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When Vronsky looked at his watch on the Karenins' balcony, he was

so greatly agitated and lost in his thoughts that he saw the

figures on the watch's face, but could not take in what tih road and walked, picking his way

carefully through the e He was so co for Anna, that he did not even think what

o'clock it was, and whether he had tio to Bryansky's He

had left him, as often happens, only the external faculty of

memory, that points out each step one has to take, one after the

other He went up to his coachthening, of a thick li over the hot horses, and,

waking the coache, and told hi nearly five miles

that he had sufficiently recovered himself to look at his watch,

and realize that it was half-past five, and he was late

There were several races fixed for that day: the Mounted Guards'

race, then the officers' mile-and-a-half race, then the

three-mile race, and then the race for which he was entered He

could still be in time for his race, but if he went to Bryansky's

he could only just be in time, and he would arrive when the whole

of the court would be in their places That would be a pity