Anna Karenina - LimpidSoft

PART FIVE CHAPTER 31
“So then we shan’t meet again?”
“Come and dine with me,” said Anna resolutely, angry it seemed with herself for
her embarrassment, but flushing as she always did when she defined her position
before a fresh person. “The dinner here is not good, but at least you will see him.
There is no one of his old friends in the regiment Alexey cares for as he does for
you.”
“Delighted,” said Yashvin with a smile, from which Vronsky could see that he
liked Anna very much.
Yashvin said good-bye and went away; Vronsky stayed behind.
“Are you going too?” she said to him.
“I’m late already,” he answered. “Run along! I’ll catch you up in a moment,” he
called to Yashvin.
She took him by the hand, and without taking her eyes off him, gazed at him while
she ransacked her mind for the words to say that would keep him.
“Wait a minute, there’s something I want to say to you,” and taking his broad
hand she pressed it on her neck. “Oh, was it right my asking him to dinner?”
“You did quite right,” he said with a serene smile that showed his even teeth, and
he kissed her hand.
“Alexey, you have not changed to me?” she said, pressing his hand in both of hers.
“Alexey, I am miserable here. When are we going away?”
“Soon, soon. You wouldn’t believe how disagreeable our way of living here is to
me too,” he said, and he drew away his hand.
“Well, go, go!” she said in a tone of offense, and she walked quickly away from
him.
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