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Karenins, husband and wife

"Anna is quite changed since her stay in Moscow There's

soreat change is that she brought back with her the shadow of

Alexey Vronsky," said the ambassador's wife

"Well, what of it? There's a fable of Grimm's about a man

without a shadow, a man who's lost his shadow And that's his

punish I never could understand hoas a

punish without a shadow"

"Yes, but women with a shadow usually come to a bad end," said

Anna's friend

"Bad luck to your tongue!" said Princess Myakaya suddenly

"Madame Karenina's a splendid woman I don't like her husband,

but I like her very much"

"Why don't you like her husband? He's such a remarkable man,"

said the ambassador's wife "My husband says there are few

statesmen like him in Europe"

"And my husband tells me just the same, but I don't believe it,"

said Princess Myakaya "If our husbands didn't talk to us, we

should see the facts as they are Alexey Alexandrovitch, to , is simply a fool I say it in a whisperbut doesn't

it reallyclear? Before, when I was told to

consider hiht

it; but directly I said, _he's a fool,_

though only in a whisper, everything's explained, isn't it?"