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After the conversation with Alexey Alexandrovitch, Vronsky went

out onto the steps of the Karenins' house and stood still, with

difficulty reht to walk

or drive He felt disgraced, hu away his hu which he had so proudly and lightly

walked till then All the habits and rules of his life that had

seemed so firm, had turned out suddenly false and inapplicable

The betrayed husband, who had figured till that time as a

pitiful creature, an incidental and somewhat ludicrous obstacle

to his happiness, had suddenly been su pinnacle, and on the pinnacle that

husband had shown hinant, not false, not

ludicrous, but kind and straightforward and large Vronsky could

not but feel this, and the parts were suddenly reversed Vronsky

felt his elevation and his own abasement, his truth and his own

falsehood He felt that the husband was nanimous even in his

sorrohile he had been base and petty in his deceit But this

sense of his own humiliation before the man he had unjustly

despised made up only a small part of his misery He felt

unutterably wretched now, for his passion for Anna, which had

see cooler, now that he knew he