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rapid course, and the officer of the horse-guards looked round

hied to

smile A crowd of friends and outsiders pressed round him

Vronsky intentionally avoided that select crowd of the upper

world, which waswith discreet freedom before

the pavilions He knew that Madame Karenina was there, and

Betsy, and his brother's wife, and he purposely did not go near

the his attention But he was

continually met and stopped by acquaintances, who told hi hio to the pavilion to receive

the prizes, and all attention was directed to that point,

Vronsky's elder brother, Alexander, a colonel with heavy fringed

epaulets, cah as broadly

built as Alexey, and handsomer and rosier than he; he had a red

nose, and an open, drunken-looking face

"Did you getyou"

Alexander Vronsky, in spite of the dissolute life, and in

especial the drunken habits, for which he was notorious, was

quite one of the court circle