Anna Karenina - LimpidSoft

PART SIX CHAPTER 31
The letter was what he had expected, but the form of it was unexpected, and particularly
disagreeable to him. “Annie is very ill, the doctor says it may be inflammation.
I am losing my head all alone. Princess Varvara is no help, but a hindrance. I
expected you the day before yesterday, and yesterday, and now I am sending to find
out where you are and what you are doing. I wanted to come myself, but thought
better of it, knowing you would dislike it. Send some answer, that I may know what
to do.”
The child ill, yet she had thought of coming herself. Their daughter ill, and this
hostile tone.
The innocent festivities over the election, and this gloomy, burdensome love to
which he had to return struck Vronsky by their contrast. But he had to go, and by
the first train that night he set off home.
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