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definite character, that it is courting young girls with no

intention ofis one of the evil

actions co men such as he was It

seemed to him that he was the first who had discovered this

pleasure, and he was enjoying his discovery

If he could have heard what her parents were saying that evening,

if he could have put himself at the point ov view of the family

and have heard that Kitty would be unhappy if he did not reatly astonished, and would not have

believed it He could not believe that what gave such great and

delicate pleasure to hi

Still less could he have believed that he ought to e had never presented itself to him as a possibility He

not only disliked family life, but a family, and especially a

husband was, in accordance with the views general in the bachelor

world in which he lived, conceived as so alien, repellant,

and, above all, ridiculous

But though Vronsky had not the least suspicion what the parents

were saying, he felt on co away from the Shtcherbatskys' that

the secret spiritual bond which existed between hi that soht to be taken he could not iine