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way of the hardships and difficulties of their position He

thought of nothing but that he would see her directly, not in

i, all of her, as she was in reality He

was just going in, stepping on his whole foot so as not to creak,

up the worn steps of the terrace, when he suddenly reot, and what caused theside of

his relations with her, her son with his questioning--hostile,

as he fancied--eyes

This boy was more often than anyone else a check upon their

freedom When he was present, both Vronsky and Anna did not

that they could not have

repeated before everyone; they did not even allow the the boy did not understand They had

reement about this, it had settled itself They would

have felt it wounding themselves to deceive the child In his

presence they talked like acquaintances But in spite of this

caution, Vronsky often saw the child's intent, bewildered glance

fixed upon hie shyness, uncertainty, at one time

friendliness, at another, coldness and reserve, in the boy's

h the child felt that between this man and

his nificance of

which he could not understand