Anna Karenina - LimpidSoft

PART ONE CHAPTER 20
“Oh, was he there?” asked Kitty, blushing. “What was it Stiva told you?”
“Stiva gossiped about it all. And I should be so glad...I traveled yesterday with
Vronsky’s mother,” she went on; “and his mother talked without a pause of him,
he’s her favorite. I know mothers are partial, but...”
“What did his mother tell you?”
“Oh, a great deal! And I know that he’s her favorite; still one can see how chivalrous
he is.... Well, for instance, she told me that he had wanted to give up all his
property to his brother, that he had done something extraordinary when he was
quite a child, saved a woman out of the water. He’s a hero, in fact,” said Anna,
smiling and recollecting the two hundred roubles he had given at the station.
But she did not tell Kitty about the two hundred roubles. For some reason it was
disagreeable to her to think of it. She felt that there was something that had to do
with her in it, and something that ought not to have been.
“She pressed me very much to go and see her,” Anna went on; “and I shall be
glad to go to see her tomorrow. Stiva is staying a long while in Dolly’s room, thank
God,” Anna added, changing the subject, and getting up, Kitty fancied, displeased
with something.
“No, I’m first! No, I!” screamed the children, who had finished tea, running up to
their Aunt Anna.
“All together,” said Anna, and she ran laughing to meet them, and embraced and
swung round all the throng of swarming children, shrieking with delight.
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