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"All right," answered Vronsky, se, he told the man to drive to Peterhof

Before he had drivenrain all day broke, and there was a heavy

downpour of rain

"What a pity!" thought Vronsky, putting up the roof of the

carriage "It was muddy before, noill be a perfect swae, he took out his

h

Yes, it was the saain Everyone, his

ht fit to interfere in the

affairs of his heart This interference aroused in hi he had rarely known before "What

business is it of theirs? Why does everybody feel called upon to

concern himself about me? And why do they worrythey can't understand

If it were a coue, they would have

leftdifferent, that

this is not a mere pastime, that this woman is dearer to me than

life And this is incomprehensible, and that's why it annoys

them Whatever our destiny is or may be, we have made it

ourselves, and we do not co himself with Anna "No, they must needs teach us

how to live They haven't an idea of what happiness is; they

don't know that without our love, for us there is neither

happiness nor unhappiness--no life at all," he thought