Anna Karenina - LimpidSoft

PART FOUR CHAPTER 4
“I came to tell you...” he said.
She glanced at him. “No, it was my fancy,” she thought, recalling the expression
of his face when he stumbled over the word “suffering.” “No; can a man with those
dull eyes, with that self-satisfied complacency, feel anything?”
“I cannot change anything,” she whispered.
“I have come to tell you that I am going tomorrow to Moscow, and shall not return
again to this house, and you will receive notice of what I decide through the lawyer
into whose hands I shall intrust the task of getting a divorce. My son is going to my
sister’s,” said Alexey Alexandrovitch, with an effort recalling what he had meant to
say about his son.
“You take Seryozha to hurt me,” she said, looking at him from under her brows.
“You do not love him.... Leave me Seryozha!”
“Yes, I have lost even my affection for my son, because he is associated with the
repulsion I feel for you. But still I shall take him. Goodbye!”
And he was going away, but now she detained him.
“Alexey Alexandrovitch, leave me Seryozha!” she whispered once more. “I have
nothing else to say. Leave Seryozha till my...I shall soon be confined; leave him!”
Alexey Alexandrovitch flew into a rage, and, snatching his hand from her, he went
out of the room without a word.
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