Anna Karenina - LimpidSoft

PART SIX CHAPTER 15
disgraced. But remembering what sufferings he and his wife had been through,
when he asked himself how he should act another time, he answered that he should
do just the same again.
In spite of all this, towards the end of that day, everyone except the princess, who
could not pardon Levin’s action, became extraordinarily lively and good humored,
like children after a punishment or grown-up people after a dreary, ceremonious
reception, so that by the evening Vassenka’s dismissal was spoken of, in the absence
of the princess, as though it were some remote event. And Dolly, who had inherited
her father’s gift of humorous storytelling, made Varenka helpless with laughter as
she related for the third and fourth time, always with fresh humorous additions, how
she had only just put on her new shoes for the benefit of the visitor, and on going
into the drawing room, heard suddenly the rumble of the trap. And who should be
in the trap but Vassenka himself, with his Scotch cap, and his songs and his gaiters,
and all, sitting in the hay.
“If only you’d ordered out the carriage! But no! and then I hear: ‘Stop!’ Oh, I
thought they’ve relented. I look out, and behold a fat German being sat down by
him and driving away.... And my new shoes all for nothing!...”
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