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Next day at eleven o'clock in therailway to meet his reat flight of steps was

Oblonsky, as expecting his sister by the same train

"Ah! your excellency!" cried Oblonsky, "who, as everyone did who ether they ascended

the steps "She is to be here fro out for you till two o'clock last night Where

did you go after the Shtcherbatskys'?"

"Home," answered Vronsky "I must own I felt so well content

yesterday after the Shtcherbatskys' that I didn't care to go

anywhere"

"I know a gallant steed by tokens sure,

And by his eyes I know a youth in love," declaimed Stepan Arkadyevitch, just as he had done before to

Levin

Vronsky smiled with a look that seeed the subject

"And who?" he asked

"I? I've come to meet a pretty woman," said Oblonsky

"You don't say so!"

"_Honi soit qui mal y pense!_ My sister Anna"