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restlessly sta, quiet!" he said, patting her again over her

hind-quarters; and with a glad sense that his mare was in the

best possible condition, he went out of the horse-box

The mare's excitement had infected Vronsky He felt that his

heart was throbbing, and that he, too, like the ed to

move, to bite; it was both dreadful and delicious

"Well, I rely on you, then," he said to the Englishht," said the English,the title "my lord," which he had

scarcely ever used before

Vronsky in amazement raised his head, and stared, as he kne

to stare, not into the Englishman's eyes, but at his forehead,

astounded at the i this the English at hiot to go to Bryansky's; I shall be home within an hour"

"How often I'm asked that question today!" he said to hi which rarely happened to hih he, too, knehere Vronsky was going, he added: "The great thing's to keep quiet before a race," said he; "don't

get out of te"