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"I don't want to drive you away"

"Only don't change anything, leave everything as it is," he said

in a shaky voice "Here's your husband"

At that instant Alexey Alexandrovitch did in fact walk into the

roo at his wife and Vronsky, he went up to the lady of the

house, and sitting down for a cup of tea, began talking in his

deliberate, always audible voice, in his habitual tone of banter,

ridiculing someone

"Your Ra round at

all the party; "the graces and the muses"

But Princess Betsy could not endure that tone of his--

"sneering," as she called it, using the English word, and like a

skillful hostess she at once brought him into a serious

conversation on the subject of universal conscription Alexey

Alexandrovitch was ian seriously defending the new iainst

Princess Betsy, who had attacked it

Vronsky and Anna still sat at the little table

"This is getting indecorous," whispered one lady, with an

expressive glance at Madame Karenina, Vronsky, and her husband

"What did I tell you?" said Anna's friend