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Vronsky had never had a real home life His mother had been in

her youth a brilliant society wo her

married life, and still more afterwards, many love affairs

notorious in the whole fashionable world His father he scarcely

rees

Leaving the school very young as a brilliant officer, he had at

once got into the circle of wealthy Petersburg ar society, his love

affairs had always hitherto been outside it

In Moscow he had for the first ti, all the charirl of his own rank, who cared for him It never

even entered his head that there could be any harm in his

relations with Kitty At balls he danced principally with her

He was a constant visitor at their house He talked to her as

people commonly do talk in society--all sorts of nonsense, but

nonsense to which he could not help attaching a specialto her that he could not

have said before everybody, he felt that she was beco more

and more dependent upon him, and the more he felt this, the

better he liked it, and the tenderer was his feeling for her He

did not know that his mode of behavior in relation to Kitty had a