget." "Stop it." "Yes, as you see, here is your devoted husband burning with impatience to see you." "is Seriozha all right?" "is that all the reward I get for my ardor?" "Yes, he's quite all right." "Did you have a good night?" "Excellent." "Thank you." "Ah, we'11 met before, I believe." "Count Vronsky." "You set off with the mother and return with the son." "Back from furlough, I presume." "So, my dear, how was Moscow?" "I hope I may have the honor of calling on you." "Delighted." "We're at home on Mondays." "I told you it was mama!" "I knew!" "Oh, my pet." "Gifts from Tanya and Grisha." "Tanya can read now, you know?" "She's even teaching Grisha." "is she nicer than me?" "To me you're nicer than anyone else in the world." "I know I am." "On the whole, then, your visit was a success?" "I cannot see how a man like that can be exonerated, even if he is your brother." "But I'm glad it all ended satisfactorily and that you're back again." "You wouldn't believe how irksome it is to dine alone." "I missed you, too." "Time for bed." "Betsy," "l'm beginning to lose hope." "Whatever hope could you have?" "None." "Excuse me. I'm afraid I'11 become ridiculous." "Oh, my dear, you're in no danger of that." "A man pursuing a young girl might be ridiculous, but a man in love with a married woman," "that has something fine and grand about it." "It could never be ridiculous." "Next you'll be telling me that young girls should be virtuous, women chaste, men virile, and children should be brought up to pay their debts and earn their bread and all the other nonsense." "But look at them..." "Karenin, that awful Lydia lvanovna." "So old-fashioned, so stuffy." "They surround her." "When I am old and ugly, I'1l become like them." "For a beautiful woman like Anna, it is too soon for her spirit to be crushed by such boredom." "We must rescue her before it is too late." "Come to my house on Saturday." "is it true that the younger Vlassiev girl is going to marry Topov?" "Yes, they say it's quite settled." "I am surprised at her parents." "I heard it was a love match." "A love match?" "What antediluvian ideas you have." "Who talks of love nowadays?" "That foolish old custom's not left us yet." "The only happy marriages are marriages of convenience where both parties have sown their wild oats." "In my young days, I was in love with a deacon." "I didn't know that it did me any good." "No, but joking apart." "I believe that before one can know what love really is, one must have a fall and pick oneself up again." "Even after marriage?" "It's never too late." "I'11 been wanting to tell you that you behaved badly, very badly, indeed." "You think I don't know that I behaved badly?" "But who made me?" "How can you say that?" "You know why." "That only shows you have no heart." "I came here tonight knowing that I would meet you to make it perfectly clear this must stop." "You make me feel as if I was guilty of something." "What do you want me to do?" "I want you to go to Moscow and..." "You don't want that." "Then do this for me." "Never utter those words again." "And let us be good friends." "Friends we shall never be." "You know that." "There is only one way we can be happy." "I have nothing left but you." "Remember that." "Nothing matters anymore..." "Not even life... for one moment of happiness like this." "Happiness?" "Don't ever speak of it again." "I have to warn you." "Warn me?" "What about?" "That by thoughtlessness and indiscretion, you may cause yourself to be talked about in society." "You're beginning to attract attention." "I'm sure they're only rumors." "You are always like that." "You don't like me to be dull, and then you don't like it when I go out and enjoy myself." "Stop it." "You Know I can't stand it." "And I would like to know what all this is about." "Your feelings are the affair of your own conscience, but I am duty-bound to point out to you your duties." "Our lives have been joined not by man but by God." "Only a crime can sever that union." "A crime of that nature brings its own heavy punishment." "I don't understand a thing you are saying." "And besides, I'm desperately sleepy." "Anna, for God's sake, don't speak like that." "Perhaps I am mistaken." "But believe me, what I say I say as much for my sake as for yours." "I am your husband, and I love you, but if" "there are the slightest grounds..." "l have nothing to say." "It is really bedtime." "Here it is." "Stupid miss with the right barrel." "Stiva?" "When's Kitty getting married?" "She isn't thinking about marriage." "She's very ill." "The doctors have sent her abroad." "Where's Vronsky now?" "He's in Petersburg." "He left shortly after you did." "And he's not been in Moscow once since then." "Do you know, Kostya, I'1l be frank with you." "It was your own fault." "You took fright at the sight of your rival." "Why didn't youfight it out?" "Kitty was never serious about him." "She was just attracted by his good looks." "I tell you candidly that when she returns from her cure, she'1l be going to Yergushovo for some quiet country life." "And that's not too far from here, Kostya, is it?" "I don't know if you know, but I don't care." "I'1l tell you." "I did make an offer... but I was rejected." "Now Kitty's nothing more than a painful, humiliating memory. lt's over." "I was hanging down that dark well, but the one thing I held onto was work." "I clutched it and clung to it with all my might." "once I lost my temper with a bailiff and in a fit of anger took a scythe and began mowing." "It calmed me," "So I resolved to mow with them... all day long." "As I mowed, I lost all count of time." "I had no idea whether it was late or early." "A change came about my work, which gave me intense satisfaction." "When I forgot what I was doing and mowed without effort," "My line was almost as smooth and good as Titus'." "More and more often now came those moments of oblivion." "When it was not my arms which swung the scythe, the scythe seemed to mow by itself." "Some externalforce seemed to propel me on, as though by magic... the work did itself regularly and carefully." "These were the most blessed moments." "It was she." "It was Kitty... on her way to Yergushovo." "Quiet, sweet." "Loot at her face, mama." "So spirited and yet so gentle." "I feel she could almost speak." "A fine horse." "Everybody's betting on you." "Not entirely for the right reasons." "What are you implying, mama?" "Don't be coy with me." "You must know how you'11 become the center of gossip." "An affair in the highest society puts a finishing touch to a brilliant young man." "Lord knows I shouldn't preach, but there are those who are becoming displeased with you, Alexei. I want you to break it off." "I will not have anyone cast doubt on the honor of my..." "Her honor is nonexistent." "So is yours." "I'11 been told you'11 refused a post in Moscow." "A promotion." "Mother, I would ask you respectfully not to pry." "You only get one chance at a career." "Why throw it all away on some passion?" "A brilliant, worldly liaison I would approve of, but not this desperate..." "Oh, if my love were some ordinary, vulgar society intrigue, you would leave me alone." "You have not the remotest idea what I feel." "I find the lying, the deceit, the scheming intolerable." "Then give her up." "I wasn't expecting you." "Gracious, what cold hands." "You startled me." "I'm waiting for Seriozha. I...he went out for a walk." "They'1l come back this way." "Forgive me. I couldn't go the day without seeing you." "But shouldn't you be preparing for the race?" "What were you thinking of?" "Please tell me." "Anna, what's the matter?" "I can see that something's wrong." "I'm going to have your baby." "Tell him everything and leave him." "Oh, my son." "You must be free of him!" "Free to become your mistress?" "When can I see you?" "When?" "Tonight. 1:00." "Well, I must be at the races." "Do you like horse racing?" "Good-bye." "Seriozha, there is no need to be so rude." "Papa told me always to be truthful." "Save your strength for the finish." "Fine." "Watch out for the water jump." "Are you riding today?" "Here we are!" "There is so much splendors here." "one's eyes are dazzled." "I will be staying the night." "I am sure you are glad we can be together." "We can go if you like." "I again offer you my arm if you want to be going." "I'm obliged to tell you that your behavior..." "What about my behavior?" "Be careful." "The despair you were unable to hide when one of the riders fell." "Possibly I am mistaken." "in that case, I beg your pardon." "I listen to you, but I'm thinking of him." "I love him and I'm his mistress." "I can't endure you, and I'm desperately unhappy." "You can do what you like with me." "is everything all right ma´am?" "What time is it?" "Almost midnight ma´am." "I've told my husband everything. I must see you." "Come at once to the house." "Count Vronsky!" "Ah, General Serpuhovsky!" "Brooding on your misfortune?" "It won't do at all." "Come on." "Let's go and have something to drink." "I heard news of your promotion. I was delighted and not a bit surprised." "I heard you refused an important post." "Men like you are wanted." "By whom?" "By Russia." "Russia needs men." "The communists are gathering force." "There're no such things as communists." "Scheming people always have to invent some dangerous, noxious party." "lt's an old trick." "Oh, well, I won't fight you." "Shall we go outside?" "I heard Therese is going to perform as lady Eve." "I like to see that kind of show with a gypsy girl on my knee." "l'm afraid I'11 an assignation." "Assignation?" "No, you don't Vronsky, old boy." "Karenin arrived this afternoon." "Saw him at the races." "I wouldn't keep that appointment." "I took the liberty of ordering you some brandy and cucumbers." "Drink the brandy." "Oh, and, this came for you." "Bad news?" "She's told him everything." "I must go to her." "What do you want?" "!" "Sit down!" "I have something to say to you." "I know I..." "I'11 done wrong and I'm..." "Whatever your conduct may have been, I don't consider myself justified in severing the ties through which a higher power has bound us." "I shall ignore it as long as the world knows nothing of it, as long as my name is not disgraced." "And therefore I simply warn you that our relations must remain as they'11 always been." "l can't be your wife while I..." "So you see nothing wrong with your infidelity yet refuse to perform the same duties for your husband!" "What do you want from me?" "I want you to never see him again!" "I want you to be a dutiful wife!" "I can't change what has happened." "Well, understand this." "I'1l go to Moscow. I will not return to this house again." "I'1l divorce you on the grounds of adultery." "My son will go to my sister's." "No." "You must leave me Seriozha." "You don't love him." "I'11 even lost affection for my son because he is associated with my loathing for you!" "But all the same, I shall take him." "You are a whore." "You have no legal rights." "Alexei Alexandrovitch, leave me Seriozha." "You know I can't live without him." "If you'1l conduct yourself so that neither society nor the servants can find anything to say against you, you can enjoy all the privileges of a respectable wife without fulfilling the duties of one." "and you may keep your son." "Late as usuaI.O" "You have a Iot of people here." "Who's here?" "Is Kitty here?" "e" "I never did quite believe that there was anything wrong with my lungs, but the seclusion and quiet of karIsbad were all helpful to me." "I Iearned how to help care for the other patients,a those with serious ailments,a and the work suited me.v" "I Iearned that there are so many more important..." "I saw you last summer.m" "Oh, you didn't see me, but I saw you.a" "Where?" "You were driving to Yergushovo." "My estate's on the way." "It was very early in the morning." "You were probably only just awake." "You had a splendid team of horses with bells." "YoufIashed by in a second.i" "I saw you through the window." "Your head was like this." "And you were playing with the ribbons of your cap,a thinking about something very deeply." "I wish I knew what you were thinking then." "really?" "s" "I don't remember.e" "Don't go." "I'11 a question I'11 been wanting to ask youfor a Iong time." "What is it?" "Here." "That's the first letters of the words." "What is that word?" "a" "Never." "Is it something I once said?" "a" "I know what it is." ""When you told me it could not be did that mean never...e" "...or then?"i" "I don't know.a" ""Then I couId not answer differently."" "only then?" "a" "He will have reached the church any moment now." "Word will come.g" "Oh!" "This is impossible!" "a" "Don't worry." "You´II just have to wear mine." "Yes, well, if I was going to do that, I should'11 done it a Iong time ago!" "Everything will turn out just fine." "Don't you worry.t" "I went out to buy a new shirt." "AII the shops were shut..." "I was beginning to think that you had made up your mind to run away." "What happened to me was so silly, I was..." "I'm ashamed to tell you.l" "Kitty should have stepped on the mat first." "Whoever does runs the househoId.i" "I did.i" "What about you, dolly?" "I don't remember.x" "Why on earth not?" "P" "I was so in Iove.a" "Sir, Madame Karenin miscarried last night." "My God, how is she?" "I" "Very bad." "The doctor is with her now." "Who is here?" "m" "Is... is she...d" "She has a very high fever.q" "Ana Arkadyevna, he has come.c" "Has Seriozha had his dinner?" "I Know they will allforget." "I am entirely in your hands.i" "He must be moved into the corner room...e" "Maria told to sleep with him." "I'm not afraid of you.e" "I know I'm dying now." "You ask him.e" "I feel it aIready.v" "I want only one thing..." "P for you to forgive me.m" "Forgive me completely.." "There is some hope.." "I must stay.e" "She may ask for me.." "I'11 long wanted to be revenged on you and her.d" "When I got the telegram." "I came here with the same sentiments." "But I saw her... and forgave her.a" "And the happiness of forgiving her revealed to me my duty.o" "I will not forsake her,a and I will never utter a word of reproach to you." "should she want to see you, I will let you know." "Now I think you'11 better Ieave.d" "Idiot!" "You had the misfortune to fall in love with man who's not your husband." "This is a misfortune, but this is a fact." "Your husband has forgiven you." "also a fact.f" "The question is,o can you go on living with your husband?" "Do you want to?" "And what does he want?" "I don't know." "I don't know at aII.e" "I feel I'm flying headlong over a precipice." "We´II catch you,o and we won't let youfaII.a" "There is nothing left for me, except for it to be all over." "Look at you.a" "I hardly know you with this short hair." "You'11 grown so pretty, but how pale you are." "I'm still very weak.o" "We´II go to ItaIy.p" "You´II soon get weII.c" "We´II live together as husband and wife." "You´II be ruined." "I resigned my commission." "Now all I want is you." "My dear friend,u you must not give way to your grief." "You willfind support, but seek it not in me,c though I beg youa to believe in our friendship.m" "I will set to work.." "I will be your housekeeper." "Don't thank me." "I do it not of myself." "How can I help thanking you?" "You mustr thank Him," "and ask for His heIp.d" "In Him alone can we find peace." "My dear, dear boy.a" "How unhappy you must be.o" "I'm quite well, countess." "Your poor father is...n to distraughte to tell you himself,." "so he's left it to me.o" "He is..." "a saint, you know?" "s" "Your mother... is dead.s" "Letters have arrived from town, Constantine Dmitrich.o" "You see, your lady's settled me here, told me to sit a little with her." "Here.e" "I opened your letter, too." "I think it's from that woman, your brother's, and this is a letter from home." "dolly took Grisha and Tanya to a children's party at the Sarmatskys?" "Tanya went as a French marquise.." "What's..." "what's the matter?" "My... my brother NikoIai is dying.a" "I..." "I must go to him I´II leave tomorrow." "Let's go." "Why didn't you let me know sooner?" "What is so awful for me... is that I can't help...s remembering him as he was when he was young." "you can't imagine what a charming boy he was." "But I didn't understand him then.a" "In infinite time...o in infinite matter... in infinite space... an organic cell stands out,o will hold together awhile... and then bursts.i" "And that cell is me." "I cannot live without knowing." "what I am and why I am here, and that I cannot know." "So, therefore, I have no reason to live." "What?" "I'm pregnant.n" "well, don't spare me now.D" "It's going to be perfection." "I'm not going to finish it." "Why?" "Why ever not?" "Because its defects will become more and more obvious." "I can't fool myself that I am an artist.a" "I am going to give it up." "I confess I hardly miss Seriozha at all." "But you do.u" "Yes.p" "Let's go back to Russia." "Karenin will grant us a divorce." "We´II get married, and we´II be together." "Oh, I was afraid you'11 say that." "I'm so unpardonable happy here, away from all of them, all of that." "I thought you were, too.b" "Being with youc is the realization of all my deepest desires,s but there is nothing I can do here." "I need a purpose.e" "That's what I Iike so much, having you all to myself." "Seriozha needs his mother.r" "Dear Lydia lvanovna,v" "Forgive me for reminding you of myself.r" "Count VronsKy and I are returning to St. Petersburg." "I am unhappy at being parted from my son." "I beg to be allowed to see him.i" "Will you send Seriozha to me, or should I come to the house at some fixed hour?" "You cannot conceive the yearning I have to see him and so can not conceive the gratitude your help will arouse in me." "Anna.a" "I don't think I can refuse her." "My dear friend, You never see evil in anybody.." "Her love for her son exacts..." "But is it love?"