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He had been in Spain, and there had indulged in serenades and had

irl who played the land he had galloped in

a red coat over hedges and killed two hundred pheasants for a

bet In Turkey he had got into a harem; in India he had hunted

on an elephant, and now in Russia he wished to taste all the

specially Russian forms of pleasure

Vronsky, as, as it were, chief master of the ceremonies to

hie all the Russian aested by various persons to the prince They had race

horses, and Russian pancakes and bear hunts and three-horse

sledges, and gypsies and drinking feasts, with the Russian

acco

ease fell in with the Russian spirit, sirl on his knee, and see--what more, and does the whole Russian spirit consist in

just this?

In reality, of all the Russian entertainments the prince liked

best French actresses and ballet dancers and white-seal

chane Vronsky was used to princes, but, either because he

had hied of late, or that he was in too close

proximity to the prince, that week seemed fearfully wearisome to