Page 271 - ANNA KARENINA

Anna Karenina

Kitty an offer when he was here the last time? He told
Stiva so.’
‘Well, what then? I don’t understand..’
‘So did Kitty perhaps refuse him?... She didn’t tell you

so?’
‘No, she has said nothing to me either of one or the
other; she’s too proud. But I know it’s all on account of
the other.’
‘Yes, but suppose she has refused Levin, and she
wouldn’t have refused him if it hadn’t been for the other,
I know. And then, he has deceived her so horribly.’
It was too terrible for the princess to think how she had
sinned against her daughter, and she broke out angrily.
‘Oh, I really don’t understand! Nowadays they will all
go their own way, and mothers haven’t a word to say in
anything, and then..’
‘Mamma, I’ll go up to her.’
‘Well, do. Did I tell you not to?’ said her mother.

270 of 1759