Anna Karenina - LimpidSoft

PART SEVEN CHAPTER 1
that he was pleased with her. She was pleased with herself. She had not expected
she would have had the power, while keeping somewhere in the bottom of her heart
all the memories of her old feeling for Vronsky, not only to seem but to be perfectly
indifferent and composed with him.
Levin flushed a great deal more than she when she told him she had met Vronsky
at Princess Marya Borissovna’s. It was very hard for her to tell him this, but still
harder to go on speaking of the details of the meeting, as he did not question her, but
simply gazed at her with a frown.
“I am very sorry you weren’t there,” she said. “Not that you weren’t in the room...I
couldn’t have been so natural in your presence...I am blushing now much more,
much, much more,” she said, blushing till the tears came into her eyes. “But that
you couldn’t see through a crack.”
The truthful eyes told Levin that she was satisfied with herself, and in spite of her
blushing he was quickly reassured and began questioning her, which was all she
wanted. When he had heard everything, even to the detail that for the first second
she could not help flushing, but that afterwards she was just as direct and as much at
her ease as with any chance acquaintance, Levin was quite happy again and said he
was glad of it, and would not now behave as stupidly as he had done at the election,
but would try the first time he met Vronsky to be as friendly as possible.
“It’s so wretched to feel that there’s a man almost an enemy whom it’s painful to
meet,” said Levin. “I’m very, very glad.”
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