Page 1365 - ANNA KARENINA

Anna Karenina

‘Oh, ja,’ answered the German. ‘Es it ein ganz
einfaches Ding,’ and he began to explain the construction
of the machine.
‘It’s a pity it doesn’t bind too. I saw one at the Vienna

exhibition, which binds with a wire,’ said Sviazhsky.
‘They would be more profitable in use.’
‘Es kommt drauf an.... Der Preis vom Draht muss
ausgerechnet werden.’ And the German, roused from his
taciturnity, turned to Vronsky. ‘Das laesst sich ausrechnen,
Erlaucht.’ The German was just feeling in the pocket
where were his pencil and the notebook he always wrote
in, but recollecting that he was at a dinner, and observing
Vronsky’s chilly glance, he checked himself. ‘Zu
compliziert, macht zu viel Klopot,’ he concluded.
‘Wuenscht man Dochots, so hat man auch Klopots,’
said Vassenka Veslovsky, mimicking the German. ‘J’adore
l’allemand,’ he addressed Anna again with the same smile.
‘Cessez,’ she said with playful severity.
‘We expected to find you in the fields, Vassily
Semyonitch,’ she said to the doctor, a sickly-looking man;
‘have you been there?’
‘I went there, but I had taken flight,’ the doctor
answered with gloomy jocoseness.
‘Then you’ve taken a good constitutional?’

1364 of 1759