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creature far above everything earthly; and that he was a creature

so low and so earthly that it could not even be conceived that

other people and she herself could regard hi twoKitty almost every day in society, into which he went so

as to meet her, he abruptly decided that it could not be, and

went back to the country

Levin's conviction that it could not be was founded on the idea

that in the eyes of her faeous and

worthlessKitty, and that Kitty herself

could not love him In her family's eyes he had no ordinary,

definite career and position in society, while his contemporaries

by this time, when he was thirty-tere already, one a

colonel, and another a professor, another director of a bank and

railways, or president of a board like Oblonsky But he (he knew

very well how he entlea barns;

in other words, a fellow of no ability, who had not turned out

well, and as doing just what, according to the ideas of the

world, is done by people fit for nothing else