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When Alexey Alexandrovitch reached the race-course, Anna was

already sitting in the pavilion beside Betsy, in that pavilion

where all the highest society had gathered She caught sight of

her husband in the distance Two men, her husband and her lover,

were the two centers of her existence, and unaided by her

external senses she are of their nearness She are

of her husband approaching a long way off, and she could not help

following hi crowd in the midst of which he was

ress towards the pavilion, saw hi bo

exchanging friendly, nonchalant greetings with his equals, now

assiduously trying to catch the eye of so round hat that squeezed the tips of

his ears All these ways of his she knew, and all were hateful

to her "Nothing but aet on,

that's all there is in his soul," she thought; "as for these

lofty ideals, love of culture, religion, they are only so lances towards the ladies' pavilion (he was staring

straight at her, but did not distinguish his wife in the sea of

muslin, ribbons, feathers, parasols and flowers) she saw that he

was looking for her, but she purposely avoided noticing him