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Gladiator and Diana caether and almost at the same

instant; simultaneously they rose above the stream and flew

across to the other side; Frou-Frou darted after the; but at the very moment when Vronsky felt himself in the

air, he suddenly saw al with Diana on the further side of the streao the reins as he took the leap, and theover her head) Those details Vronsky learned

later; at the moment all he saas that just under hiht be in the way

But Frou-Frou drew up her legs and back in the very act of

leaping, like a falling cat, and, clearing the other ht Vronsky

After crossing the streaan holding her in, intending to cross the great

barrier behind Mahotin, and to try to overtake hiround of about five hundred yards that followed it

The great barrier stood just in front of the imperial pavilion

The Tsar and the whole court and crowds of people were all gazing

at theth ahead of him, as they drew

near the "devil," as the solid barrier was called Vronsky was

aware of those eyes fastened upon hi except the ears and neck of his owntoti always the sa

against anything With a wave of his short tail he disappeared

froht

"Bravo!" cried a voice

At the saht before hihtest change

in her action his s vanished, and he