{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, yes, how was it now? Now, how was it? To be sure! Alabin was giving a dinner at Darmstadt; no, not Darmstadt, but something American. Yes, but then, Darmstadt was in America. Yes, Alabin was giving a dinner on glass tables, and the tables sang, Il mio tesoro—not Il mio tesoro though, but something better, and there were some sort of little decanters on the table, and they were women, too. Yes, it was nice, very nice. There was a great deal more that was delightful, only there’s no putting it into words, or even expressing it in one’s thoughts awake.", "pos": 2070}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Ah, ah, ah! Oo!... Yes, she won’t forgive me, and she can’t forgive me. And the most awful thing about it is that it’s all my fault—all my fault, though I’m not to blame. That’s the point of the whole situation. Oh, oh, oh!", "pos": 3356}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "What’s this? this?", "pos": 4500}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "It’s that idiotic smile that’s to blame for it all. But what’s to be done? What’s to be done?", "pos": 5608}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Oh, it’s awful! oh dear, oh dear! awful! And how well things were going up till now! how well we got on! She was contented and happy in her children; I never interfered with her in anything; I let her manage the children and the house just as she liked. It’s true it’s bad her having been a governess in our house. That’s bad! There’s something common, vulgar, in flirting with one’s governess. But what a governess! But after all, while she was in the house, I kept myself in hand. And the worst of it all is that she’s already ... it seems as if ill-luck would have it so! Oh, oh! But what, what is to be done? Then we shall see,", "pos": 6944}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Are there any papers from the office?", "pos": 8702}
{"speaker": "Matvey", "text": "On the table. They’ve sent from the carriage-jobbers.", "pos": 8831}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Why do you tell me that? don’t you know?", "pos": 9233}
{"speaker": "Matvey", "text": "I told them to come on Sunday, and till then not to trouble you or themselves for nothing,", "pos": 9411}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Matvey, my sister Anna Arkadyevna will be here tomorrow,", "pos": 9788}
{"speaker": "Matvey", "text": "Thank God! Alone, or with her husband? Alone. Is the room to be got ready upstairs?", "pos": 9969}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Inform Darya Alexandrovna: where she orders.", "pos": 10448}
{"speaker": "Matvey", "text": "Darya Alexandrovna?", "pos": 10495}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, inform her. Here, take the telegram; give it to her, and then do what she tells you.", "pos": 10554}
{"speaker": "Matvey", "text": "Yes, sir. Darya Alexandrovna told me to inform you that she is going away. Let him do—that is you—as he likes,", "pos": 10708}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Eh, Matvey?", "pos": 11277}
{"speaker": "Matvey", "text": "It’s all right, sir; she will come round,", "pos": 11318}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Come round?", "pos": 11375}
{"speaker": "Matvey", "text": "Yes, sir.", "pos": 11389}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Do you think so? Who’s there?", "pos": 11401}
{"speaker": "Matrona Philimonovna", "text": "It’s I,", "pos": 11511}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, what is it, Matrona? Well, what now?", "pos": 11656}
{"speaker": "Matrona Philimonovna", "text": "Go to her, sir; own your fault again. Maybe God will aid you. She is suffering so, it’s sad to see her; and besides, everything in the house is topsy-turvy. You must have pity, sir, on the children. Beg her forgiveness, sir. There’s no help for it! One must take the consequences....", "pos": 11995}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "But she won’t see me.", "pos": 12281}
{"speaker": "Matrona Philimonovna", "text": "You do your part. God is merciful; pray to God, sir, pray to God.", "pos": 12305}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Come, that’ll do, you can go. Well now, do dress me.", "pos": 12373}
{"speaker": "Tanya", "text": "I told you not to sit passengers on the roof, there, pick them up!", "pos": 18243}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "How is mamma? Good morning,", "pos": 18949}
{"speaker": "girl", "text": "Mamma? She is up,", "pos": 19271}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, is she cheerful?", "pos": 19401}
{"speaker": "girl", "text": "I don’t know. She did not say we must do our lessons, but she said we were to go for a walk with Miss Hoole to grandmamma’s.", "pos": 19725}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, go, Tanya, my darling. Oh, wait a minute, though,", "pos": 19864}
{"speaker": "little girl", "text": "For Grisha?", "pos": 20140}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, yes.", "pos": 20203}
{"speaker": "Matvey", "text": "The carriage is ready, but there’s someone to see you with a petition.", "pos": 20320}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Been here long?", "pos": 20408}
{"speaker": "Matvey", "text": "Half an hour.", "pos": 20453}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "How many times have I told you to tell me at once?", "pos": 20469}
{"speaker": "Matvey", "text": "One must let you drink your coffee in peace, at least,", "pos": 20522}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, show the person up at once,", "pos": 20667}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Ah, yes! To go, or not to go! It must be some time, though: it can’t go on like this,", "pos": 21398}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Dolly!", "pos": 24343}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "What do you want?", "pos": 24885}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Dolly! Anna is coming today.", "pos": 24949}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Well, what is that to me? I can’t see her!", "pos": 25023}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "But you must, really, Dolly....", "pos": 25079}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Go away, go away, go away!", "pos": 25113}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "My God! what have I done? Dolly! For God’s sake!... You know.... Dolly, what can I say?... One thing: forgive.... Remember, cannot nine years of my life atone for an instant.... —instant of passion?", "pos": 25639}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Go away, go out of the room! and don’t talk to me of your passion and your loathsomeness.", "pos": 26249}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Dolly! for mercy’s sake, think of the children; they are not to blame! I am to blame, and punish me, make me expiate my fault. Anything I can do, I am ready to do anything! I am to blame, no words can express how much I am to blame! But, Dolly, forgive me!", "pos": 26535}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "You remember the children, Stiva, to play with them; but I remember them, and know that this means their ruin. I think of the children, and for that reason I would do anything in the world to save them, but I don’t myself know how to save them. By taking them away from their father, or by leaving them with a vicious father—yes, a vicious father.... Tell me, after what ... has happened, can we live together? Is that possible? Tell me, eh, is it possible? after my husband, the father of my children, enters into a love affair with his own children’s governess?", "pos": 26981}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "But what could I do? what could I do?", "pos": 27837}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "You are loathsome to me, repulsive! Your tears mean nothing! You have never loved me; you have neither heart nor honorable feeling! You are hateful to me, disgusting, a stranger—yes, a complete stranger!", "pos": 27978}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "It is awful! awful! Dolly, one word more,", "pos": 28545}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "If you come near me, I will call in the servants, the children! They may all know you are a scoundrel! I am going away at once, and you may live here with your mistress!", "pos": 29072}
{"speaker": "Matvey", "text": "Matvey says she will come round; but how? I don’t see the least chance of it. Ah, oh, how horrible it is! And how vulgarly she shouted,", "pos": 29374}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "scoundrel mistress", "pos": 29569}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Matvey! Arrange everything with Darya in the sitting room for Anna Arkadyevna,", "pos": 30185}
{"speaker": "Matvey", "text": "Yes, sir. You won’t dine at home?", "pos": 30315}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "That’s as it happens. But here’s for the housekeeping. That’ll be enough.", "pos": 30451}
{"speaker": "Matvey", "text": "Enough or not enough, we must make it do,", "pos": 30578}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Ah, let me alone, let me alone! He has gone! But has he broken it off with her? Can it be he sees her? Why didn’t I ask him! No, no, reconciliation is impossible. Even if we remain in the same house, we are strangers—strangers forever! And how I loved him! my God, how I loved him!... How I loved him! And now don’t I love him? Don’t I love him more than before? The most horrible thing is,", "pos": 31286}
{"speaker": "Matrona Philimonovna", "text": "Let us send for my brother, he can get a dinner anyway, or we shall have the children getting nothing to eat till six again, like yesterday.", "pos": 32133}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Very well, I will come directly and see about it. But did you send for some new milk?", "pos": 32288}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "We have succeeded in getting the information from the government department of Penza. Here, would you care?... You’ve got them at last? Now, gentlemen.... If they knew, what a guilty little boy their president was half an hour ago.", "pos": 37012}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "We shall have time to finish after lunch,", "pos": 38294}
{"speaker": "Nikitin", "text": "To be sure we shall!", "pos": 38364}
{"speaker": "Grinevitch", "text": "A pretty sharp fellow this Fomin must be,", "pos": 38401}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Who was that came in?", "pos": 38686}
{"speaker": "doorkeeper", "text": "Someone, your excellency, crept in without permission directly my back was turned. He was asking for you. I told him: when the members come out, then....", "pos": 38735}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Where is he?", "pos": 38891}
{"speaker": "doorkeeper", "text": "Maybe he’s gone into the passage, but here he comes anyway. That is he,", "pos": 38906}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Why, it’s actually you, Levin, at last! How is it you have deigned to look me up in this den? Have you been here long?", "pos": 39561}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I have just come, and very much wanted to see you,", "pos": 39842}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, let’s go into my room,", "pos": 39971}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "We have long been expecting you. I am very, very glad to see you. Well, how are you? Eh? When did you come? Ah, to be sure, let me introduce you. My colleagues: Philip Ivanitch Nikitin, Mihail Stanislavitch Grinevitch a district councilor, a modern district councilman, a gymnast who lifts thirteen stone with one hand, a cattle-breeder and sportsman, and my friend, Konstantin Dmitrievitch Levin, the brother of Sergey Ivanovitch Koznishev.", "pos": 42685}
{"speaker": "Nikitin", "text": "Delighted,", "pos": 43687}
{"speaker": "Grinevitch", "text": "I have the honor of knowing your brother, Sergey Ivanovitch,", "pos": 43718}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, I am no longer a district councilor. I have quarreled with them all, and don’t go to the meetings any more,", "pos": 44123}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "You’ve been quick about it! But how? why?", "pos": 44267}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "It’s a long story. I will tell you some time. Well, to put it shortly, I was convinced that nothing was really done by the district councils, or ever could be. On one side it’s a plaything; they play at being a parliament, and I’m neither young enough nor old enough to find amusement in playthings; and on the other side it’s a means for the coterie of the district to make money. Formerly they had wardships, courts of justice, now they have the district council—not in the form of bribes, but in the form of unearned salary,", "pos": 44341}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Aha! You’re in a new phase again, I see—a conservative. However, we can go into that later.", "pos": 45067}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, later. But I wanted to see you,", "pos": 45189}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "How was it you used to say you would never wear European dress again? Ah! I see: a new phase.", "pos": 45337}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, where shall we meet? You know I want very much to talk to you,", "pos": 45879}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "I’ll tell you what: let’s go to Gurin’s to lunch, and there we can talk. I am free till three.", "pos": 45987}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No. I have got to go on somewhere else.", "pos": 46084}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "All right, then, let’s dine together.", "pos": 46172}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Dine together? But I have nothing very particular, only a few words to say, and a question I want to ask you, and we can have a talk afterwards.", "pos": 46212}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, say the few words, then, at once, and we’ll gossip after dinner.", "pos": 46359}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, it’s this, but it’s of no importance, though. What are the Shtcherbatskys doing? Everything as it used to be?", "pos": 46432}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "You said a few words, but I can’t answer in a few words, because.... Excuse me a minute.... No, you do as I told you. So do it that way, if you please, Zahar Nikititch.", "pos": 46837}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I don’t understand it, I don’t understand it,", "pos": 47782}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "What don’t you understand?", "pos": 47839}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I don’t understand what you are doing. How can you do it seriously?", "pos": 47984}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 48093}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Why, because there’s nothing in it.", "pos": 48104}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "You think so, but we’re overwhelmed with work.", "pos": 48142}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "On paper. But, there, you’ve a gift for it,", "pos": 48191}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "That’s to say, you think there’s a lack of something in me?", "pos": 48250}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Perhaps so. But all the same I admire your grandeur, and am proud that I’ve a friend in such a great person. You’ve not answered my question, though,", "pos": 48312}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Oh, that’s all very well. You wait a bit, and you’ll come to this yourself. It’s very nice for you to have over six thousand acres in the Karazinsky district, and such muscles, and the freshness of a girl of twelve; still you’ll be one of us one day. Yes, as to your question, there is no change, but it’s a pity you’ve been away so long.", "pos": 48553}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, why so?", "pos": 48894}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Oh, nothing. We’ll talk it over. But what’s brought you up to town?", "pos": 48939}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, we’ll talk about that, too, later on,", "pos": 49031}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "All right. I see. I should ask you to come to us, you know, but my wife’s not quite the thing. But I tell you what; if you want to see them, they’re sure now to be at the Zoological Gardens from four to five. Kitty skates. You drive along there, and I’ll come and fetch you, and we’ll go and dine somewhere together.", "pos": 49119}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Capital. So good-bye till then.", "pos": 49466}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Now mind, you’ll forget, I know you, or rush off home to the country!", "pos": 49500}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, truly!", "pos": 49613}
{"speaker": "Grinevitch", "text": "That gentleman must be a man of great energy,", "pos": 49764}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, my dear boy, he’s a lucky fellow! Over six thousand acres in the Karazinsky district; everything before him; and what youth and vigor! Not like some of us.", "pos": 49855}
{"speaker": "Grinevitch", "text": "You have a great deal to complain of, haven’t you, Stepan Arkadyevitch?", "pos": 50064}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Ah, yes, I’m in a poor way, a bad way,", "pos": 50138}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "I cannot admit it. I cannot in any case agree with Keiss that my whole conception of the external world has been derived from perceptions. The most fundamental idea, the idea of existence, has not been received by me through sensation; indeed, there is no special sense-organ for the transmission of such an idea.", "pos": 58987}
{"speaker": "Professor", "text": "Yes, but they—Wurt, and Knaust, and Pripasov—would answer that your consciousness of existence is derived from the conjunction of all your sensations, that that consciousness of existence is the result of your sensations. Wurt, indeed, says plainly that, assuming there are no sensations, it follows that there is no idea of existence.", "pos": 59407}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "I maintain the contrary,", "pos": 59745}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "According to that, if my senses are annihilated, if my body is dead, I can have no existence of any sort?", "pos": 59977}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "That question we have no right to answer as yet.", "pos": 60635}
{"speaker": "Professor", "text": "We have not the requisite data. No. I would point out the fact that if, as Pripasov directly asserts, perception is based on sensation, then we are bound to distinguish sharply between these two conceptions.", "pos": 60686}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Delighted that you’ve come. For some time, is it? How’s your farming getting on?", "pos": 61115}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Well, how is your district council doing?", "pos": 61982}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I really don’t know.", "pos": 62139}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "What! Why, surely you’re a member of the board?", "pos": 62162}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, I’m not a member now; I’ve resigned, and I no longer attend the meetings.", "pos": 62212}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "What a pity! That’s how it always is! We Russians are always like that. Perhaps it’s our strong point, really, the faculty of seeing our own shortcomings; but we overdo it, we comfort ourselves with irony which we always have on the tip of our tongues. All I say is, give such rights as our local self-government to any other European people—why, the Germans or the English would have worked their way to freedom from them, while we simply turn them into ridicule.", "pos": 62310}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But how can it be helped? It was my last effort. And I did try with all my soul. I can’t. I’m no good at it.", "pos": 62944}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "It’s not that you’re no good at it, it is that you don’t look at it as you should.", "pos": 63080}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Perhaps not,", "pos": 63191}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Oh! do you know brother Nikolay’s turned up again?", "pos": 63233}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "What did you say? How do you know?", "pos": 63548}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Prokofy saw him in the street.", "pos": 63612}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Here in Moscow? Where is he? Do you know?", "pos": 63645}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "I am sorry I told you. I sent to find out where he is living, and sent him his IOU to Trubin, which I paid. This is the answer he sent me.", "pos": 63766}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "I humbly beg you to leave me in peace. That’s the only favor I ask of my gracious brothers.—Nikolay Levin.", "pos": 64124}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "He obviously wants to offend me, but he cannot offend me, and I should have wished with all my heart to assist him, but I know it’s impossible to do that.", "pos": 64489}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, yes. I understand and appreciate your attitude to him; but I shall go and see him.", "pos": 64675}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "If you want to, do; but I shouldn’t advise it. As regards myself, I have no fear of your doing so; he will not make you quarrel with me; but for your own sake, I should say you would do better not to go. You can’t do him any good; still, do as you please.", "pos": 64783}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Very likely I can’t do any good, but I feel—especially at such a moment—but that’s another thing—I feel I could not be at peace.", "pos": 65067}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Well, that I don’t understand. One thing I do understand, it’s a lesson in humility. I have come to look very differently and more charitably on what is called infamous since brother Nikolay has become what he is ... you know what he did....", "pos": 65198}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, it’s awful, awful!", "pos": 65480}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "You mustn’t be excited, you must be calm. What’s the matter with you? What do you want? Be quiet, stupid,", "pos": 66803}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Is it possible I can go over there on the ice, go up to her?", "pos": 67799}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Ah, the first skater in Russia! Been here long? First-rate ice—do put your skates on.", "pos": 69064}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I haven’t got my skates,", "pos": 69152}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Have you been here long? Thank you,", "pos": 70694}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I? I’ve not long ... yesterday ... I mean today ... I arrived. I was meaning to come and see you,", "pos": 70842}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I didn’t know you could skate, and skate so well. Your praise is worth having. The tradition is kept up here that you are the best of skaters,", "pos": 71146}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, I used once to skate with passion; I wanted to reach perfection.", "pos": 71468}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "You do everything with passion, I think. I should so like to see how you skate. Put on skates, and let us skate together.", "pos": 71540}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Skate together! Can that be possible? I’ll put them on directly,", "pos": 71684}
{"speaker": "attendant", "text": "It’s a long while since we’ve seen you here, sir. Except you, there’s none of the gentlemen first-rate skaters. Will that be all right?", "pos": 71823}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, yes, yes; make haste, please. Yes, this now is life, this is happiness! Together, she said; let us skate together! Speak to her now? But that’s just why I’m afraid to speak—because I’m happy now, happy in hope, anyway.... And then?... But I must! I must! I must! Away with weakness!", "pos": 72074}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "With you I should soon learn; I somehow feel confidence in you,", "pos": 72935}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "And I have confidence in myself when you are leaning on me. Is there anything troubling you?—though I’ve no right to ask such a question,", "pos": 73018}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, why so?... No, I have nothing to trouble me. You haven’t seen Mlle. Linon, have you?", "pos": 73523}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Not yet.", "pos": 73665}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Go and speak to her, she likes you so much.", "pos": 73676}
{"speaker": "Mlle. Linon", "text": "Yes, you see we’re growing up, and growing old. Tiny bear has grown big now! Do you remember that’s what you used to call them? Now, go and skate, go and skate. Our Kitty has learned to skate nicely, hasn’t she?", "pos": 73951}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Surely you must be dull in the country in the winter, aren’t you?", "pos": 74832}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, I’m not dull, I am very busy,", "pos": 74910}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Are you going to stay in town long?", "pos": 75123}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I don’t know,", "pos": 75183}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "How is it you don’t know?", "pos": 75450}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I don’t know. It depends upon you. My God! what have I done! Merciful God! help me, guide me. Ah, that’s a new trick!", "pos": 75478}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Don’t break your neck! it needs practice!", "pos": 76492}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "How splendid, how nice he is! And can it be my fault, can I have done anything wrong? They talk of flirtation. I know it’s not he that I love; but still I am happy with him, and he’s so jolly. Only, why did he say that?...", "pos": 76864}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Delighted to see you. On Thursdays we are home, as always.", "pos": 77524}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Today, then?", "pos": 77618}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "We shall be pleased to see you,", "pos": 77633}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Good-bye till this evening.", "pos": 77839}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, shall we set off? I’ve been thinking about you all this time, and I’m very, very glad you’ve come,", "pos": 78266}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, come along,", "pos": 78442}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "To the England or the Hermitage?", "pos": 78615}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I don’t mind which.", "pos": 78650}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "All right, then, the England. Have you got a sledge? That’s first-rate, for I sent my carriage home. You like turbot, don’t you?", "pos": 78672}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Eh? Turbot? Yes, I’m awfully fond of turbot.", "pos": 79469}
{"speaker": "Tatar waiter", "text": "This way, your excellency, please. Your excellency won’t be disturbed here. Walk in, your excellency. If you prefer it, your excellency, a private room will be free directly; Prince Golistin with a lady. Fresh oysters have come in.", "pos": 80668}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Ah! oysters. How if we were to change our program, Levin? Are the oysters good? Mind now.", "pos": 81404}
{"speaker": "Tatar waiter", "text": "They’re Flensburg, your excellency. We’ve no Ostend.", "pos": 81631}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Flensburg will do, but are they fresh?", "pos": 81686}
{"speaker": "Tatar waiter", "text": "Only arrived yesterday.", "pos": 81727}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, then, how if we were to begin with oysters, and so change the whole program? Eh?", "pos": 81753}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "It’s all the same to me. I should like cabbage soup and porridge better than anything; but of course there’s nothing like that here.", "pos": 81842}
{"speaker": "Tatar waiter", "text": "Porridge à la Russe, your honor would like?", "pos": 81977}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, joking apart, whatever you choose is sure to be good. I’ve been skating, and I’m hungry. And don’t imagine, that I shan’t appreciate your choice. I am fond of good things.", "pos": 82096}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "I should hope so! After all, it’s one of the pleasures of life. Well, then, my friend, you give us two—or better say three—dozen oysters, clear soup with vegetables....", "pos": 82342}
{"speaker": "Tatar waiter", "text": "Printanière,", "pos": 82541}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "With vegetables in it, you know. Then turbot with thick sauce, then ... roast beef; and mind it’s good. Yes, and capons, perhaps, and then sweets.", "pos": 82696}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "What shall we drink?", "pos": 83349}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "What you like, only not too much. Champagne,", "pos": 83372}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "What! to start with? You’re right though, I dare say. Do you like the white seal?", "pos": 83431}
{"speaker": "Tatar waiter", "text": "Cachet blanc,", "pos": 83515}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Very well, then, give us that brand with the oysters, and then we’ll see.", "pos": 83551}
{"speaker": "Tatar waiter", "text": "Yes, sir. And what table wine?", "pos": 83627}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "You can give us Nuits. Oh, no, better the classic Chablis.", "pos": 83660}
{"speaker": "Tatar waiter", "text": "Yes, sir. And your cheese, your excellency?", "pos": 83721}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Oh, yes, Parmesan. Or would you like another?", "pos": 83767}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, it’s all the same to me,", "pos": 83815}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Not bad. Not bad. You don’t care much for oysters, do you? or you’re worried about something. Eh?", "pos": 84190}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I? Yes, I am; but besides, all this bothers me. You can’t conceive how queer it all seems to a country person like me, as queer as that gentleman’s nails I saw at your place....", "pos": 85284}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, I saw how much interested you were in poor Grinevitch’s nails,", "pos": 85475}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "It’s too much for me. Do try, now, and put yourself in my place, take the point of view of a country person. We in the country try to bring our hands into such a state as will be most convenient for working with. So we cut our nails; sometimes we turn up our sleeves. And here people purposely let their nails grow as long as they will, and link on small saucers by way of studs, so that they can do nothing with their hands.", "pos": 85581}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Oh, yes, that’s just a sign that he has no need to do coarse work. His work is with the mind....", "pos": 86062}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Maybe. But still it’s queer to me, just as at this moment it seems queer to me that we country folks try to get our meals over as soon as we can, so as to be ready for our work, while here are we trying to drag out our meal as long as possible, and with that object eating oysters....", "pos": 86161}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Why, of course. But that’s just the aim of civilization—to make everything a source of enjoyment.", "pos": 86448}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, if that’s its aim, I’d rather be a savage.", "pos": 86580}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "And so you are a savage. All you Levins are savages. Oh, I say, are you going tonight to our people, the Shtcherbatskys’, I mean?", "pos": 86631}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, I shall certainly go, though I fancied the princess was not very warm in her invitation.", "pos": 87049}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "What nonsense! That’s her manner.... Come, boy, the soup!... That’s her manner—grande dame. I’m coming, too, but I have to go to the Countess Bonina’s rehearsal. Come, isn’t it true that you’re a savage? How do you explain the sudden way in which you vanished from Moscow? The Shtcherbatskys were continually asking me about you, as though I ought to know. The only thing I know is that you always do what no one else does.", "pos": 87162}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, you’re right. I am a savage. Only, my savageness is not in having gone away, but in coming now. Now I have come....", "pos": 87616}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Oh, what a lucky fellow you are!", "pos": 87778}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Why?", "pos": 87870}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "‘I know a gallant steed by tokens sure. And by his eyes I know a youth in love,’ Everything is before you.", "pos": 87878}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Why, is it over for you already?", "pos": 88019}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "No; not over exactly, but the future is yours, and the present is mine, and the present—well, it’s not all that it might be.", "pos": 88054}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "How so?", "pos": 88181}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Oh, things go wrong. But I don’t want to talk of myself, and besides I can’t explain it all. Well, why have you come to Moscow, then?... Hi! take away!", "pos": 88191}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "You guess?", "pos": 88397}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "I guess, but I can’t be the first to talk about it. You can see by that whether I guess right or wrong,", "pos": 88491}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, and what have you to say to me? How do you look at the question?", "pos": 88660}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "I? there’s nothing I desire so much as that—nothing! It would be the best thing that could be.", "pos": 88919}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But you’re not making a mistake? You know what we’re speaking of? You think it’s possible?", "pos": 89044}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "I think it’s possible. Why not possible?", "pos": 89179}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No! do you really think it’s possible? No, tell me all you think! Oh, but if ... if refusal’s in store for me!... Indeed I feel sure....", "pos": 89222}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Why should you think that?", "pos": 89361}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "It seems so to me sometimes. That will be awful for me, and for her too.", "pos": 89443}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Oh, well, anyway there’s nothing awful in it for a girl. Every girl’s proud of an offer.", "pos": 89518}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, every girl, but not she.", "pos": 89609}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Stay, take some sauce,", "pos": 89997}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, stop a minute, stop a minute. You must understand that it’s a question of life and death for me. I have never spoken to anyone of this. And there’s no one I could speak of it to, except you. You know we’re utterly unlike each other, different tastes and views and everything; but I know you’re fond of me and understand me, and that’s why I like you awfully. But for God’s sake, be quite straightforward with me.", "pos": 90189}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "I tell you what I think. But I’ll say more: my wife is a wonderful woman.... She has a gift of foreseeing things. She sees right through people; but that’s not all; she knows what will come to pass, especially in the way of marriages. She foretold, for instance, that Princess Shahovskaya would marry Brenteln. No one would believe it, but it came to pass. And she’s on your side.", "pos": 90618}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "How do you mean?", "pos": 91147}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "It’s not only that she likes you—she says that Kitty is certain to be your wife.", "pos": 91166}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "She says that! I always said she was exquisite, your wife. There, that’s enough, enough said about it,", "pos": 91350}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "All right, but do sit down.", "pos": 91505}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "You must understand, it’s not love. I’ve been in love, but it’s not that. It’s not my feeling, but a sort of force outside me has taken possession of me. I went away, you see, because I made up my mind that it could never be, you understand, as a happiness that does not come on earth; but I’ve struggled with myself, I see there’s no living without it. And it must be settled.", "pos": 91728}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What did you go away for?", "pos": 92119}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Ah, stop a minute! Ah, the thoughts that come crowding on one! The questions one must ask oneself! Listen. You can’t imagine what you’ve done for me by what you said. I’m so happy that I’ve become positively hateful; I’ve forgotten everything. I heard today that my brother Nikolay ... you know, he’s here ... I had even forgotten him. It seems to me that he’s happy too. It’s a sort of madness. But one thing’s awful.... Here, you’ve been married, you know the feeling ... it’s awful that we—old—with a past ... not of love, but of sins ... are brought all at once so near to a creature pure and innocent; it’s loathsome, and that’s why one can’t help feeling oneself unworthy.", "pos": 92147}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, well, you’ve not many sins on your conscience.", "pos": 92828}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Alas! all the same, when with loathing I go over my life, I shudder and curse and bitterly regret it.... Yes.", "pos": 92881}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "What would you have? The world’s made so,", "pos": 93007}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Forgive me not according to my unworthiness, but according to Thy loving-kindness. That’s the only way she can forgive me.", "pos": 93137}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "There’s one other thing I ought to tell you. Do you know Vronsky?", "pos": 93333}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, I don’t. Why do you ask?", "pos": 93434}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Give us another bottle. Why you ought to know Vronsky is that he’s one of your rivals.", "pos": 93465}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Who’s Vronsky?", "pos": 93683}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Vronsky is one of the sons of Count Kirill Ivanovitch Vronsky, and one of the finest specimens of the gilded youth of Petersburg. I made his acquaintance in Tver when I was there on official business, and he came there for the levy of recruits. Fearfully rich, handsome, great connections, an aide-de-camp, and with all that a very nice, good-natured fellow. But he’s more than simply a good-natured fellow, as I’ve found out here—he’s a cultivated man, too, and very intelligent; he’s a man who’ll make his mark. Well, he turned up here soon after you’d gone, and as I can see, he’s over head and ears in love with Kitty, and you know that her mother....", "pos": 93862}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Excuse me, but I know nothing,", "pos": 94550}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "You wait a bit, wait a bit. I’ve told you what I know, and I repeat that in this delicate and tender matter, as far as one can conjecture, I believe the chances are in your favor.", "pos": 94721}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But I would advise you to settle the thing as soon as may be. No, thanks, I can’t drink any more. I shall be drunk.... Come, tell me how are you getting on?", "pos": 95014}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "One word more: in any case I advise you to settle the question soon. Tonight I don’t advise you to speak. Go round tomorrow morning, make an offer in due form, and God bless you....", "pos": 95311}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, do you still think of coming to me for some shooting? Come next spring, do,", "pos": 95523}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "I’ll come some day. But women, my boy, they’re the pivot everything turns upon. Things are in a bad way with me, very bad. And it’s all through women. Tell me frankly now, give me your advice.", "pos": 95935}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Why, what is it?", "pos": 96209}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "I’ll tell you. Suppose you’re married, you love your wife, but you’re fascinated by another woman....", "pos": 96228}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Excuse me, but I’m absolutely unable to comprehend how ... just as I can’t comprehend how I could now, after my dinner, go straight to a baker’s shop and steal a roll.", "pos": 96332}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Why not? A roll will sometimes smell so good one can’t resist it. Himmlisch ist’s, wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn’s nich gelungen Hatt’ ich auch recht hübsch Plaisir! Yes, but joking apart, you must understand that the woman is a sweet, gentle loving creature, poor and lonely, and has sacrificed everything. Now, when the thing’s done, don’t you see, can one possibly cast her off? Even supposing one parts from her, so as not to break up one’s family life, still, can one help feeling for her, setting her on her feet, softening her lot?", "pos": 96555}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, you must excuse me there. You know to me all women are divided into two classes ... at least no ... truer to say: there are women and there are ... I’ve never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that painted Frenchwoman at the counter with the ringlets are vermin to my mind, and all fallen women are the same. Ah, drop that! Christ would never have said those words if He had known how they would be abused. Of all the Gospel those words are the only ones remembered. However, I’m not saying so much what I think, as what I feel. I have a loathing for fallen women. You’re afraid of spiders, and I of these vermin. Most likely you’ve not made a study of spiders and don’t know their character; and so it is with me.", "pos": 97246}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "It’s very well for you to talk like that; it’s very much like that gentleman in Dickens who used to fling all difficult questions over his right shoulder. But to deny the facts is no answer. What’s to be done—you tell me that, what’s to be done? Your wife gets older, while you’re full of life. Before you’ve time to look round, you feel that you can’t love your wife with love, however much you may esteem her. And then all at once love turns up, and you’re done for, done for. But what’s to be done?", "pos": 98037}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Don’t steal rolls.", "pos": 98649}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Oh, moralist! But you must understand, there are two women; one insists only on her rights, and those rights are your love, which you can’t give her; and the other sacrifices everything for you and asks for nothing. What are you to do? How are you to act? There’s a fearful tragedy in it.", "pos": 98708}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "If you care for my profession of faith as regards that, I’ll tell you that I don’t believe there was any tragedy about it. And this is why. To my mind, love ... both the sorts of love, which you remember Plato defines in his Banquet, served as the test of men. Some men only understand one sort, and some only the other. And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy. ‘I’m much obliged for the gratification, my humble respects’—that’s all the tragedy. And in platonic love there can be no tragedy, because in that love all is clear and pure, because.... But perhaps you are right. Very likely ... I don’t know, I don’t know.", "pos": 98999}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Why, has he been here long?", "pos": 109960}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "He came today, mamma.", "pos": 110045}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "There’s one thing I want to say....", "pos": 110069}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Mamma, please, please don’t say anything about that. I know, I know all about it.", "pos": 110196}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "I only want to say that to raise hopes....", "pos": 110430}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Mamma, darling, for goodness’ sake, don’t talk about it. It’s so horrible to talk about it.", "pos": 110475}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "I won’t, but one thing, my love; you promised me you would have no secrets from me. You won’t?", "pos": 110569}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Never, mamma, none, but there’s no use in my telling you anything, and I ... I ... if I wanted to, I don’t know what to say or how.... I don’t know....", "pos": 110726}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Konstantin Dmitrievitch Levin.", "pos": 112872}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "My God! shall I myself really have to say it to him? Can I tell him I don’t love him? That will be a lie. What am I to say to him? That I love someone else? No, that’s impossible. I’m going away, I’m going away. No! it’s not honest. What have I to be afraid of? I have done nothing wrong. What is to be, will be! I’ll tell the truth. And with him one can’t be ill at ease. Here he is,", "pos": 113680}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "It’s not time yet; I think I’m too early,", "pos": 114317}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, no,", "pos": 114534}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But this was just what I wanted, to find you alone,", "pos": 114583}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Mamma will be down directly. She was very much tired.... Yesterday....", "pos": 114716}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I told you I did not know whether I should be here long ... that it depended on you.... That it depended on you. I meant to say ... I meant to say ... I came for this ... to be my wife!", "pos": 114958}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "That cannot be ... forgive me.", "pos": 115759}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "It was bound to be so,", "pos": 115927}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Thank God, she has refused him,", "pos": 116244}
{"speaker": "Countess Nordston", "text": "I do like it when he looks down at me from the height of his grandeur, or breaks off his learned conversation with me because I’m a fool, or is condescending to me. I like that so; to see him condescending! I am so glad he can’t bear me,", "pos": 117156}
{"speaker": "Countess Nordston", "text": "Ah, Konstantin Dmitrievitch! So you’ve come back to our corrupt Babylon. Come, is Babylon reformed, or have you degenerated?", "pos": 117983}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "It’s very flattering for me, countess, that you remember my words so well. They must certainly make a great impression on you.", "pos": 118289}
{"speaker": "Countess Nordston", "text": "Oh, I should think so! I always note them all down. Well, Kitty, have you been skating again?...", "pos": 118575}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Shall you be long in Moscow? You’re busy with the district council, though, aren’t you, and can’t be away for long?", "pos": 119020}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, princess, I’m no longer a member of the council. I have come up for a few days.", "pos": 119138}
{"speaker": "Countess Nordston", "text": "There’s something the matter with him. He isn’t in his old argumentative mood. But I’ll draw him out. I do love making a fool of him before Kitty, and I’ll do it. Konstantin Dmitrievitch, do explain to me, please, what’s the meaning of it. You know all about such things. At home in our village of Kaluga all the peasants and all the women have drunk up all they possessed, and now they can’t pay us any rent. What’s the meaning of that? You always praise the peasants so.", "pos": 119235}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Excuse me, countess, but I really know nothing about it, and can’t tell you anything. That must be Vronsky,", "pos": 119864}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Let me introduce you. Konstantin Dmitrievitch Levin, Count Alexey Kirillovitch Vronsky.", "pos": 121776}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I believe I was to have dined with you this winter, but you had unexpectedly left for the country.", "pos": 121975}
{"speaker": "Countess Nordston", "text": "Konstantin Dmitrievitch despises and hates town and us townspeople,", "pos": 122122}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "My words must make a deep impression on you, since you remember them so well,", "pos": 122216}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Are you always in the country? I should think it must be dull in the winter.", "pos": 122449}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "It’s not dull if one has work to do; besides, one’s not dull by oneself,", "pos": 122543}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I am fond of the country,", "pos": 122642}
{"speaker": "Countess Nordston", "text": "But I hope, count, you would not consent to live in the country always,", "pos": 122737}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I don’t know; I have never tried for long. I experienced a queer feeling once. I never longed so for the country, Russian country, with bast shoes and peasants, as when I was spending a winter with my mother in Nice. Nice itself is dull enough, you know. And indeed, Naples and Sorrento are only pleasant for a short time. And it’s just there that Russia comes back to me most vividly, and especially the country. It’s as though....", "pos": 122835}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Ah, countess, you really must take me, for pity’s sake do take me to see them! I have never seen anything extraordinary, though I am always on the lookout for it everywhere,", "pos": 124239}
{"speaker": "Countess Nordston", "text": "Very well, next Saturday. But you, Konstantin Dmitrievitch, do you believe in it?", "pos": 124438}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Why do you ask me? You know what I shall say.", "pos": 124569}
{"speaker": "Countess Nordston", "text": "But I want to hear your opinion.", "pos": 124617}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "My opinion, is only that this table-turning simply proves that educated society—so called—is no higher than the peasants. They believe in the evil eye, and in witchcraft and omens, while we....", "pos": 124652}
{"speaker": "Countess Nordston", "text": "Oh, then you don’t believe in it?", "pos": 124866}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I can’t believe in it, countess.", "pos": 124902}
{"speaker": "Countess Nordston", "text": "But if I’ve seen it myself?", "pos": 124937}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "The peasant women too tell us they have seen goblins.", "pos": 124967}
{"speaker": "Countess Nordston", "text": "Then you think I tell a lie?", "pos": 125023}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, no, Masha, Konstantin Dmitrievitch said he could not believe in it,", "pos": 125089}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "You do not admit the conceivability at all? But why not? We admit the existence of electricity, of which we know nothing. Why should there not be some new force, still unknown to us, which....", "pos": 125394}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "When electricity was discovered, it was only the phenomenon that was discovered, and it was unknown from what it proceeded and what were its effects, and ages passed before its applications were conceived. But the spiritualists have begun with tables writing for them, and spirits appearing to them, and have only later started saying that it is an unknown force.", "pos": 125603}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Yes, but the spiritualists say we don’t know at present what this force is, but there is a force, and these are the conditions in which it acts. Let the scientific men find out what the force consists in. No, I don’t see why there should not be a new force, if it....", "pos": 126099}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Why, because with electricity, every time you rub tar against wool, a recognized phenomenon is manifested, but in this case it does not happen every time, and so it follows it is not a natural phenomenon.", "pos": 126369}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Do let us try at once, countess,", "pos": 126814}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I think,", "pos": 126904}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "that this attempt of the spiritualists to explain their marvels as some sort of new natural force is most futile. They boldly talk of spiritual force, and then try to subject it to material experiment.", "pos": 126927}
{"speaker": "Countess Nordston", "text": "And I think you would be a first-rate medium, there’s something enthusiastic in you.", "pos": 127187}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Do let us try table-turning at once, please. Princess, will you allow it?", "pos": 127380}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "If you can forgive me, forgive me. I am so happy.", "pos": 127720}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I hate them all, and you, and myself,", "pos": 127789}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Ah! Been here long, my boy? I didn’t even know you were in town. Very glad to see you.", "pos": 128076}
{"speaker": "Countess Nordston", "text": "Prince, let us have Konstantin Dmitrievitch, we want to try an experiment.", "pos": 128676}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "What experiment? Table-turning? Well, you must excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, but to my mind it is better fun to play the ring game. There’s some sense in that, anyway.", "pos": 128779}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I hope you will be there?", "pos": 129228}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I’m sorry, I’m sorry; but what could I do? It’s not my fault. Lord, have pity on us; Lord, have pity on us; Lord, have pity on us!", "pos": 130446}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "What? I’ll tell you what! That you’ve no pride, no dignity; that you’re disgracing, ruining your daughter by this vulgar, stupid matchmaking!", "pos": 130993}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "But, really, for mercy’s sake, prince, what have I done?", "pos": 131247}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "What have you done? I’ll tell you what. First of all, you’re trying to catch an eligible gentleman, and all Moscow will be talking of it, and with good reason. If you have evening parties, invite everyone, don’t pick out the possible suitors. Invite all the young bucks. Engage a piano player, and let them dance, and not as you do things nowadays, hunting up good matches. It makes me sick, sick to see it, and you’ve gone on till you’ve turned the poor wench’s head. Levin’s a thousand times the better man. As for this little Petersburg swell, they’re turned out by machinery, all on one pattern, and all precious rubbish. But if he were a prince of the blood, my daughter need not run after anyone.", "pos": 131817}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "But what have I done?", "pos": 132522}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Why, you’ve....", "pos": 132546}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "I know if one were to listen to you, we should never marry our daughter. If it’s to be so, we’d better go into the country.", "pos": 132598}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Well, and we had better.", "pos": 132752}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "But do wait a minute. Do I try and catch them? I don’t try to catch them in the least. A young man, and a very nice one, has fallen in love with her, and she, I fancy....", "pos": 132779}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Oh, yes, you fancy! And how if she really is in love, and he’s no more thinking of marriage than I am!... Oh, that I should live to see it! Ah! spiritualism! Ah! Nice! Ah! the ball! And this is how we’re preparing wretchedness for Kitty; and she’s really got the notion into her head....", "pos": 132952}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "But what makes you suppose so?", "pos": 133339}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "I don’t suppose; I know. We have eyes for such things, though women-folk haven’t. I see a man who has serious intentions, that’s Levin: and I see a peacock, like this feather-head, who’s only amusing himself.", "pos": 133372}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Oh, well, when once you get an idea into your head!...", "pos": 133583}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Well, you’ll remember my words, but too late, just as with Dolly.", "pos": 133640}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Well, well, we won’t talk of it,", "pos": 133708}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "By all means, and good-night!", "pos": 133801}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "what is so exquisite, what is so exquisite is that not a word has been said by me or by her, but we understand each other so well in this unseen language of looks and tones, that this evening more clearly than ever she told me she loves me. And how secretly, simply, and most of all, how trustfully! I feel myself better, purer. I feel that I have a heart, and that there is a great deal of good in me. Those sweet, loving eyes! When she said: ‘Indeed I do....’ Well, what then? Oh, nothing. It’s good for me, and good for her. Club? a game of bezique, champagne with Ignatov? No, I’m not going. Château des Fleurs; there I shall find Oblonsky, songs, the cancan. No, I’m sick of it. That’s why I like the Shtcherbatskys’, that I’m growing better. I’ll go home.", "pos": 137054}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Ah! your excellency! whom are you meeting?", "pos": 138612}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "My mother. She is to be here from Petersburg today.", "pos": 138675}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "I was looking out for you till two o’clock last night. Where did you go after the Shtcherbatskys’?", "pos": 138856}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Home. I must own I felt so well content yesterday after the Shtcherbatskys’ that I didn’t care to go anywhere.", "pos": 138957}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "I know a gallant steed by tokens sure, And by his eyes I know a youth in love. Honi soit qui mal y pense! My sister Anna.", "pos": 139090}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Ah! that’s Madame Karenina. You know her, no doubt? I think I do. Or perhaps not ... I really am not sure. I know him by reputation and by sight. I know that he’s clever, learned, religious somewhat.... But you know that’s not ... not in my line,", "pos": 139504}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, he’s a very remarkable man; rather a conservative, but a splendid man, a splendid man.", "pos": 140019}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Oh, well, so much the better for him. Oh, you’ve come, come here. Well, what do you say? Shall we give a supper on Sunday for the diva?", "pos": 140145}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Of course. I’m collecting subscriptions. Oh, did you make the acquaintance of my friend Levin?", "pos": 140604}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Yes; but he left rather early.", "pos": 140728}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "He’s a capital fellow. Isn’t he?", "pos": 140761}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I don’t know why it is, in all Moscow people—present company of course excepted, there’s something uncompromising. They are all on the defensive, lose their tempers, as though they all want to make one feel something....", "pos": 140816}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "No, you’ve not got a true impression of Levin. He’s a very nervous man, and is sometimes out of humor, it’s true, but then he is often very nice. He’s such a true, honest nature, and a heart of gold. But yesterday there were special reasons. Yes, there were reasons why he could not help being either particularly happy or particularly unhappy.", "pos": 141797}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "How so? Do you mean he made your belle-sœur an offer yesterday?", "pos": 142375}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Maybe. I fancied something of the sort yesterday. Yes, if he went away early, and was out of humor too, it must mean it.... He’s been so long in love, and I’m very sorry for him.", "pos": 142441}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "So that’s it! I should imagine, though, she might reckon on a better match, though I don’t know him, of course. Yes, that is a hateful position! That’s why most fellows prefer to have to do with Klaras. If you don’t succeed with them it only proves that you’ve not enough cash, but in this case one’s dignity’s at stake. But here’s the train.", "pos": 142650}
{"speaker": "The smart guard", "text": "Countess Vronskaya is in that compartment,", "pos": 144135}
{"speaker": "Countess Vronskaya", "text": "You got my telegram? Quite well? Thank God.", "pos": 146452}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "You had a good journey?", "pos": 146498}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "All the same I don’t agree with you,", "pos": 146689}
{"speaker": "Ivan Petrovitch", "text": "It’s the Petersburg view, madame.", "pos": 146751}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Not Petersburg, but simply feminine,", "pos": 146787}
{"speaker": "Ivan Petrovitch", "text": "Well, well, allow me to kiss your hand.", "pos": 146841}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Good-bye, Ivan Petrovitch. And could you see if my brother is here, and send him to me?", "pos": 146883}
{"speaker": "Countess Vronskaya", "text": "Well, have you found your brother?", "pos": 147048}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Your brother is here. Excuse me, I did not know you, and, indeed, our acquaintance was so slight, that no doubt you do not remember me.", "pos": 147185}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh, no. I should have known you because your mother and I have been talking, I think, of nothing but you all the way. And still no sign of my brother.", "pos": 147371}
{"speaker": "Countess Vronskaya", "text": "Do call him, Alexey,", "pos": 147631}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Oblonsky! Here!", "pos": 147728}
{"speaker": "Countess Vronskaya", "text": "She’s very sweet, isn’t she? Her husband put her with me, and I was delighted to have her. We’ve been talking all the way. And so you, I hear ... vous filez le parfait amour. Tant mieux, mon cher, tant mieux.", "pos": 148252}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I don’t know what you are referring to, maman. Come, maman, let us go.", "pos": 148503}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Well, countess, you have met your son, and I my brother. And all my gossip is exhausted. I should have nothing more to tell you.", "pos": 148674}
{"speaker": "Countess Vronskaya", "text": "Oh, no. I could go all around the world with you and never be dull. You are one of those delightful women in whose company it’s sweet to be silent as well as to talk. Now please don’t fret over your son; you can’t expect never to be parted. Anna Arkadyevna, has a little son eight years old, I believe, and she has never been parted from him before, and she keeps fretting over leaving him.", "pos": 148817}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, the countess and I have been talking all the time, I of my son and she of hers,", "pos": 149387}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I am afraid that you must have been dreadfully bored,", "pos": 149571}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Thank you so much. The time has passed so quickly. Good-bye, countess.", "pos": 149805}
{"speaker": "Countess Vronskaya", "text": "Good-bye, my love. Let me have a kiss of your pretty face. I speak plainly, at my age, and I tell you simply that I’ve lost my heart to you.", "pos": 149878}
{"speaker": "Countess Vronskaya", "text": "Very charming,", "pos": 150611}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Well, maman, are you perfectly well?", "pos": 151003}
{"speaker": "Countess Vronskaya", "text": "Everything has been delightful. Alexander has been very good, and Marie has grown very pretty. She’s very interesting.", "pos": 151078}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Here’s Lavrenty, now we can go, if you like. Come; there’s not such a crowd now,", "pos": 151393}
{"speaker": "Crowd", "text": "What?... What?... Where?... Flung himself!... Crushed!...", "pos": 152066}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Ah, how awful! Ah, Anna, if you had seen it! Ah, how awful! Oh, if you had seen it, countess. And his wife was there.... It was awful to see her!... She flung herself on the body. They say he was the only support of an immense family. How awful!", "pos": 152735}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Couldn’t one do anything for her?", "pos": 153100}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I’ll be back directly, maman. Now let us be off,", "pos": 153246}
{"speaker": "station-master", "text": "You gave my assistant two hundred roubles. Would you kindly explain for whose benefit you intend them?", "pos": 153766}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "For the widow. I should have thought there was no need to ask.", "pos": 153871}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "You gave that? Very nice, very nice! Isn’t he a splendid fellow? Good-bye, countess.", "pos": 153977}
{"speaker": "a gentleman", "text": "What a horrible death! They say he was cut in two pieces.", "pos": 154311}
{"speaker": "another gentleman", "text": "On the contrary, I think it’s the easiest—instantaneous,", "pos": 154403}
{"speaker": "a third gentleman", "text": "How is it they don’t take proper precautions?", "pos": 154480}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "What is it, Anna?", "pos": 154713}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "It’s an omen of evil,", "pos": 154785}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "What nonsense! You’ve come, that’s the chief thing. You can’t conceive how I’m resting my hopes on you.", "pos": 154819}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Have you known Vronsky long?", "pos": 154953}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes. You know we’re hoping he will marry Kitty.", "pos": 154995}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes? Come now, let us talk of you. Let us talk of your affairs. I got your letter, and here I am.", "pos": 155045}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, all my hopes are in you,", "pos": 155275}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Well, tell me all about it.", "pos": 155333}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Keep your hands still, Grisha,", "pos": 155965}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "What, here already!", "pos": 158233}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Dolly, how glad I am to see you!", "pos": 158283}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "I am glad, too. Most likely she knows. Well, come along, I’ll take you to your room,", "pos": 158318}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Is this Grisha? Heavens, how he’s grown! No, please, let us stay here.", "pos": 158639}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "You are radiant with health and happiness!", "pos": 158969}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I?... Yes. Merciful heavens, Tanya! You’re the same age as my Seryozha. Delightful child, delightful! Show me them all.", "pos": 159044}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Very well, we will go to them. It’s a pity Vassya’s asleep.", "pos": 159434}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Dolly, he has told me. Dolly, dear. I don’t want to speak for him to you, nor to try to comfort you; that’s impossible. But, darling, I’m simply sorry, sorry from my heart for you!", "pos": 159647}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "To comfort me’s impossible. Everything’s lost after what has happened, everything’s over!", "pos": 160218}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "But, Dolly, what’s to be done, what’s to be done? How is it best to act in this awful position—that’s what you must think of.", "pos": 160434}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "All’s over, and there’s nothing more. And the worst of all is, you see, that I can’t cast him off: there are the children, I am tied. And I can’t live with him! it’s a torture to me to see him.", "pos": 160562}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Dolly, darling, he has spoken to me, but I want to hear it from you: tell me about it.", "pos": 160772}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Very well. But I will tell you it from the beginning. You know how I was married. With the education mamma gave us I was more than innocent, I was stupid. I knew nothing. I know they say men tell their wives of their former lives, but Stiva Stepan Arkadyevitch told me nothing. You’ll hardly believe it, but till now I imagined that I was the only woman he had known. So I lived eight years. You must understand that I was so far from suspecting infidelity, I regarded it as impossible, and then—try to imagine it—with such ideas, to find out suddenly all the horror, all the loathsomeness.... You must try and understand me. To be fully convinced of one’s happiness, and all at once.... to get a letter ... his letter to his mistress, my governess. No, it’s too awful! I can understand being carried away by feeling, but deliberately, slyly deceiving me ... and with whom?... To go on being my husband together with her ... it’s awful! You can’t understand....", "pos": 160951}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh, yes, I understand! I understand! Dolly, dearest, I do understand,", "pos": 162108}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "And do you imagine he realizes all the awfulness of my position? Not the slightest! He’s happy and contented.", "pos": 162210}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh, no! He’s to be pitied, he’s weighed down by remorse....", "pos": 162339}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Is he capable of remorse?", "pos": 162428}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes. I know him. I could not look at him without feeling sorry for him. We both know him. He’s good-hearted, but he’s proud, and now he’s so humiliated. What touched me most.... he’s tortured by two things: that he’s ashamed for the children’s sake, and that, loving you—yes, yes, loving you beyond everything on earth, he has hurt you, pierced you to the heart. ‘No, no, she cannot forgive me,’ he keeps saying.", "pos": 162522}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Yes, I can see that his position is awful; it’s worse for the guilty than the innocent, if he feels that all the misery comes from his fault. But how am I to forgive him, how am I to be his wife again after her? For me to live with him now would be torture, just because I love my past love for him.... She’s young, you see, she’s pretty. Do you know, Anna, my youth and my beauty are gone, taken by whom? By him and his children. I have worked for him, and all I had has gone in his service, and now of course any fresh, vulgar creature has more charm for him. No doubt they talked of me together, or, worse still, they were silent. Do you understand?", "pos": 163131}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "And after that he will tell me.... What! can I believe him? Never! No, everything is over, everything that once made my comfort, the reward of my work, and my sufferings.... Would you believe it, I was teaching Grisha just now: once this was a joy to me, now it is a torture. What have I to strive and toil for? Why are the children here? What’s so awful is that all at once my heart’s turned, and instead of love and tenderness, I have nothing but hatred for him; yes, hatred. I could kill him. Darling Dolly, I understand, but don’t torture yourself. You are so distressed, so overwrought, that you look at many things mistakenly.", "pos": 163986}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "What’s to be done? Think for me, Anna, help me. I have thought over everything, and I see nothing.", "pos": 164680}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "One thing I would say. I am his sister, I know his character, that faculty of forgetting everything, everything that faculty for being completely carried away, but for completely repenting too. He cannot believe it, he cannot comprehend now how he can have acted as he did.", "pos": 164909}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "No; he understands, he understood! But I ... you are forgetting me ... does it make it easier for me?", "pos": 165243}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Wait a minute. When he told me, I will own I did not realize all the awfulness of your position. I saw nothing but him, and that the family was broken up. I felt sorry for him, but after talking to you, I see it, as a woman, quite differently. I see your agony, and I can’t tell you how sorry I am for you! But, Dolly, darling, I fully realize your sufferings, only there is one thing I don’t know; I don’t know ... I don’t know how much love there is still in your heart for him. That you know—whether there is enough for you to be able to forgive him. If there is, forgive him!", "pos": 165365}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "No,", "pos": 165947}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I know more of the world than you do. I know how men like Stiva look at it. You speak of his talking of you with her. That never happened. Such men are unfaithful, but their home and wife are sacred to them. Somehow or other these women are still looked on with contempt by them, and do not touch on their feeling for their family. They draw a sort of line that can’t be crossed between them and their families. I don’t understand it, but it is so.", "pos": 166026}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Yes, but he has kissed her....", "pos": 166489}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Dolly, hush, darling. I saw Stiva when he was in love with you. I remember the time when he came to me and cried, talking of you, and all the poetry and loftiness of his feeling for you, and I know that the longer he has lived with you the loftier you have been in his eyes. You know we have sometimes laughed at him for putting in at every word: ‘Dolly’s a marvelous woman.’ You have always been a divinity for him, and you are that still, and this has not been an infidelity of the heart....", "pos": 166522}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "But if it is repeated?", "pos": 167018}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "It cannot be, as I understand it....", "pos": 167043}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Yes, but could you forgive it?", "pos": 167082}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I don’t know, I can’t judge.... Yes, I can. Yes, I can, I can, I can. Yes, I could forgive it. I could not be the same, no; but I could forgive it, and forgive it as though it had never been, never been at all....", "pos": 167115}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Oh, of course, else it would not be forgiveness. If one forgives, it must be completely, completely. Come, let us go; I’ll take you to your room. My dear, how glad I am you came. It has made things better, ever so much better.", "pos": 167453}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Come, God is merciful. Stiva,", "pos": 168180}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "go, and God help you.", "pos": 169863}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Come, come, as we were sitting before. And when is your next ball?", "pos": 170572}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Next week, and a splendid ball. One of those balls where one always enjoys oneself.", "pos": 170836}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Why, are there balls where one always enjoys oneself?", "pos": 170922}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "It’s strange, but there are. At the Bobrishtchevs’ one always enjoys oneself, and at the Nikitins’ too, while at the Mezhkovs’ it’s always dull. Haven’t you noticed it?", "pos": 171008}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "No, my dear, for me there are no balls now where one enjoys oneself. No, my dear, for me there are no balls now where one enjoys oneself. For me there are some less dull and tiresome. Why should not I be dull at a ball? In the first place it’s never so; and secondly, if it were, what difference would it make to me?", "pos": 171179}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Are you coming to this ball?", "pos": 171742}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I imagine it won’t be possible to avoid going. Here, take it,", "pos": 171786}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I shall be so glad if you go. I should so like to see you at a ball.", "pos": 171948}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Anyway, if I do go, I shall comfort myself with the thought that it’s a pleasure to you ... Grisha, don’t pull my hair. It’s untidy enough without that. I imagine you at the ball in lilac. And why in lilac precisely? I know why you press me to come to the ball. You expect a great deal of this ball, and you want everyone to be there to take part in it. Oh! what a happy time you are at. I remember, and I know that blue haze like the mist on the mountains in Switzerland. That mist which covers everything in that blissful time when childhood is just ending, and out of that vast circle, happy and gay, there is a path growing narrower and narrower, and it is delightful and alarming to enter the ballroom, bright and splendid as it is.... Who has not been through it? I know something. Stiva told me, and I congratulate you. I liked him so much. I met Vronsky at the railway station.", "pos": 172019}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, was he there? What was it Stiva told you?", "pos": 173438}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Stiva gossiped about it all. And I should be so glad ... I traveled yesterday with Vronsky’s mother, and his mother talked without a pause of him, he’s her favorite. I know mothers are partial, but....", "pos": 173511}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "What did his mother tell you?", "pos": 173730}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh, a great deal! And I know that he’s her favorite; still one can see how chivalrous he is.... Well, for instance, she told me that he had wanted to give up all his property to his brother, that he had done something extraordinary when he was quite a child, saved a woman out of the water. He’s a hero, in fact. She pressed me very much to go and see her, and I shall be glad to go to see her tomorrow. Stiva is staying a long while in Dolly’s room, thank God. All together. I am afraid you’ll be cold upstairs,", "pos": 173762}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "I want to move you downstairs, and we shall be nearer.", "pos": 175138}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh, please, don’t trouble about me,", "pos": 175195}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "It will be lighter for you here,", "pos": 175351}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I assure you that I sleep everywhere, and always like a marmot.", "pos": 175414}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "What’s the question?", "pos": 175480}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "I want to move Anna downstairs, but we must hang up blinds. No one knows how to do it; I must see to it myself,", "pos": 175659}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "God knows whether they are fully reconciled. Oh, nonsense, Dolly, always making difficulties. Come, I’ll do it all, if you like....", "pos": 175804}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Yes, they must be reconciled. I know how you do everything. You tell Matvey to do what can’t be done, and go away yourself, leaving him to make a muddle of everything,", "pos": 176015}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Full, full reconciliation, full, thank God!", "pos": 176300}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Not at all. Why do you always look down on me and Matvey?", "pos": 176443}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "She is in my album, and, by the way, I’ll show you my Seryozha,", "pos": 177108}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Who can that be?", "pos": 177798}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "It’s early for me to be fetched, and for anyone else it’s late,", "pos": 177829}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Sure to be someone with papers for me,", "pos": 177911}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "And nothing would induce him to come up. What a queer fellow he is!", "pos": 178935}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "He has been at home, and didn’t find me, and thought I should be here, but he did not come up because he thought it late, and Anna’s here.", "pos": 179144}
{"speaker": "Korsunsky", "text": "How nice you’ve come in good time, such a bad habit to be late. It’s a rest to waltz with you. It’s exquisite—such lightness, precision.", "pos": 183445}
{"speaker": "Korsunsky", "text": "Another turn, eh? You’re not tired?", "pos": 185046}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "No, thank you!", "pos": 185124}
{"speaker": "Korsunsky", "text": "Where shall I take you?", "pos": 185141}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Madame Karenina’s here, I think ... take me to her.", "pos": 185167}
{"speaker": "Korsunsky", "text": "Wherever you command. Pardon, mesdames, pardon, pardon, mesdames", "pos": 185221}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "No, I don’t throw stones, though I can’t understand it. You came into the room dancing,", "pos": 187344}
{"speaker": "Korsunsky", "text": "This is one of my most faithful supporters. The princess helps to make balls happy and successful. Anna Arkadyevna, a waltz?", "pos": 187778}
{"speaker": "their host", "text": "Why, have you met?", "pos": 188006}
{"speaker": "Korsunsky", "text": "Is there anyone we have not met? My wife and I are like white wolves—everyone knows us. A waltz, Anna Arkadyevna?", "pos": 188048}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I don’t dance when it’s possible not to dance,", "pos": 188186}
{"speaker": "Korsunsky", "text": "But tonight it’s impossible,", "pos": 188245}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Well, since it’s impossible tonight, let us start,", "pos": 188329}
{"speaker": "Korsunsky", "text": "Pardon! pardon! Waltz! waltz!", "pos": 189248}
{"speaker": "Countess Nordston", "text": "Kitty, what is it? I don’t understand it. Kitty, you’re not dancing the mazurka?", "pos": 194517}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "No, no,", "pos": 194733}
{"speaker": "Countess Nordston", "text": "He asked her for the mazurka before me. She said: ‘Why, aren’t you going to dance it with Princess Shtcherbatskaya?’", "pos": 194785}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, I don’t care!", "pos": 194986}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Delightful ball!", "pos": 196724}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 196793}
{"speaker": "Korsunsky", "text": "Nonsense, Anna Arkadyevna. I’ve such an idea for a cotillion! Un bijou!", "pos": 197467}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "No, I am not going to stay. No; why, as it is, I have danced more at your ball in Moscow than I have all the winter in Petersburg. I must rest a little before my journey.", "pos": 197709}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Are you certainly going tomorrow then?", "pos": 198089}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, I suppose so,", "pos": 198145}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive. And I don’t get on with other people. Pride, they say. No, I have no pride. If I had any pride, I should not have put myself in such a position. Yes, she was bound to choose him. So it had to be, and I cannot complain of anyone or anything. I am myself to blame. What right had I to imagine she would care to join her life to mine? Who am I and what am I? A nobody, not wanted by anyone, nor of use to anybody. Isn’t he right that everything in the world is base and loathsome? And are we fair in our judgment of brother Nikolay? Of course, from the point of view of Prokofy, seeing him in a torn cloak and tipsy, he’s a despicable person. But I know him differently. I know his soul, and know that we are like him. And I, instead of going to seek him out, went out to dinner, and came here.", "pos": 198402}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It all depends with how much judgment and knowledge the thing’s done.", "pos": 202735}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "Well, the devil flay them, the privileged classes. Masha! get us some supper and some wine if there’s any left; or else go and get some. Whom do you want? Who’s I?", "pos": 203346}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "Ah, Kostya! I wrote to you and Sergey Ivanovitch both that I don’t know you and don’t want to know you. What is it you want?", "pos": 204394}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I didn’t want to see you for anything. I’ve simply come to see you.", "pos": 205182}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "You’re of the Kiev university?", "pos": 206334}
{"speaker": "Kritsky", "text": "Yes, I was of Kiev,", "pos": 206445}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "Then, Masha, tell them to bring supper; three portions, spirits and wine.... No, wait a minute.... No, it doesn’t matter.... Go along. So you see. Here, do you see?... Do you see that? That’s the beginning of a new thing we’re going into. It’s a productive association.... You know that capital oppresses the laborer. The laborers with us, the peasants, bear all the burden of labor, and are so placed that however much they work they can’t escape from their position of beasts of burden. All the profits of labor, on which they might improve their position, and gain leisure for themselves, and after that education, all the surplus values are taken from them by the capitalists. And society’s so constituted that the harder they work, the greater the profit of the merchants and landowners, while they stay beasts of burden to the end. And that state of things must be changed. And so we’re founding a locksmiths’ association, where all the production and profit and the chief instruments of production will be in common.", "pos": 207133}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Where is the association to be?", "pos": 208926}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "In the village of Vozdrem, Kazan government.", "pos": 208984}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But why in a village? In the villages, I think, there is plenty of work as it is. Why a locksmiths’ association in a village?", "pos": 209031}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "Why? Because the peasants are just as much slaves as they ever were, and that’s why you and Sergey Ivanovitch don’t like people to try and get them out of their slavery. I know your and Sergey Ivanovitch’s aristocratic views. I know that he applies all the power of his intellect to justify existing evils.", "pos": 209159}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No; and what do you talk of Sergey Ivanovitch for?", "pos": 209650}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "Sergey Ivanovitch? I’ll tell you what for! I’ll tell you what for.... But what’s the use of talking? There’s only one thing.... What did you come to me for? You look down on this, and you’re welcome to,—and go away, in God’s name go away!", "pos": 209724}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I don’t look down on it at all. I don’t even dispute it.", "pos": 210101}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "I’m not well; I’ve grown irritable, and then you talk to me of Sergey Ivanovitch and his article. It’s such rubbish, such lying, such self-deception. What can a man write of justice who knows nothing of it? Have you read his article?", "pos": 210330}
{"speaker": "Kritsky", "text": "I’ve not read it,", "pos": 210760}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 210863}
{"speaker": "Kritsky", "text": "Because I didn’t see the use of wasting my time over it.", "pos": 210938}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "Oh, but excuse me, how did you know it would be wasting your time? That article’s too deep for many people—that’s to say it’s over their heads. But with me, it’s another thing; I see through his ideas, and I know where its weakness lies. He’s no good either. What do you want now?", "pos": 210997}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Have you been long with my brother?", "pos": 211693}
{"speaker": "Marya Nikolaevna", "text": "Yes, more than a year. Nikolay Dmitrievitch’s health has become very poor. Nikolay Dmitrievitch drinks a great deal,", "pos": 211747}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "That is ... how does he drink?", "pos": 211876}
{"speaker": "Marya Nikolaevna", "text": "Drinks vodka, and it’s bad for him.", "pos": 211909}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "And a great deal?", "pos": 211947}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "What were you talking about? What was it?", "pos": 212074}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, nothing,", "pos": 212200}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "Oh, if you don’t want to say, don’t. Only it’s no good your talking to her. She’s a wench, and you’re a gentleman. You understand everything, I see, and have taken stock of everything, and look with commiseration on my shortcomings,", "pos": 212249}
{"speaker": "Marya Nikolaevna", "text": "Nikolay Dmitrievitch, Nikolay Dmitrievitch,", "pos": 212554}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "Oh, very well, very well!... But where’s the supper? Ah, here it is. Here, set it here. Like a drink? Well, enough of Sergey Ivanovitch. I’m glad to see you, anyway. After all’s said and done, we’re not strangers. Come, have a drink. Tell me what you’re doing. How are you living?", "pos": 212651}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I live alone in the country, as I used to. I’m busy looking after the land,", "pos": 213221}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "Why don’t you get married?", "pos": 213436}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "It hasn’t happened so,", "pos": 213465}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "Why not? For me now ... everything’s at an end! I’ve made a mess of my life. But this I’ve said, and I say still, that if my share had been given me when I needed it, my whole life would have been different.", "pos": 213531}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Do you know your little Vanya’s with me, a clerk in the countinghouse at Pokrovskoe.", "pos": 213791}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "Yes, tell me what’s going on at Pokrovskoe. Is the house standing still, and the birch trees, and our schoolroom? And Philip the gardener, is he living? How I remember the arbor and the seat! Now mind and don’t alter anything in the house, but make haste and get married, and make everything as it used to be again. Then I’ll come and see you, if your wife is nice.", "pos": 213926}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But come to me now. How nicely we would arrange it!", "pos": 214294}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "I’d come and see you if I were sure I should not find Sergey Ivanovitch. Yes, but say what you like, you will have to choose between me and him,", "pos": 214362}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "If you want to hear my confession of faith on the subject, I tell you that in your quarrel with Sergey Ivanovitch I take neither side. You’re both wrong. You’re more wrong externally, and he inwardly.", "pos": 214661}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "Ah, ah! You see that, you see that!", "pos": 214864}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But I personally value friendly relations with you more because....", "pos": 214928}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "Why, why?", "pos": 214998}
{"speaker": "Marya Nikolaevna", "text": "Enough, Nikolay Dmitrievitch!", "pos": 215208}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "Let it be! Don’t insist! I’ll beat you! And do you suppose she understands nothing? She understands it all better than any of us. Isn’t it true there’s something good and sweet in her?", "pos": 215320}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Were you never before in Moscow?", "pos": 215665}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "Only you mustn’t be polite and stiff with her. It frightens her. No one ever spoke to her so but the justices of the peace who tried her for trying to get out of a house of ill-fame. Mercy on us, the senselessness in the world! These new institutions, these justices of the peace, rural councils, what hideousness it all is!", "pos": 215758}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "In another world we shall understand it all,", "pos": 216361}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "In another world! Ah, I don’t like that other world! I don’t like it. Here one would think that to get out of all the baseness and the mess, one’s own and other people’s, would be a good thing, and yet I’m afraid of death, awfully afraid of death. But do drink something. Would you like some champagne? Or shall we go somewhere? Let’s go to the Gypsies! Do you know I have got so fond of the Gypsies and Russian songs.", "pos": 216424}
{"speaker": "Agafea Mihalovna", "text": "You’re soon back again, sir,", "pos": 220394}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I got tired of it, Agafea Mihalovna. With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better,", "pos": 220448}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, you’re not going to get away from us, and you’re not going to be different, but you’re going to be the same as you’ve always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectation, of a happiness which you won’t get, and which isn’t possible for you.", "pos": 221126}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Kouzma, give me my sheepskin. And you tell them to take a lantern. I’ll come and look at her,", "pos": 222622}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Here, bring the light, Fyodor, this way. Like the mother! though the color takes after the father; but that’s nothing. Very good. Long and broad in the haunch. Vassily Fedorovitch, isn’t she splendid?", "pos": 223805}
{"speaker": "bailiff", "text": "How could she fail to be? Oh, Semyon the contractor came the day after you left. You must settle with him, Konstantin Dmitrievitch. I did inform you about the machine.", "pos": 224152}
{"speaker": "Agafea Mihalovna", "text": "Well, I’ll stay a while, sir,", "pos": 226044}
{"speaker": "Agafea Mihalovna", "text": "There, who’d have thought it? The dog now ... why, she understands that her master’s come home, and that he’s low-spirited.", "pos": 228657}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Why low-spirited?", "pos": 228808}
{"speaker": "Agafea Mihalovna", "text": "Do you suppose I don’t see it, sir? It’s high time I should know the gentry. Why, I’ve grown up from a little thing with them. It’s nothing, sir, so long as there’s health and a clear conscience. Shall I fetch you another cup?", "pos": 228828}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "No, I must go, I must go no, it had really better be today!", "pos": 229781}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "How queer you are today!", "pos": 231062}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I? Do you think so? I’m not queer, but I’m nasty. I am like that sometimes. I keep feeling as if I could cry. It’s very stupid, but it’ll pass off. In the same way I didn’t want to leave Petersburg, and now I don’t want to go away from here.", "pos": 231108}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "You came here and did a good deed,", "pos": 231564}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Don’t say that, Dolly. I’ve done nothing, and could do nothing. I often wonder why people are all in league to spoil me. What have I done, and what could I do? In your heart there was found love enough to forgive....", "pos": 231683}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "If it had not been for you, God knows what would have happened! How happy you are, Anna! Everything is clear and good in your heart.", "pos": 231902}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Every heart has its own skeletons, as the English say.", "pos": 232051}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "You have no sort of skeleton, have you? Everything is so clear in you.", "pos": 232108}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I have!", "pos": 232181}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Come, he’s amusing, anyway, your skeleton, and not depressing,", "pos": 232285}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "No, he’s depressing. Do you know why I’m going today instead of tomorrow? It’s a confession that weighs on me; I want to make it to you. Yes. Do you know why Kitty didn’t come to dinner? She’s jealous of me. I have spoiled ... I’ve been the cause of that ball being a torture to her instead of a pleasure. But truly, truly, it’s not my fault, or only my fault a little bit,", "pos": 232371}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Oh, how like Stiva you said that!", "pos": 233033}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh no, oh no! I’m not Stiva. That’s why I’m telling you, just because I could never let myself doubt myself for an instant,", "pos": 233106}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Yes, Stiva told me you danced the mazurka with him, and that he....", "pos": 233516}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "You can’t imagine how absurdly it all came about. I only meant to be matchmaking, and all at once it turned out quite differently. Possibly against my own will....", "pos": 233586}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Oh, they feel it directly?", "pos": 233779}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "But I should be in despair if there were anything serious in it on his side. And I am certain it will all be forgotten, and Kitty will leave off hating me.", "pos": 233820}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "All the same, Anna, to tell you the truth, I’m not very anxious for this marriage for Kitty. And it’s better it should come to nothing, if he, Vronsky, is capable of falling in love with you in a single day.", "pos": 234001}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh, heavens, that would be too silly! And so here I am going away, having made an enemy of Kitty, whom I liked so much! Ah, how sweet she is! But you’ll make it right, Dolly? Eh?", "pos": 234211}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "An enemy? That can’t be.", "pos": 234633}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I did so want you all to care for me, as I do for you, and now I care for you more than ever. Ah, how silly I am today!", "pos": 234660}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Remember, Anna, what you’ve done for me—I shall never forget. And remember that I love you, and shall always love you as my dearest friend!", "pos": 235109}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I don’t know why,", "pos": 235251}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "You understood me, and you understand. Good-bye, my darling!", "pos": 235316}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Come, it’s all over, and thank God! Thank God! tomorrow I shall see Seryozha and Alexey Alexandrovitch, and my life will go on in the old way, all nice and as usual.", "pos": 235390}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "What have I to be ashamed of?", "pos": 238429}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Warm, very warm, hot. Well, what is it? What does it mean? Am I afraid to look it straight in the face? Why, what is it? Can it be that between me and this officer boy there exist, or can exist, any other relations than such as are common with every acquaintance?", "pos": 239030}
{"speaker": "Annushka", "text": "Do you wish to get out?", "pos": 241666}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, I want a little air. It’s very hot in here.", "pos": 241708}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Hand over that telegram!", "pos": 243112}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This way! No. 28!", "pos": 243205}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I didn’t know you were going. What are you coming for?", "pos": 244617}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "What am I coming for? You know that I have come to be where you are. I can’t help it. Forgive me, if you dislike what I said,", "pos": 244807}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "It’s wrong, what you say, and I beg you, if you’re a good man, to forget what you’ve said, as I forget it,", "pos": 245568}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget....", "pos": 245695}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Enough, enough!", "pos": 245770}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh, mercy! why do his ears look like that?", "pos": 247188}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Yes, as you see, your tender spouse, as devoted as the first year after marriage, burned with impatience to see you,", "pos": 248020}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Is Seryozha quite well?", "pos": 248309}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "And is this all the reward, for my ardor? He’s quite well....", "pos": 248346}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "No, she does not love him and cannot love him. Have you passed a good night?", "pos": 252244}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Thank you, very good,", "pos": 252711}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Count Vronsky,", "pos": 253318}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Ah! We are acquainted, I believe. You set off with the mother and you return with the son. You’re back from leave, I suppose? Well, were a great many tears shed at Moscow at parting?", "pos": 253346}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I hope I may have the honor of calling on you,", "pos": 253963}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Delighted. On Mondays we’re at home. Most fortunate, that I should just have half an hour to meet you, so that I can prove my devotion,", "pos": 254083}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "You lay too much stress on your devotion for me to value it much. But what has it to do with me?", "pos": 254330}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Oh, capitally! Mariette says he has been very good, And ... I must disappoint you ... but he has not missed you as your husband has. But once more merci, my dear, for giving me a day. Our dear Samovar will be delighted. She has been continually asking after you. And, do you know, if I may venture to advise you, you should go and see her today. You know how she takes everything to heart. Just now, with all her own cares, she’s anxious about the Oblonskys being brought together.", "pos": 254631}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "But you know I wrote to her?", "pos": 255446}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Still she’ll want to hear details. Go and see her, if you’re not too tired, my dear. Well, Kondraty will take you in the carriage, while I go to my committee. I shall not be alone at dinner again. You wouldn’t believe how I’ve missed....", "pos": 255477}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "Mother! mother! I told you it was mother! I knew!", "pos": 256030}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "Why, am I not so nice as she?", "pos": 256891}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "To me you’re nicer than anyone in the world.", "pos": 256939}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "I know that,", "pos": 256986}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "Well, my dear, so you took the olive branch?", "pos": 257329}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, it’s all over, but it was all much less serious than we had supposed. My belle-sœur is in general too hasty.", "pos": 257445}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "Yes, there’s plenty of sorrow and evil in the world. I am so worried today.", "pos": 257750}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh, why?", "pos": 257828}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "I’m beginning to be weary of fruitlessly championing the truth, and sometimes I’m quite unhinged by it. The Society of the Little Sisters was going splendidly, but with these gentlemen it’s impossible to do anything. They pounce on the idea, and distort it, and then work it out so pettily and unworthily. Two or three people, your husband among them, understand all the importance of the thing, but the others simply drag it down. Yesterday Pravdin wrote to me....", "pos": 257879}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "It was all the same before, of course; but why was it I didn’t notice it before? Or has she been very much irritated today? It’s really ludicrous; her object is doing good; she a Christian, yet she’s always angry; and she always has enemies, and always enemies in the name of Christianity and doing good.", "pos": 258829}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "What was it? Nothing. Vronsky said something silly, which it was easy to put a stop to, and I answered as I ought to have done. To speak of it to my husband would be unnecessary and out of the question. To speak of it would be to attach importance to what has no importance. So then there’s no reason to speak of it? And indeed, thank God, there’s nothing to speak of,", "pos": 259886}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Unhasting and unresting. Yes, my solitude is over. You wouldn’t believe how uncomfortable it is to dine alone.", "pos": 261662}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Here you are at last!", "pos": 263933}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Altogether then, I see your visit was a success,", "pos": 264044}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh, yes,", "pos": 264111}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I imagine one cannot exonerate such a man from blame, though he is your brother. I am glad it has all ended so satisfactorily, and that you are back again. Come, what do they say about the new act I have got passed in the council? Here, on the other hand, it has made a great sensation. I was very, very glad. It shows that at last a reasonable and steady view of the matter is becoming prevalent among us. And you’ve not been anywhere this evening? You’ve been dull, I expect?", "pos": 264365}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh, no! What are you reading now?", "pos": 265668}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Just now I’m reading Duc de Lille, Poésie des Enfers. A very remarkable book.", "pos": 265803}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Well, God be with you. And I’ll write to Moscow. All the same he’s a good man; truthful, good-hearted, and remarkable in his own line. But why is it his ears stick out so strangely? Or has he had his hair cut?", "pos": 267106}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "It’s time, it’s time,", "pos": 267885}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "And what right had he to look at him like that?", "pos": 267972}
{"speaker": "Petritsky", "text": "If that’s one of the villains, don’t let him in! Bravo! Vronsky! Our host himself! Baroness, some coffee for him out of the new coffee pot. Why, we didn’t expect you! Hope you’re satisfied with the ornament of your study. You know each other, of course?", "pos": 269053}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I should think so. What next! I’m an old friend.", "pos": 269855}
{"speaker": "the baroness", "text": "You’re home after a journey, so I’m flying. Oh, I’ll be off this minute, if I’m in the way.", "pos": 269980}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "You’re home, wherever you are, baroness. How do you do, Kamerovsky?", "pos": 270095}
{"speaker": "the baroness", "text": "There, you never know how to say such pretty things,", "pos": 270229}
{"speaker": "Petritsky", "text": "No; what’s that for? After dinner I say things quite as good.", "pos": 270325}
{"speaker": "the baroness", "text": "After dinner there’s no credit in them? Well, then, I’ll make you some coffee, so go and wash and get ready. Pierre, give me the coffee. I’ll put it in.", "pos": 270389}
{"speaker": "Petritsky", "text": "You’ll spoil it!", "pos": 270774}
{"speaker": "the baroness", "text": "No, I won’t spoil it! Well, and your wife? We’ve been marrying you here. Have you brought your wife?", "pos": 270793}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "No, baroness. I was born a Bohemian, and a Bohemian I shall die.", "pos": 270980}
{"speaker": "the baroness", "text": "So much the better, so much the better. Shake hands on it. He persists in refusing to give me a divorce! Well, what am I to do? Now I want to begin a suit against him. What do you advise? Kamerovsky, look after the coffee; it’s boiling over. You see, I’m engrossed with business! I want a lawsuit, because I must have my property. Do you understand the folly of it, that on the pretext of my being unfaithful to him, he wants to get the benefit of my fortune.", "pos": 271047}
{"speaker": "the baroness", "text": "Well now, good-bye, or you’ll never get washed, and I shall have on my conscience the worst sin a gentleman can commit. So you would advise a knife to his throat?", "pos": 273155}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "To be sure, and manage that your hand may not be far from his lips. He’ll kiss your hand, and all will end satisfactorily,", "pos": 273320}
{"speaker": "the baroness", "text": "So at the Français!", "pos": 273463}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Impossible! Impossible! And is he as stupid and pleased as ever? Well, and how’s Buzulukov?", "pos": 274862}
{"speaker": "Petritsky", "text": "Oh, there is a tale about Buzulukov—simply lovely! You know his weakness for balls, and he never misses a single court ball. He went to a big ball in a new helmet. Have you seen the new helmets? Very nice, lighter. Well, so he’s standing.... No, I say, do listen.", "pos": 275151}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I am listening,", "pos": 275436}
{"speaker": "Petritsky", "text": "Up comes the Grand Duchess with some ambassador or other, and, as ill-luck would have it, she begins talking to him about the new helmets. The Grand Duchess positively wanted to show the new helmet to the ambassador. They see our friend standing there. The Grand Duchess asked him to give her the helmet; he doesn’t give it to her. What do you think of that? Well, everyone’s winking at him, nodding, frowning—give it to her, do! He doesn’t give it to her. He’s mute as a fish. Only picture it!... Well, the ... what’s his name, whatever he was ... tries to take the helmet from him ... he won’t give it up!... He pulls it from him, and hands it to the Grand Duchess. 'Here, your Highness,' says he, 'is the new helmet.' She turned the helmet the other side up, And—just picture it!—plop went a pear and sweetmeats out of it, two pounds of sweetmeats!... He’d been storing them up, the darling!", "pos": 275508}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Well, doctor, decide our fate. Tell me everything. Is there hope? Well, doctor?", "pos": 279746}
{"speaker": "the celebrated doctor", "text": "Immediately, princess. I will talk it over with my colleague, and then I will have the honor of laying my opinion before you.", "pos": 279932}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "So we had better leave you?", "pos": 280060}
{"speaker": "the celebrated doctor", "text": "As you please. Yes. But.... The commencement of the tuberculous process we are not, as you are aware, able to define; till there are cavities, there is nothing definite. But we may suspect it. And there are indications; malnutrition, nervous excitability, and so on. The question stands thus: in presence of indications of tuberculous process, what is to be done to maintain nutrition?", "pos": 280090}
{"speaker": "the family doctor", "text": "But, you know, there are always moral, spiritual causes at the back in these cases,", "pos": 280867}
{"speaker": "the celebrated doctor", "text": "Yes, that’s an understood thing. Beg pardon, is the Yausky bridge done yet, or shall I have to drive around? Ah! it is. Oh, well, then I can do it in twenty minutes. So we were saying the problem may be put thus: to maintain nutrition and to give tone to the nerves. The one is in close connection with the other, one must attack both sides at once.", "pos": 281025}
{"speaker": "the family doctor", "text": "And how about a tour abroad?", "pos": 281456}
{"speaker": "the celebrated doctor", "text": "I’ve no liking for foreign tours. And take note: if there is an early stage of tuberculous process, of which we cannot be certain, a foreign tour will be of no use. What is wanted is means of improving nutrition, and not for lowering it.", "pos": 281512}
{"speaker": "the family doctor", "text": "But in favor of foreign travel I would urge the change of habits, the removal from conditions calling up reminiscences. And then the mother wishes it,", "pos": 281968}
{"speaker": "the celebrated doctor", "text": "Ah! Well, in that case, to be sure, let them go. Only, those German quacks are mischievous.... They ought to be persuaded.... Well, let them go then.", "pos": 282131}
{"speaker": "doctor", "text": "What! another examination! Oh, no, only a few details, princess.", "pos": 282519}
{"speaker": "doctor", "text": "May I trouble you to sit down, princess?", "pos": 283282}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Excuse me, doctor, but there is really no object in this. This is the third time you’ve asked me the same thing.", "pos": 283512}
{"speaker": "doctor", "text": "Nervous irritability. However, I had finished....", "pos": 283671}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Really, I’m quite well, mamma. But if you want to go abroad, let’s go!", "pos": 284516}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Well, well? You’re all in good spirits. Good news, then?", "pos": 285103}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Ah, mamma, we have plenty of troubles of our own. Lili is ill, and I’m afraid it’s scarlatina. I have come here now to hear about Kitty, and then I shall shut myself up entirely, if—God forbid—it should be scarlatina.", "pos": 286680}
{"speaker": "Alexander", "text": "How have you settled it? you’re going? Well, and what do you mean to do with me? That’s as you like.", "pos": 287071}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Mamma, why shouldn’t father come with us? It would be nicer for him and for us too.", "pos": 287240}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "These stupid chignons! There’s no getting at the real daughter. One simply strokes the bristles of dead women. Well, Dolinka, what’s your young buck about, hey?", "pos": 287945}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Nothing, father. He’s always out; I scarcely ever see him,", "pos": 288143}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Why, hasn’t he gone into the country yet—to see about selling that forest?", "pos": 288316}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "No, he’s still getting ready for the journey.", "pos": 288393}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Oh, that’s it! And so am I to be getting ready for a journey too? At your service. And I tell you what, Katia, you must wake up one fine day and say to yourself: Why, I’m quite well, and merry, and going out again with father for an early morning walk in the frost. Hey?", "pos": 288441}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "See what comes of your jokes! You’re always.... She’s so much to be pitied, poor child, so much to be pitied, and you don’t feel how it hurts her to hear the slightest reference to the cause of it. Ah! to be so mistaken in people! I don’t know why there aren’t laws against such base, dishonorable people.", "pos": 289195}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Ah, I can’t bear to hear you! There are laws, madam, and since you’ve challenged me to it, I’ll tell you who’s to blame for it all: you and you, you and nobody else. Laws against such young gallants there have always been, and there still are! Yes, if there has been nothing that ought not to have been, old as I am, I’d have called him out to the barrier, the young dandy. Yes, and now you physic her and call in these quacks.", "pos": 289820}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Alexander, Alexander,", "pos": 290543}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "There, that’s enough, that’s enough! You’re wretched too, I know. It can’t be helped. There’s no great harm done. God is merciful ... thanks....", "pos": 290694}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "I’d been meaning to tell you something for a long while, mamma: did you know that Levin meant to make Kitty an offer when he was here the last time? He told Stiva so.", "pos": 291657}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Well, what then? I don’t understand....", "pos": 291826}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "So did Kitty perhaps refuse him?... She didn’t tell you so?", "pos": 291868}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "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.", "pos": 291930}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "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.", "pos": 292053}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "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....", "pos": 292327}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Mamma, I’ll go up to her.", "pos": 292461}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Well, do. Did I tell you not to?", "pos": 292489}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "I’m just going now, and I shall have to keep in and you won’t be able to come to see me. I want to talk to you.", "pos": 293068}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "What about?", "pos": 293221}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "What should it be, but your trouble?", "pos": 293284}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I have no trouble.", "pos": 293323}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Nonsense, Kitty. Do you suppose I could help knowing? I know all about it. And believe me, it’s of so little consequence.... We’ve all been through it. He’s not worth your grieving over him,", "pos": 293344}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "No, because he has treated me with contempt. Don’t talk of it! Please, don’t talk of it!", "pos": 293655}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "But who can have told you so? No one has said that. I’m certain he was in love with you, and would still be in love with you, if it hadn’t....", "pos": 293781}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, the most awful thing of all for me is this sympathizing! What, what is it you want to make me feel, eh? That I’ve been in love with a man who didn’t care a straw for me, and that I’m dying of love for him? And this is said to me by my own sister, who imagines that ... that ... that she’s sympathizing with me!... I don’t want these condolences and humbug!", "pos": 293926}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Kitty, you’re unjust.", "pos": 294777}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Why are you tormenting me?", "pos": 294801}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "But I ... quite the contrary ... I see you’re unhappy....", "pos": 294830}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I’ve nothing to grieve over and be comforted about. I am too proud ever to allow myself to care for a man who does not love me.", "pos": 294930}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Yes, I don’t say so either.... Only one thing. Tell me the truth, tell me, did Levin speak to you?...", "pos": 295060}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Why bring Levin in too? I can’t understand what you want to torment me for. I’ve told you, and I say it again, that I have some pride, and never, never would I do as you’re doing—go back to a man who’s deceived you, who has cared for another woman. I can’t understand it! You may, but I can’t!", "pos": 295422}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Dolinka, I am so, so wretched!", "pos": 296404}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I have nothing to make me miserable, but can you understand that everything has become hateful, loathsome, coarse to me, and I myself most of all? You can’t imagine what loathsome thoughts I have about everything.", "pos": 297436}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Why, whatever loathsome thoughts can you have?", "pos": 297680}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "The most utterly loathsome and coarse: I can’t tell you. It’s not unhappiness, or low spirits, but much worse. As though everything that was good in me was all hidden away, and nothing was left but the most loathsome. Come, how am I to tell you? Father began saying something to me just now.... It seems to me he thinks all I want is to be married. Mother takes me to a ball: it seems to me she only takes me to get me married off as soon as may be, and be rid of me. I know it’s not the truth, but I can’t drive away such thoughts. Eligible suitors, as they call them—I can’t bear to see them. It seems to me they’re taking stock of me and summing me up. In old days to go anywhere in a ball dress was a simple joy to me, I admired myself; now I feel ashamed and awkward. And then! The doctor.... Then.... Oh, well, everything presents itself to me, in the coarsest, most loathsome light. That’s my illness. Perhaps it will pass off.", "pos": 297751}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "But you mustn’t think about it.", "pos": 299035}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I can’t help it. I’m never happy except with the children at your house.", "pos": 299069}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "What a pity you can’t be with me!", "pos": 299144}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, yes, I’m coming. I’ve had scarlatina, and I’ll persuade mamma to let me.", "pos": 299180}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "When I’m old and ugly I’ll be the same, but for a pretty young woman like you it’s early days for that house of charity.", "pos": 302249}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "Why didn’t you come to dinner? I marvel at the second sight of lovers, she wasn’t there. But come after the opera. But how I remember your jeers! What’s become of all that? You’re caught, my dear boy.", "pos": 304012}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "That’s my one desire, to be caught. If I complain of anything it’s only that I’m not caught enough, to tell the truth. I begin to lose hope.", "pos": 304504}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "Why, whatever hope can you have?", "pos": 304704}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "None whatever. Excuse me. I’m afraid I’m becoming ridiculous.", "pos": 304942}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "But why was it you didn’t come to dinner?", "pos": 305778}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I must tell you about that. I was busily employed, and doing what, do you suppose? I’ll give you a hundred guesses, a thousand ... you’d never guess. I’ve been reconciling a husband with a man who’d insulted his wife. Yes, really!", "pos": 305846}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "Well, did you succeed?", "pos": 306079}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Almost.", "pos": 306104}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "You really must tell me about it. Come to me in the next entr’acte.", "pos": 306114}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I can’t; I’m going to the French theater.", "pos": 306208}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "From Nilsson?", "pos": 306252}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Can’t help it. I’ve an appointment there, all to do with my mission of peace.", "pos": 306381}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "Blessed are the peacemakers; theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Very well, then, sit down, and tell me what it’s all about.", "pos": 306462}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "This is rather indiscreet, but it’s so good it’s an awful temptation to tell the story. I’m not going to mention any names.", "pos": 306704}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "But I shall guess, so much the better.", "pos": 306885}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Well, listen: two festive young men were driving—", "pos": 306926}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "Officers of your regiment, of course?", "pos": 306978}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I didn’t say they were officers,—two young men who had been lunching.", "pos": 307018}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "In other words, drinking.", "pos": 307090}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Possibly. They were driving on their way to dinner with a friend in the most festive state of mind. And they beheld a pretty woman in a hired sledge; she overtakes them, looks round at them, and, so they fancy anyway, nods to them and laughs. They, of course, follow her. They gallop at full speed. To their amazement, the fair one alights at the entrance of the very house to which they were going. The fair one darts upstairs to the top story. They get a glimpse of red lips under a short veil, and exquisite little feet.", "pos": 307118}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "You describe it with such feeling that I fancy you must be one of the two.", "pos": 307644}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "And after what you said, just now! Well, the young men go in to their comrade’s; he was giving a farewell dinner. There they certainly did drink a little too much, as one always does at farewell dinners. And at dinner they inquire who lives at the top in that house. No one knows; only their host’s valet, in answer to their inquiry whether any ‘young ladies’ are living on the top floor, answered that there were a great many of them about there. After dinner the two young men go into their host’s study, and write a letter to the unknown fair one. They compose an ardent epistle, a declaration in fact, and they carry the letter upstairs themselves, so as to elucidate whatever might appear not perfectly intelligible in the letter.", "pos": 307721}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "Why are you telling me these horrible stories? Well?", "pos": 308459}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "They ring. A maid-servant opens the door, they hand her the letter, and assure the maid that they’re both so in love that they’ll die on the spot at the door. The maid, stupefied, carries in their messages. All at once a gentleman appears with whiskers like sausages, as red as a lobster, announces that there is no one living in the flat except his wife, and sends them both about their business.", "pos": 308514}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "How do you know he had whiskers like sausages, as you say?", "pos": 308914}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Ah, you shall hear. I’ve just been to make peace between them.", "pos": 308975}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "Well, and what then?", "pos": 309040}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "That’s the most interesting part of the story. It appears that it’s a happy couple, a government clerk and his lady. The government clerk lodges a complaint, and I became a mediator, and such a mediator!... I assure you Talleyrand couldn’t hold a candle to me.", "pos": 309063}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "Why, where was the difficulty?", "pos": 309326}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Ah, you shall hear.... We apologize in due form: we are in despair, we entreat forgiveness for the unfortunate misunderstanding. The government clerk with the sausages begins to melt, but he, too, desires to express his sentiments, and as soon as ever he begins to express them, he begins to get hot and say nasty things, and again I’m obliged to trot out all my diplomatic talents. I allowed that their conduct was bad, but I urged him to take into consideration their heedlessness, their youth; then, too, the young men had only just been lunching together. ‘You understand. They regret it deeply, and beg you to overlook their misbehavior.’ The government clerk was softened once more. ‘I consent, count, and am ready to overlook it; but you perceive that my wife—my wife’s a respectable woman—has been exposed to the persecution, and insults, and effrontery of young upstarts, scoundrels....’ And you must understand, the young upstarts are present all the while, and I have to keep the peace between them. Again I call out all my diplomacy, and again as soon as the thing was about at an end, our friend the government clerk gets hot and red, and his sausages stand on end with wrath, and once more I launch out into diplomatic wiles.", "pos": 309359}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "Ah, he must tell you this story! He has been making me laugh so. Well, bonne chance!", "pos": 310601}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Yes, it’s all very well,", "pos": 312378}
{"speaker": "colonel", "text": "Petritsky’s becoming impossible. Not a week goes by without some scandal. This government clerk won’t let it drop, he’ll go on with the thing.", "pos": 312475}
{"speaker": "colonel", "text": "It’s a disgraceful story, but killing. Kedrov really can’t fight the gentleman! Was he so awfully hot? But what do you say to Claire today? She’s marvelous. However often you see her, every day she’s different. It’s only the French who can do that.", "pos": 313992}
{"speaker": "Princess Myakaya", "text": "She’s exceptionally good as an actress; one can see she’s studied Kaulbach. Did you notice how she fell down?... Oh, please, don’t let us talk about Nilsson! No one can possibly say anything new about her. Three people have used that very phrase about Kaulbach to me today already, just as though they had made a compact about it. And I can’t see why they liked that remark so.", "pos": 315837}
{"speaker": "Ambassador’s wife", "text": "Do tell me something amusing but not spiteful,", "pos": 316759}
{"speaker": "Attaché", "text": "They say that that’s a difficult task, that nothing’s amusing that isn’t spiteful. But I’ll try. Get me a subject. It all lies in the subject. If a subject’s given me, it’s easy to spin something round it. I often think that the celebrated talkers of the last century would have found it difficult to talk cleverly now. Everything clever is so stale....", "pos": 316998}
{"speaker": "Ambassador’s wife", "text": "That has been said long ago,", "pos": 317379}
{"speaker": "Attaché", "text": "Don’t you think there’s something Louis Quinze about Tushkevitch?", "pos": 317620}
{"speaker": "Ambassador’s wife", "text": "Oh, yes! He’s in the same style as the drawing-room and that’s why it is he’s so often here.", "pos": 317772}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Have you heard the Maltishtcheva woman—the mother, not the daughter—has ordered a costume in diable rose color?", "pos": 318315}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nonsense! No, that’s too lovely!", "pos": 318429}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I wonder that with her sense—for she’s not a fool, you know—that she doesn’t see how funny she is.", "pos": 318464}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "How did you like Nilsson?", "pos": 318977}
{"speaker": "Princess Myakaya", "text": "Oh, how can you steal upon anyone like that! How you startled me! Please don’t talk to me about the opera; you know nothing about music. I’d better meet you on your own ground, and talk about your majolica and engravings. Come now, what treasure have you been buying lately at the old curiosity shops?", "pos": 319015}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "Would you like me to show you? But you don’t understand such things.", "pos": 319336}
{"speaker": "Princess Myakaya", "text": "Oh, do show me! I’ve been learning about them at those—what’s their names?... the bankers ... they’ve some splendid engravings. They showed them to us.", "pos": 319407}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "Why, have you been at the Schützburgs?", "pos": 319561}
{"speaker": "Princess Myakaya", "text": "Yes, ma chère. They asked my husband and me to dinner, and told us the sauce at that dinner cost a hundred pounds, and very nasty sauce it was, some green mess. We had to ask them, and I made them sauce for eighteen pence, and everybody was very much pleased with it. I can’t run to hundred-pound sauces.", "pos": 319638}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "She’s unique!", "pos": 320025}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Marvelous!", "pos": 320069}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "Will you really not have tea? You should come over here by us.", "pos": 320759}
{"speaker": "Ambassador’s wife", "text": "No, we’re very happy here,", "pos": 320824}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Anna is quite changed since her stay in Moscow. There’s something strange about her,", "pos": 321050}
{"speaker": "Ambassador’s wife", "text": "The great change is that she brought back with her the shadow of Alexey Vronsky,", "pos": 321154}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, what of it? There’s a fable of Grimm’s about a man without a shadow, a man who’s lost his shadow. And that’s his punishment for something. I never could understand how it was a punishment. But a woman must dislike being without a shadow.", "pos": 321265}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, but women with a shadow usually come to a bad end,", "pos": 321511}
{"speaker": "Princess Myakaya", "text": "Bad luck to your tongue! Madame Karenina’s a splendid woman. I don’t like her husband, but I like her very much.", "pos": 321589}
{"speaker": "Ambassador’s wife", "text": "Why don’t you like her husband? He’s such a remarkable man. My husband says there are few statesmen like him in Europe.", "pos": 321738}
{"speaker": "Princess Myakaya", "text": "And my husband tells me just the same, but I don’t believe it. If our husbands didn’t talk to us, we should see the facts as they are. Alexey Alexandrovitch, to my thinking, is simply a fool. I say it in a whisper ... but doesn’t it really make everything clear? Before, when I was told to consider him clever, I kept looking for his ability, and thought myself a fool for not seeing it; but directly I said, he’s a fool, though only in a whisper, everything’s explained, isn’t it?", "pos": 321890}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How spiteful you are today!", "pos": 322399}
{"speaker": "Princess Myakaya", "text": "Not a bit. I’d no other way out of it. One of the two had to be a fool. And, well, you know one can’t say that of oneself.", "pos": 322429}
{"speaker": "Attaché", "text": "No one is satisfied with his fortune, and everyone is satisfied with his wit.", "pos": 322555}
{"speaker": "Princess Myakaya", "text": "That’s just it, just it. But the point is that I won’t abandon Anna to your mercies. She’s so nice, so charming. How can she help it if they’re all in love with her, and follow her about like shadows?", "pos": 322676}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, I had no idea of blaming her for it,", "pos": 322913}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If no one follows us about like a shadow, that’s no proof that we’ve any right to blame her.", "pos": 322992}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "What wicked gossip were you talking over there?", "pos": 323292}
{"speaker": "Ambassador’s wife", "text": "About the Karenins. The princess gave us a sketch of Alexey Alexandrovitch,", "pos": 323355}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "Pity we didn’t hear it! Ah, here you are at last!", "pos": 323504}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where do I come from?", "pos": 323891}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, there’s no help for it, I must confess. From the opera bouffe. I do believe I’ve seen it a hundred times, and always with fresh enjoyment. It’s exquisite! I know it’s disgraceful, but I go to sleep at the opera, and I sit out the opera bouffe to the last minute, and enjoy it. This evening....", "pos": 323976}
{"speaker": "the ambassador’s wife", "text": "Please don’t tell us about that horror.", "pos": 324415}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All right, I won’t especially as everyone knows those horrors.", "pos": 324457}
{"speaker": "Princess Myakaya", "text": "And we should all go to see them if it were accepted as the correct thing, like the opera,", "pos": 324522}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I have been at Countess Lidia’s, and meant to have come here earlier, but I stayed on. Sir John was there. He’s very interesting.", "pos": 325541}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "Oh, that’s this missionary?", "pos": 325673}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes; he told us about the life in India, most interesting things.", "pos": 325703}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Sir John! Yes, Sir John; I’ve seen him. He speaks well. The Vlassieva girl’s quite in love with him.", "pos": 325880}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And is it true the younger Vlassieva girl’s to marry Topov?", "pos": 325983}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, they say it’s quite a settled thing.", "pos": 326045}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I wonder at the parents! They say it’s a marriage for love.", "pos": 326089}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "For love? What antediluvian notions you have! Can one talk of love in these days?", "pos": 326151}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "What’s to be done? It’s a foolish old fashion that’s kept up still,", "pos": 326263}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "So much the worse for those who keep up the fashion. The only happy marriages I know are marriages of prudence.", "pos": 326347}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Yes, but then how often the happiness of these prudent marriages flies away like dust just because that passion turns up that they have refused to recognize,", "pos": 326461}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But by marriages of prudence we mean those in which both parties have sown their wild oats already. That’s like scarlatina—one has to go through it and get it over.", "pos": 326635}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Then they ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.", "pos": 326802}
{"speaker": "Princess Myakaya", "text": "I was in love in my young days with a deacon. I don’t know that it did me any good.", "pos": 326874}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "No; I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them,", "pos": 326989}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Even after marriage?", "pos": 327106}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s never too late to mend.", "pos": 327168}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "Just so, one must make mistakes and correct them. What do you think about it?", "pos": 327258}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I think I think ... of so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. Oh, I have had a letter from Moscow. They write me that Kitty Shtcherbatskaya’s very ill.", "pos": 327464}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Really?", "pos": 327895}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "That doesn’t interest you?", "pos": 327967}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "On the contrary, it does, very much. What was it exactly they told you, if I may know?", "pos": 327996}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Give me a cup of tea. I often think men have no understanding of what’s not honorable though they’re always talking of it. I’ve wanted to tell you so a long while,", "pos": 328131}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I don’t quite understand the meaning of your words,", "pos": 328572}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, I have been wanting to tell you. You behaved wrongly, very wrongly.", "pos": 328724}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Do you suppose I don’t know that I’ve acted wrongly? But who was the cause of my doing so?", "pos": 328831}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "What do you say that to me for?", "pos": 328924}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "You know what for,", "pos": 328994}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "That only shows you have no heart. Remember that I have forbidden you to utter that word, that hateful word. I have long meant to tell you this. I’ve come on purpose this evening, knowing I should meet you. I have come to tell you that this must end. I have never blushed before anyone, and you force me to feel to blame for something.", "pos": 329125}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "What do you wish of me?", "pos": 330002}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I want you to go to Moscow and ask for Kitty’s forgiveness,", "pos": 330058}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "You don’t wish that?", "pos": 330130}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "If you love me, as you say, do so that I may be at peace.", "pos": 330244}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Don’t you know that you’re all my life to me? But I know no peace, and I can’t give it to you; all myself—and love ... yes. I can’t think of you and myself apart. You and I are one to me. And I see no chance before us of peace for me or for you. I see a chance of despair, of wretchedness ... or I see a chance of bliss, what bliss!... Can it be there’s no chance of it?", "pos": 330344}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Then do this for me: never say such things to me, and let us be friends,", "pos": 331056}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people—that’s in your hands. I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.", "pos": 331188}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I don’t want to drive you away.", "pos": 331581}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Only don’t change anything, leave everything as it is. Your Rambouillet is in full conclave, the graces and the muses.", "pos": 331615}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "This is getting indecorous,", "pos": 332582}
{"speaker": "Anna's friend", "text": "What did I tell you?", "pos": 332704}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "I’m always amazed at the clearness and precision of your husband’s language. The most transcendental ideas seem to be within my grasp when he’s speaking.", "pos": 333314}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh, yes!", "pos": 333482}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "You’ve said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing, but you know that friendship’s not what I want: that there’s only one happiness in life for me, that word that you dislike so ... yes, love!...", "pos": 334374}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Love. Why I don’t like the word is that it means too much to me, far more than you can understand,", "pos": 334588}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I must think it over, come to a decision, and put it out of my mind. The question of her feelings, of what has passed and may be passing in her soul, that’s not my affair; that’s the affair of her conscience, and falls under the head of religion. And so, questions as to her feelings, and so on, are questions for her conscience, with which I can have nothing to do. My duty is clearly defined. As the head of the family, I am a person bound in duty to guide her, and consequently, in part the person responsible; I am bound to point out the danger I perceive, to warn her, even to use my authority. I ought to speak plainly to her. I must say and express fully the following points: first, exposition of the value to be attached to public opinion and to decorum; secondly, exposition of religious significance of marriage; thirdly, if need be, reference to the calamity possibly ensuing to our son; fourthly, reference to the unhappiness likely to result to herself.", "pos": 341467}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "You’re not in bed? What a wonder! It’s late, Alexey Alexandrovitch,", "pos": 344165}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Anna, it’s necessary for me to have a talk with you.", "pos": 344377}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "With me? Why, what is it? What about? Well, let’s talk, if it’s so necessary. But it would be better to get to sleep.", "pos": 344432}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Anna, I must warn you,", "pos": 344993}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Warn me? Of what?", "pos": 345028}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, it’s shut up, and so it must be, and will be in future.", "pos": 345864}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "But perhaps the key may yet be found. I want to warn you, that through thoughtlessness and lack of caution you may cause yourself to be talked about in society. Your too animated conversation this evening with Count Vronsky attracted attention.", "pos": 346034}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "You’re always like that. One time you don’t like my being dull, and another time you don’t like my being lively. I wasn’t dull. Does that offend you? Oh, please, don’t do that, I do so dislike it,", "pos": 346575}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Anna, is this you?", "pos": 346976}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "But what is it all about? What do you want of me?", "pos": 347107}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "This is what I meant to say to you, and I beg you to listen to it. I consider jealousy, as you know, a humiliating and degrading feeling, and I shall never allow myself to be influenced by it; but there are certain rules of decorum which cannot be disregarded with impunity. This evening it was not I observed it, but judging by the impression made on the company, everyone observed that your conduct and deportment were not altogether what could be desired. Sire,", "pos": 347544}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I positively don’t understand. He doesn’t care. But other people noticed it, and that’s what upsets him. You’re not well, Alexey Alexandrovitch. Well, I’m listening to what’s to come, and indeed I listen with interest, for I should like to understand what’s the matter.", "pos": 348041}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "To enter into all the details of your feelings I have no right, and besides, I regard that as useless and even harmful. Ferreting in one’s soul, one often ferrets out something that might have lain there unnoticed. Your feelings are an affair of your own conscience; but I am in duty bound to you, to myself, and to God, to point out to you your duties. Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a crime of that nature brings its own chastisement.", "pos": 348818}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I don’t understand a word. And, oh dear! how sleepy I am, unluckily,", "pos": 349354}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Anna, for God’s sake don’t speak like that! Perhaps I am mistaken, but believe me, what I say, I say as much for myself as for you. I am your husband, and I love you.", "pos": 349514}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Love? Can he love? If he hadn’t heard there was such a thing as love, he would never have used the word. He doesn’t even know what love is. Alexey Alexandrovitch, really I don’t understand. Define what it is you find....", "pos": 349836}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Pardon, let me say all I have to say. I love you. But I am not speaking of myself; the most important persons in this matter are our son and yourself. It may very well be, I repeat, that my words seem to you utterly unnecessary and out of place; it may be that they are called forth by my mistaken impression. In that case, I beg you to forgive me. But if you are conscious yourself of even the smallest foundation for them, then I beg you to think a little, and if your heart prompts you, to speak out to me....", "pos": 350073}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I have nothing to say. And besides, it’s really time to be in bed.", "pos": 350682}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "It’s late, it’s late,", "pos": 351626}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Anna! Anna! Anna, for pity’s sake!...", "pos": 353545}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "My God! Forgive me!", "pos": 353870}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "All is over. I have nothing but you. Remember that.", "pos": 355336}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I can never forget what is my whole life. For one instant of this happiness....", "pos": 355402}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Happiness! For pity’s sake, not a word, not a word more. Not a word more,", "pos": 355484}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "No, just now I can’t think of it, later on, when I am calmer. Later, later, when I am calmer.", "pos": 356262}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, Nikolay! I mean to get married,", "pos": 358436}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "And high time too, Konstantin Dmitrievitch.", "pos": 358573}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Why isn’t the carpenter at the thrashing machine?", "pos": 366857}
{"speaker": "bailiff", "text": "Oh, I meant to tell you yesterday, the harrows want repairing. Here it’s time they got to work in the fields.", "pos": 366909}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But what were they doing in the winter, then?", "pos": 367021}
{"speaker": "bailiff", "text": "But what did you want the carpenter for?", "pos": 367069}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Where are the hurdles for the calves’ paddock?", "pos": 367112}
{"speaker": "bailiff", "text": "I ordered them to be got ready. What would you have with those peasants!", "pos": 367161}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "It’s not those peasants but this bailiff! Why, what do I keep you for? Well, what do you say? Can sowing begin?", "pos": 367279}
{"speaker": "bailiff", "text": "Behind Turkin tomorrow or the next day they might begin.", "pos": 367582}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "And the clover?", "pos": 367641}
{"speaker": "bailiff", "text": "I’ve sent Vassily and Mishka; they’re sowing. Only I don’t know if they’ll manage to get through; it’s so slushy.", "pos": 367659}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "How many acres?", "pos": 367775}
{"speaker": "bailiff", "text": "About fifteen.", "pos": 367793}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Why not sow all?", "pos": 367810}
{"speaker": "bailiff", "text": "There’s no one to send. What would you have with such a set of peasants? Three haven’t turned up. And there’s Semyon....", "pos": 368144}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, you should have taken some men from the thatching.", "pos": 368267}
{"speaker": "bailiff", "text": "And so I have, as it is.", "pos": 368326}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Where are the peasants, then?", "pos": 368353}
{"speaker": "bailiff", "text": "Five are making compôte four are shifting the oats for fear of a touch of mildew, Konstantin Dmitrievitch.", "pos": 368385}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Why, but I told you during Lent to put in pipes,", "pos": 368662}
{"speaker": "bailiff", "text": "Don’t put yourself out; we shall get it all done in time.", "pos": 368723}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Ignat! saddle me....", "pos": 369226}
{"speaker": "coachman", "text": "Which, sir?", "pos": 369344}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, let it be Kolpik.", "pos": 369358}
{"speaker": "coachman", "text": "Yes, sir.", "pos": 369384}
{"speaker": "bailiff", "text": "If we can manage it, Konstantin Dmitrievitch,", "pos": 370546}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Why ever shouldn’t you manage it?", "pos": 370612}
{"speaker": "bailiff", "text": "We positively must have another fifteen laborers. And they don’t turn up. There were some here today asking seventy roubles for the summer.", "pos": 370648}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Send to Sury, to Tchefirovka; if they don’t come we must look for them.", "pos": 371115}
{"speaker": "Vassily Fedorovitch", "text": "Oh, I’ll send, to be sure. But there are the horses, too, they’re not good for much.", "pos": 371189}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "We’ll get some more. I know, of course, you always want to do with as little and as poor quality as possible; but this year I’m not going to let you have things your own way. I’ll see to everything myself.", "pos": 371317}
{"speaker": "bailiff", "text": "Why, I don’t think you take much rest as it is. It cheers us up to work under the master’s eye....", "pos": 371549}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "So they’re sowing clover behind the Birch Dale? I’ll go and have a look at them,", "pos": 371650}
{"speaker": "coachman", "text": "You can’t get across the streams, Konstantin Dmitrievitch,", "pos": 371816}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "All right, I’ll go by the forest.", "pos": 371899}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, Ipat, shall we soon be sowing?", "pos": 373102}
{"speaker": "Ipat", "text": "We must get the ploughing done first, Konstantin Dmitrievitch,", "pos": 373141}
{"speaker": "Vassily", "text": "It’s all right, sir, it’ll spring up again,", "pos": 374573}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Please don’t argue, but do as you’re told.", "pos": 374638}
{"speaker": "Vassily", "text": "Yes, sir. What a sowing, Konstantin Dmitrievitch, first rate. Only it’s a work to get about! You drag a ton of earth on your shoes.", "pos": 374697}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Why is it you have earth that’s not sifted?", "pos": 374904}
{"speaker": "Vassily", "text": "Well, we crumble it up,", "pos": 374962}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Where did you stop?", "pos": 375501}
{"speaker": "Vassily", "text": "Well, master, when summer’s here, mind you don’t scold me for these rows,", "pos": 375791}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Eh?", "pos": 375881}
{"speaker": "Vassily", "text": "Why, you’ll see in the summer time. It’ll look different. Look you where I sowed last spring. How I did work at it! I do my best, Konstantin Dmitrievitch, d’ye see, as I would for my own father. I don’t like bad work myself, nor would I let another man do it. What’s good for the master’s good for us too. To look out yonder now, it does one’s heart good.", "pos": 375950}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "It’s a lovely spring, Vassily.", "pos": 376334}
{"speaker": "Vassily", "text": "Why, it’s a spring such as the old men don’t remember the like of. I was up home; an old man up there has sown wheat too, about an acre of it. He was saying you wouldn’t know it from rye.", "pos": 376367}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Have you been sowing wheat long?", "pos": 376557}
{"speaker": "Vassily", "text": "Why, sir, it was you taught us the year before last. You gave me two measures. We sold about eight bushels and sowed a rood.", "pos": 376592}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, mind you crumble up the clods, and keep an eye on Mishka. And if there’s a good crop you shall have half a rouble for every acre.", "pos": 376719}
{"speaker": "Vassily", "text": "Humbly thankful. We are very well content, sir, as it is.", "pos": 376896}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "There must be snipe too. Yes, that’s someone from the railway station, just the time to be here from the Moscow train ... Who could it be? What if it’s brother Nikolay? He did say: ‘Maybe I’ll go to the waters, or maybe I’ll come down to you.’", "pos": 377818}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, if it were only some nice person one could talk to a little! Ah. Here’s a delightful visitor! Ah, how glad I am to see you! I shall find out for certain whether she’s married, or when she’s going to be married,", "pos": 378970}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, you didn’t expect me, eh? I’ve come to see you in the first place, to have some stand-shooting second, and to sell the forest at Ergushovo third.", "pos": 379402}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Delightful! What a spring we’re having! How ever did you get along in a sledge?", "pos": 379771}
{"speaker": "driver", "text": "In a cart it would have been worse still, Konstantin Dmitrievitch,", "pos": 379853}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, I’m very, very glad to see you. Do just as you like, only let it be as soon as possible,", "pos": 379957}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, I am glad I managed to get away to you! Now I shall understand what the mysterious business is that you are always absorbed in here. No, really, I envy you. What a house, how nice it all is! So bright, so cheerful! And your nurse is simply charming! A pretty maid in an apron might be even more agreeable, perhaps; but for your severe monastic style it does very well.", "pos": 380680}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Splendid, splendid! I feel as if, coming to you, I had landed on a peaceful shore after the noise and jolting of a steamer. And so you maintain that the laborer himself is an element to be studied and to regulate the choice of methods in agriculture. Of course, I’m an ignorant outsider; but I should fancy theory and its application will have its influence on the laborer too.", "pos": 383011}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, but wait a bit. I’m not talking of political economy, I’m talking of the science of agriculture. It ought to be like the natural sciences, and to observe given phenomena and the laborer in his economic, ethnographical....", "pos": 383440}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Oh, Agafea Mihalovna, what salt goose, what herb brandy!... What do you think, isn’t it time to start, Kostya?", "pos": 383720}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, it’s time. Kouzma, get ready the trap,", "pos": 384001}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Kostya, give orders that if the merchant Ryabinin comes ... I told him to come today, he’s to be brought in and to wait for me....", "pos": 384435}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Why, do you mean to say you’re selling the forest to Ryabinin?", "pos": 384568}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes. Do you know him?", "pos": 384633}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "To be sure I do. I have had to do business with him, ‘positively and conclusively.’", "pos": 384657}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, it’s wonderfully funny the way he talks. She knows where her master’s going!", "pos": 384838}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I told them to bring the trap round; or would you rather walk?", "pos": 385078}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "No, we’d better drive. How is it you don’t smoke? A cigar is a sort of thing, not exactly a pleasure, but the crown and outward sign of pleasure. Come, this is life! How splendid it is! This is how I should like to live!", "pos": 385143}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Why, who prevents you?", "pos": 385488}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "No, you’re a lucky man! You’ve got everything you like. You like horses—and you have them; dogs—you have them; shooting—you have it; farming—you have it.", "pos": 385534}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Perhaps because I rejoice in what I have, and don’t fret for what I haven’t. Come, tell me how things are going with you,", "pos": 385690}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "You don’t admit, I know, that one can be fond of new rolls when one has had one’s rations of bread—to your mind it’s a crime; but I don’t count life as life without love. What am I to do? I’m made that way. And really, one does so little harm to anyone, and gives oneself so much pleasure....", "pos": 386310}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "What! is there something new, then?", "pos": 386653}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, my boy, there is! There, do you see, you know the type of Ossian’s women.... Women, such as one sees in dreams.... Well, these women are sometimes to be met in reality ... and these women are terrible. Woman, don’t you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it’s always perfectly new.", "pos": 386706}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, then, it would be better not to study it.", "pos": 387015}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "No. Some mathematician has said that enjoyment lies in the search for truth, not in the finding it.", "pos": 387065}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Imagine! One can hear and see the grass growing!", "pos": 388479}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Imagine! the cuckoo already!", "pos": 389387}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, I hear it. Now it’s coming!", "pos": 389475}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "What’s that cry?", "pos": 389864}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, don’t you know it? That’s the hare. But enough talking! Listen, it’s flying!", "pos": 390003}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Can I have missed it?", "pos": 391076}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Here it is! Well, I’m glad you were successful,", "pos": 391162}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "It was a bad shot from the right barrel. Sh... it’s flying!", "pos": 391530}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Isn’t it time to go home?", "pos": 392692}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Let’s stay a little while,", "pos": 392812}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "As you like.", "pos": 392857}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Stiva! how is it you don’t tell me whether your sister-in-law’s married yet, or when she’s going to be?", "pos": 392933}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "She’s never thought of being married, and isn’t thinking of it; but she’s very ill, and the doctors have sent her abroad. They’re positively afraid she may not live.", "pos": 393208}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "What! Very ill? What is wrong with her? How has she...?", "pos": 393376}
{"speaker": "Laska", "text": "They have chosen a time to talk. It’s on the wing.... Here it is, yes, it is. They’ll miss it,", "pos": 393566}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Splendid! Together! Oh, yes, what was it that was unpleasant? Yes, Kitty’s ill.... Well, it can’t be helped; I’m very sorry. She’s found it! Isn’t she a clever thing? I’ve got it, Stiva! I have no right whatever to know family matters, and, to tell the truth, no interest in them either. Have you quite settled about the forest with Ryabinin?", "pos": 394023}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, it’s settled. The price is magnificent; thirty-eight thousand. Eight straight away, and the rest in six years. I’ve been bothering about it for ever so long. No one would give more.", "pos": 395220}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Then you’ve as good as given away your forest for nothing,", "pos": 395409}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "How do you mean for nothing?", "pos": 395491}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Because the forest is worth at least a hundred and fifty roubles the acre,", "pos": 395631}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Oh, these farmers! Your tone of contempt for us poor townsfolk!... But when it comes to business, we do it better than anyone. I assure you I have reckoned it all out, and the forest is fetching a very good price—so much so that I’m afraid of this fellow’s crying off, in fact. You know it’s not ‘timber,’ And it won’t run to more than twenty-five yards of fagots per acre, and he’s giving me at the rate of seventy roubles the acre.", "pos": 395724}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I know, that fashion not only in him, but in all city people, who, after being twice in ten years in the country, pick up two or three phrases and use them in season and out of season, firmly persuaded that they know all about it. ‘Timber, run to so many yards the acre.’ He says those words without understanding them himself. I wouldn’t attempt to teach you what you write about in your office, and if need arose, I should come to you to ask about it. But you’re so positive you know all the lore of the forest. It’s difficult. Have you counted the trees?", "pos": 396355}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "How count the trees? Count the sands of the sea, number the stars. Some higher power might do it.", "pos": 396942}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, well, the higher power of Ryabinin can. Not a single merchant ever buys a forest without counting the trees, unless they get it given them for nothing, as you’re doing now. I know your forest. I go there every year shooting, and your forest’s worth a hundred and fifty roubles an acre paid down, while he’s giving you sixty by installments. So that in fact you’re making him a present of thirty thousand.", "pos": 397135}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Come, don’t let your imagination run away with you. Why was it none would give it, then?", "pos": 397546}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Why, because he has an understanding with the merchants; he’s bought them off. I’ve had to do with all of them; I know them. They’re not merchants, you know: they’re speculators. He wouldn’t look at a bargain that gave him ten, fifteen per cent. profit, but holds back to buy a rouble’s worth for twenty kopecks.", "pos": 397675}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, enough of it! You’re out of temper.", "pos": 397990}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Not the least,", "pos": 398034}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "So here you are. That’s capital.", "pos": 398947}
{"speaker": "Ryabinin", "text": "I did not venture to disregard your excellency’s commands, though the road was extremely bad. I positively walked the whole way, but I am here at my time. Konstantin Dmitrievitch, my respects Your honors have been diverting yourselves with the chase? What kind of bird may it be, pray? a great delicacy, I suppose.", "pos": 399031}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Would you like to go into my study? Go into my study; you can talk there.", "pos": 399653}
{"speaker": "Ryabinin", "text": "Quite so, where you please,", "pos": 399795}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, have you brought the money? Sit down.", "pos": 400417}
{"speaker": "Ryabinin", "text": "Oh, don’t trouble about the money. I’ve come to see you to talk it over.", "pos": 400481}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "What is there to talk over? But do sit down.", "pos": 400556}
{"speaker": "Ryabinin", "text": "I don’t mind if I do. You must knock it down a bit, prince. It would be too bad. The money is ready conclusively to the last farthing. As to paying the money down, there’ll be no hitch there.", "pos": 400603}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Why, you’ve got the forest for nothing as it is. He came to me too late, or I’d have fixed the price for him.", "pos": 401076}
{"speaker": "Ryabinin", "text": "Very close about money is Konstantin Dmitrievitch, there’s positively no dealing with him. I was bargaining for some wheat of him, and a pretty price I offered too.", "pos": 401275}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Why should I give you my goods for nothing? I didn’t pick it up on the ground, nor steal it either.", "pos": 401498}
{"speaker": "Ryabinin", "text": "Mercy on us! nowadays there’s no chance at all of stealing. With the open courts and everything done in style, nowadays there’s no question of stealing. We are just talking things over like gentlemen. His excellency’s asking too much for the forest. I can’t make both ends meet over it. I must ask for a little concession.", "pos": 401600}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But is the thing settled between you or not? If it’s settled, it’s useless haggling; but if it’s not. I’ll buy the forest.", "pos": 401925}
{"speaker": "Ryabinin", "text": "Here you are, the forest is mine. Take the money; it’s my forest. That’s Ryabinin’s way of doing business; he doesn’t haggle over every half-penny,", "pos": 402326}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I wouldn’t be in a hurry if I were you,", "pos": 402585}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "I’ve given my word, you know.", "pos": 402682}
{"speaker": "Ryabinin", "text": "It’s all youthfulness—positively nothing but boyishness. Why, I’m buying it, upon my honor, simply, believe me, for the glory of it, that Ryabinin, and no one else, should have bought the copse of Oblonsky. And as to the profits, why, I must make what God gives. In God’s name. If you would kindly sign the title-deed.... Ugh, these gentlefolks! They—they’re a nice lot!", "pos": 402827}
{"speaker": "Clerk", "text": "That’s so. But I can congratulate you on the purchase, Mihail Ignatitch?", "pos": 403420}
{"speaker": "Ryabinin", "text": "Well, well....", "pos": 403573}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, I wouldn’t say no to it. What an appetite I get in the country! Wonderful! Why didn’t you offer Ryabinin something?", "pos": 404974}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, damn him!", "pos": 405098}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Still, how you do treat him! You didn’t even shake hands with him. Why not shake hands with him?", "pos": 405114}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Because I don’t shake hands with a waiter, and a waiter’s a hundred times better than he is.", "pos": 405230}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "What a reactionist you are, really! What about the amalgamation of classes?", "pos": 405325}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Anyone who likes amalgamating is welcome to it, but it sickens me.", "pos": 405418}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "You’re a regular reactionist, I see.", "pos": 405487}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Really, I have never considered what I am. I am Konstantin Levin, and nothing else.", "pos": 405526}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "And Konstantin Levin very much out of temper,", "pos": 405612}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, I am out of temper, and do you know why? Because—excuse me—of your stupid sale....", "pos": 405695}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Come, enough about it! When did anybody ever sell anything without being told immediately after the sale, ‘It was worth much more’? But when one wants to sell, no one will give anything.... No, I see you’ve a grudge against that unlucky Ryabinin.", "pos": 405901}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Maybe I have. And do you know why? You’ll say again that I’m a reactionist, or some other terrible word; but all the same it does annoy and anger me to see on all sides the impoverishing of the nobility to which I belong, and, in spite of the amalgamation of classes, I’m glad to belong. And their impoverishment is not due to extravagance—that would be nothing; living in good style—that’s the proper thing for noblemen; it’s only the nobles who know how to do it. Now the peasants about us buy land, and I don’t mind that. The gentleman does nothing, while the peasant works and supplants the idle man. That’s as it ought to be. And I’m very glad for the peasant. But I do mind seeing the process of impoverishment from a sort of—I don’t know what to call it—innocence. Here a Polish speculator bought for half its value a magnificent estate from a young lady who lives in Nice. And there a merchant will get three acres of land, worth ten roubles, as security for the loan of one rouble. Here, for no kind of reason, you’ve made that rascal a present of thirty thousand roubles.", "pos": 406161}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, what should I have done? Counted every tree?", "pos": 407245}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Of course, they must be counted. You didn’t count them, but Ryabinin did. Ryabinin’s children will have means of livelihood and education, while yours maybe will not!", "pos": 407298}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, you must excuse me, but there’s something mean in this counting. We have our business and they have theirs, and they must make their profit. Anyway, the thing’s done, and there’s an end of it. And here come some poached eggs, my favorite dish. And Agafea Mihalovna will give us that marvelous herb-brandy....", "pos": 407467}
{"speaker": "Agafea Mihalovna", "text": "Well, you do praise it, anyway, but Konstantin Dmitrievitch, give him what you will—a crust of bread—he’ll eat it and walk away.", "pos": 407949}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "How wonderfully they make this soap. Only look; why, it’s a work of art.", "pos": 408596}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, everything’s brought to such a pitch of perfection nowadays. The theater, for instance, and the entertainments ... a—a—a! The electric light everywhere ... a—a—a!", "pos": 408804}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, the electric light. Yes. Oh, and where’s Vronsky now?", "pos": 409047}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Vronsky? he’s in Petersburg. He left soon after you did, and he’s not once been in Moscow since. And do you know, Kostya, I’ll tell you the truth. It’s your own fault. You took fright at the sight of your rival. But, as I told you at the time, I couldn’t say which had the better chance. Why didn’t you fight it out? I told you at the time that....", "pos": 409163}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Does he know, or doesn’t he, that I did make an offer?", "pos": 409768}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "If there was anything on her side at the time, it was nothing but a superficial attraction. His being such a perfect aristocrat, don’t you know, and his future position in society, had an influence not with her, but with her mother.", "pos": 410015}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Stay, stay. You talk of his being an aristocrat. But allow me to ask what it consists in, that aristocracy of Vronsky or of anybody else, beside which I can be looked down upon? You consider Vronsky an aristocrat, but I don’t. A man whose father crawled up from nothing at all by intrigue, and whose mother—God knows whom she wasn’t mixed up with.... No, excuse me, but I consider myself aristocratic, and people like me, who can point back in the past to three or four honorable generations of their family, of the highest degree of breeding (talent and intellect, of course that’s another matter), and have never curried favor with anyone, never depended on anyone for anything, like my father and my grandfather. And I know many such. You think it mean of me to count the trees in my forest, while you make Ryabinin a present of thirty thousand; but you get rents from your lands and I don’t know what, while I don’t and so I prize what’s come to me from my ancestors or been won by hard work.... We are aristocrats, and not those who can only exist by favor of the powerful of this world, and who can be bought for twopence halfpenny.", "pos": 410458}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, but whom are you attacking? I agree with you. Whom are you attacking? Though a good deal is not true that you say about Vronsky, but I won’t talk about that. I tell you straight out, if I were you, I should go back with me to Moscow, and....", "pos": 411634}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No; I don’t know whether you know it or not, but I don’t care. And I tell you—I did make an offer and was rejected, and Katerina Alexandrovna is nothing now to me but a painful and humiliating reminiscence.", "pos": 412097}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "What ever for? What nonsense!", "pos": 412306}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But we won’t talk about it. Please forgive me, if I’ve been nasty. You’re not angry with me, Stiva? Please don’t be angry,", "pos": 412338}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Of course not; not a bit, and no reason to be. I’m glad we’ve spoken openly. And do you know, stand-shooting in the morning is unusually good—why not go? I couldn’t sleep the night anyway, but I might go straight from shooting to the station.", "pos": 412592}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Capital.", "pos": 412837}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Of course I shall say Betsy has sent me to ask whether she’s coming to the races. Of course, I’ll go. Send to my house, and tell them to have out the carriage and three horses as quick as they can,", "pos": 418152}
{"speaker": "plump officer", "text": "What? Fortifying yourself for your work?", "pos": 419072}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "As you see,", "pos": 419164}
{"speaker": "plump officer", "text": "So you’re not afraid of getting fat?", "pos": 419267}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "What?", "pos": 419368}
{"speaker": "plump officer", "text": "You’re not afraid of getting fat?", "pos": 419456}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Waiter, sherry!", "pos": 419492}
{"speaker": "plump officer", "text": "You choose what we’re to drink,", "pos": 419685}
{"speaker": "young officer", "text": "Rhine wine, please. Let’s go into the billiard room,", "pos": 419770}
{"speaker": "Captain Yashvin", "text": "Ah! here he is! That’s it, Alexey. You must just eat a mouthful, now, and drink only one tiny glass.", "pos": 420247}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Oh, I’m not hungry.", "pos": 420586}
{"speaker": "Yashvin", "text": "There go the inseparables. Why didn’t you turn up at the Red Theater yesterday? Numerova wasn’t at all bad. Where were you?", "pos": 420608}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I was late at the Tverskoys’,", "pos": 420996}
{"speaker": "Yashvin", "text": "Ah!", "pos": 421042}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Ah! yes. Well, and what did you do yesterday? Win anything?", "pos": 422619}
{"speaker": "Yashvin", "text": "Eight thousand. But three don’t count; he won’t pay up.", "pos": 422887}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Oh, then you can afford to lose over me,", "pos": 422945}
{"speaker": "Yashvin", "text": "No chance of my losing. Mahotin’s the only one that’s risky.", "pos": 423063}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Come along, I’ve finished,", "pos": 423235}
{"speaker": "Yashvin", "text": "It’s too early for me to dine, but I must have a drink. I’ll come along directly. Hi, wine! No, all right. You’re going home, so I’ll go with you. Get up, don’t go on sleeping,", "pos": 423378}
{"speaker": "Petritsky", "text": "Your brother’s been here. He waked me up, damn him, and said he’d look in again. Oh, do shut up, Yashvin! Shut up! You’d better tell me what to drink; such a nasty taste in my mouth, that....", "pos": 424149}
{"speaker": "Yashvin", "text": "Brandy’s better than anything. Tereshtchenko! brandy for your master and cucumbers,", "pos": 424539}
{"speaker": "Petritsky", "text": "Brandy, do you think? Eh? And you’ll drink something? All right then, we’ll have a drink together! Vronsky, have a drink? There was a king in Thule. Vronsky, will you have a drink?", "pos": 424712}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Go along,", "pos": 425104}
{"speaker": "Yashvin", "text": "Where are you off to? Oh, here are your three horses,", "pos": 425175}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "To the stables, and I’ve got to see Bryansky, too, about the horses,", "pos": 425288}
{"speaker": "Petritsky", "text": "Oh, yes, we know your Bryansky.", "pos": 425714}
{"speaker": "Yashvin", "text": "Mind you’re not late! How’s my roan? is he doing all right?", "pos": 425748}
{"speaker": "Petritsky", "text": "Stop! Your brother left a letter and a note for you. Wait a bit; where are they?", "pos": 425977}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Well, where are they?", "pos": 426132}
{"speaker": "Petritsky", "text": "Where are they? That’s just the question!", "pos": 426156}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Come, tell me; this is silly!", "pos": 426270}
{"speaker": "Petritsky", "text": "I have not lighted the fire. Here somewhere about.", "pos": 426324}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Come, enough fooling! Where is the letter?", "pos": 426377}
{"speaker": "Petritsky", "text": "No, I’ve forgotten really. Or was it a dream? Wait a bit, wait a bit! But what’s the use of getting in a rage. If you’d drunk four bottles yesterday as I did you’d forget where you were lying. Wait a bit, I’ll remember! Wait a bit! This was how I was lying, and this was how he was standing. Yes—yes—yes.... Here it is!", "pos": 426422}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Where are you off to? I must go to Peterhof.", "pos": 427500}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "Has the mare come from Tsarskoe?", "pos": 427549}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Yes, but I’ve not seen her yet.", "pos": 427584}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "They say Mahotin’s Gladiator’s lame. Nonsense! But however are you going to race in this mud?", "pos": 427618}
{"speaker": "Petritsky", "text": "Here are my saviors! Here’s Yashvin ordering me to drink a pick-me-up.", "pos": 427732}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "Well, you did give it to us yesterday, you didn’t let us get a wink of sleep all night.", "pos": 427918}
{"speaker": "Petritsky", "text": "Oh, didn’t we make a pretty finish! Volkov climbed onto the roof and began telling us how sad he was. I said: ‘Let’s have music, the funeral march!’ He fairly dropped asleep on the roof over the funeral march.", "pos": 428045}
{"speaker": "Yashvin", "text": "Drink it up; you positively must drink the brandy, and then seltzer water and a lot of lemon, and then a little champagne—just a small bottle.", "pos": 428275}
{"speaker": "Petritsky", "text": "Come, there’s some sense in that. Stop a bit, Vronsky. We’ll all have a drink.", "pos": 428504}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "No; good-bye all of you. I’m not going to drink today.", "pos": 428585}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "Why, are you gaining weight? All right, then we must have it alone. Give us the seltzer water and lemon.", "pos": 428642}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Vronsky!", "pos": 428749}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Well?", "pos": 428805}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You’d better get your hair cut, it’ll weigh you down, especially at the top.", "pos": 428813}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "To the stables! Later!", "pos": 429077}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Well, how’s Frou-Frou?", "pos": 430056}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "All right, sir. Better not go in. I’ve put a muzzle on her, and the mare’s fidgety. Better not go in, it’ll excite the mare.", "pos": 430107}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "No, I’m going in. I want to look at her.", "pos": 430338}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "Come along, then,", "pos": 430381}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "The horse is here belonging to Mak... Mak... I never can say the name,", "pos": 431477}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Mahotin? Yes, he’s my most serious rival,", "pos": 431656}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "If you were riding him. I’d bet on you.", "pos": 431714}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Frou-Frou’s more nervous; he’s stronger,", "pos": 431779}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "In a steeplechase it all depends on riding and on pluck,", "pos": 431877}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Don’t you think I want more thinning down?", "pos": 432169}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "Oh, no. Please, don’t speak loud. The mare’s fidgety,", "pos": 432214}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "There, you see how fidgety she is,", "pos": 434611}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "There, darling! There!", "pos": 434669}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Quiet, darling, quiet! Well, I rely on you, then, half-past six on the ground.", "pos": 435443}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "All right. Oh, where are you going, my lord?", "pos": 435884}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I’ve got to go to Bryansky’s; I shall be home within an hour. How often I’m asked that question today!", "pos": 436338}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "The great thing’s to keep quiet before a race, don’t get out of temper or upset about anything.", "pos": 436621}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "All right. What a pity! It was muddy before, now it will be a perfect swamp. What business is it of theirs? Why does everybody feel called upon to concern himself about me? And why do they worry me so? Just because they see that this is something they can’t understand. If it were a common, vulgar, worldly intrigue, they would have left me alone. They feel that this is something different, that this is not a mere pastime, that this woman is dearer to me than life. And this is incomprehensible, and that’s why it annoys them. Whatever our destiny is or may be, we have made it ourselves, and we do not complain of it. No, they must needs teach us how to live. They haven’t an idea of what happiness is; they don’t know that without our love, for us there is neither happiness nor unhappiness—no life at all,", "pos": 436730}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Yes, she was unhappy before, but proud and at peace; and now she cannot be at peace and feel secure in her dignity, though she does not show it. Yes, we must put an end to it. Throw up everything, she and I, and hide ourselves somewhere alone with our love,", "pos": 439614}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Has your master come?", "pos": 441000}
{"speaker": "Gardener", "text": "No, sir. The mistress is at home. But will you please go to the front door; there are servants there. They’ll open the door.", "pos": 441045}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "No, I’ll go in from the garden.", "pos": 441197}
{"speaker": "Child", "text": "What does it mean? Who is he? How ought I to love him? If I don’t know, it’s my fault; either I’m stupid or a naughty boy,", "pos": 443410}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "What’s the matter? You are ill?", "pos": 445329}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "No, I’m quite well. I did not expect ... thee.", "pos": 445622}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Mercy! what cold hands!", "pos": 445738}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "You startled me. I’m alone, and expecting Seryozha; he’s out for a walk; they’ll come in from this side.", "pos": 445773}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Forgive me for coming, but I couldn’t pass the day without seeing you,", "pos": 445958}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Forgive you? I’m so glad!", "pos": 446197}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "But you’re ill or worried. What were you thinking of?", "pos": 446225}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Always the same thing,", "pos": 446342}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Tell him or not tell him? He is so happy, so absorbed in his races that he won’t understand as he ought, he won’t understand all the gravity of this fact to us.", "pos": 447058}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "But you haven’t told me what you were thinking of when I came in, please tell me! I see something has happened. Do you suppose I can be at peace, knowing you have a trouble I am not sharing? Tell me, for God’s sake,", "pos": 447279}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, I shan’t be able to forgive him if he does not realize all the gravity of it. Better not tell; why put him to the proof?", "pos": 447880}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "For God’s sake!", "pos": 448128}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Shall I tell you?", "pos": 448176}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Yes, yes, yes....", "pos": 448196}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I’m with child. Yes, he realizes all the gravity of it,", "pos": 448216}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Yes. Neither you nor I have looked on our relations as a passing amusement, and now our fate is sealed. It is absolutely necessary to put an end to the deception in which we are living.", "pos": 449253}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Put an end? How put an end, Alexey?", "pos": 449510}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Leave your husband and make our life one.", "pos": 449630}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "It is one as it is,", "pos": 449674}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Yes, but altogether; altogether.", "pos": 449728}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "But how, Alexey, tell me how? Is there any way out of such a position? Am I not the wife of my husband?", "pos": 449763}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "There is a way out of every position. We must take our line. Anything’s better than the position in which you’re living. Of course, I see how you torture yourself over everything—the world and your son and your husband.", "pos": 449943}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh, not over my husband. I don’t know him, I don’t think of him. He doesn’t exist.", "pos": 450176}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "You’re not speaking sincerely. I know you. You worry about him too.", "pos": 450293}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh, he doesn’t even know. But we won’t talk of him.", "pos": 450363}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Whether he knows or not, that’s nothing to do with us. We cannot ... you cannot stay like this, especially now.", "pos": 451152}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "What’s to be done, according to you?", "pos": 451320}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Tell him everything, and leave him.", "pos": 451541}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Very well, let us suppose I do that. Do you know what the result of that would be? I can tell you it all beforehand. Eh, you love another man, and have entered into criminal intrigues with him? I warned you of the results in the religious, the civil, and the domestic relation. You have not listened to me. Now I cannot let you disgrace my name,— disgrace my name, and and more in the same style. In general terms, he’ll say in his official manner, and with all distinctness and precision, that he cannot let me go, but will take all measures in his power to prevent scandal. And he will calmly and punctually act in accordance with his words. That’s what will happen. He’s not a man, but a machine, and a spiteful machine when he’s angry,", "pos": 451579}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "But, Anna, we absolutely must, anyway, tell him, and then be guided by the line he takes.", "pos": 452861}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "What, run away?", "pos": 453023}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "And why not run away? I don’t see how we can keep on like this. And not for my sake—I see that you suffer.", "pos": 453041}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, run away, and become your mistress,", "pos": 453150}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Anna,", "pos": 453211}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, become your mistress, and complete the ruin of....", "pos": 453257}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I beg you, I entreat you, never speak to me of that!", "pos": 454043}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "But, Anna....", "pos": 454196}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Never. Leave it to me. I know all the baseness, all the horror of my position; but it’s not so easy to arrange as you think. And leave it to me, and do what I say. Never speak to me of it. Do you promise me?... No, no, promise!...", "pos": 454212}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I promise everything, but I can’t be at peace, especially after what you have told me. I can’t be at peace, when you can’t be at peace....", "pos": 454445}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I? Yes, I am worried sometimes; but that will pass, if you will never talk about this. When you talk about it—it’s only then it worries me.", "pos": 454586}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I don’t understand,", "pos": 454744}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I know, how hard it is for your truthful nature to lie, and I grieve for you. I often think that you have ruined your whole life for me.", "pos": 454775}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I was just thinking the very same thing, how could you sacrifice everything for my sake? I can’t forgive myself that you’re unhappy!", "pos": 454937}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I unhappy? I am like a hungry man who has been given food. He may be cold, and dressed in rags, and ashamed, but he is not unhappy. I unhappy? No, this is my unhappiness....", "pos": 455083}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "When?", "pos": 455796}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Tonight, at one o’clock. Well, au revoir. I must soon be getting ready for the races. Betsy promised to fetch me.", "pos": 455856}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Where’s Cord?", "pos": 459294}
{"speaker": "stable-boy", "text": "In the stable, putting on the saddle.", "pos": 459335}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I’m not too late?", "pos": 459467}
{"speaker": "Cord", "text": "All right! All right! don’t upset yourself!", "pos": 459487}
{"speaker": "Alexander Vronsky", "text": "Did you get my note? There’s never any finding you.", "pos": 461579}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I got it, and I really can’t make out what you are worrying yourself about,", "pos": 462054}
{"speaker": "Alexander Vronsky", "text": "I’m worrying myself because the remark has just been made to me that you weren’t here, and that you were seen in Peterhof on Monday.", "pos": 462145}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "There are matters which only concern those directly interested in them, and the matter you are so worried about is....", "pos": 462280}
{"speaker": "Alexander Vronsky", "text": "Yes, but if so, you may as well cut the service....", "pos": 462401}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I beg you not to meddle, and that’s all I have to say.", "pos": 462455}
{"speaker": "Alexander Vronsky", "text": "I only wanted to give you Mother’s letter. Answer it, and don’t worry about anything just before the race. Bonne chance,", "pos": 462814}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "So you won’t recognize your friends! How are you, mon cher? I came up yesterday, and I’m delighted that I shall see your triumph. When shall we meet?", "pos": 463056}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Come tomorrow to the messroom,", "pos": 463380}
{"speaker": "acquaintance", "text": "Oh, there’s Karenin! He’s looking for his wife, and she’s in the middle of the pavilion. Didn’t you see her?", "pos": 464384}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "No,", "pos": 464546}
{"speaker": "Cord", "text": "Get up; you won’t feel so excited.", "pos": 465951}
{"speaker": "Cord", "text": "Don’t be in a hurry, and remember one thing: don’t hold her in at the fences, and don’t urge her on; let her go as she likes.", "pos": 467118}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "All right, all right,", "pos": 467270}
{"speaker": "Cord", "text": "If you can, lead the race; but don’t lose heart till the last minute, even if you’re behind.", "pos": 467326}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Away!", "pos": 470035}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They’re off!", "pos": 470190}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They’re starting!", "pos": 470203}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "O the darling!", "pos": 472137}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Bravo!", "pos": 473059}
{"speaker": "Yashvin", "text": "Bravo, Vronsky!", "pos": 476250}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "O my sweet! He’s cleared it!", "pos": 476458}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "A—a—a! Ah! what have I done! The race lost! And my fault! shameful, unpardonable! And the poor darling, ruined mare! Ah! what have I done!", "pos": 479049}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Aha, young man!", "pos": 481978}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "How can people descend to that? how is it they don’t put an end to such a hideous position?", "pos": 484321}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "Do this for my sake,", "pos": 487317}
{"speaker": "the doctor", "text": "I will do it for the sake of Russia, countess,", "pos": 487385}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "A priceless man!", "pos": 487454}
{"speaker": "Sludin", "text": "How glad I am you’ve been seeing him! He’s not well, and I fancy.... Well, what do you think of him?", "pos": 488490}
{"speaker": "the doctor", "text": "I’ll tell you. It’s just this, if you don’t strain the strings, and then try to break them, you’ll find it a difficult job; but strain a string to its very utmost, and the mere weight of one finger on the strained string will snap it. And with his close assiduity, his conscientious devotion to his work, he’s strained to the utmost; and there’s some outside burden weighing on him, and not a light one. Will you be at the races? Yes, yes, to be sure; it does waste a lot of time,", "pos": 488608}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "It’s too early for Betsy. How unlucky! Can he be going to stay the night? Ah, how nice of you! You’re staying the night, I hope? and now we’ll go together. Only it’s a pity I’ve promised Betsy. She’s coming for me.", "pos": 490740}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Oh, I’m not going to separate the inseparables. I’m going with Mihail Vassilievitch. I’m ordered exercise by the doctors too. I’ll walk, and fancy myself at the springs again.", "pos": 491790}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "There’s no hurry. Would you like tea? Bring in tea, and tell Seryozha that Alexey Alexandrovitch is here. Well, tell me, how have you been? Mihail Vassilievitch, you’ve not been to see me before. Look how lovely it is out on the terrace. You don’t look quite well,", "pos": 492007}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Yes, the doctor’s been with me today and wasted an hour of my time. I feel that someone of our friends must have sent him: my health’s so precious, it seems.", "pos": 492668}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "No; what did he say?", "pos": 492839}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Ah, the young man! He’s grown. Really, he’s getting quite a man. How are you, young man?", "pos": 493694}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "It’s time to start, though. I’ve come to bring you some money, too, for nightingales, we know, can’t live on fairy tales. You want it, I expect?", "pos": 494627}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "No, I don’t ... yes, I do. But you’ll come back here after the races, I suppose?", "pos": 494951}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Oh, yes! And here’s the glory of Peterhof, Princess Tverskaya. What elegance! Charming! Well, let us be starting too, then.", "pos": 495107}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I’m going; good-bye! It was ever so nice of you to come.", "pos": 495513}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Well, au revoir, then! You’ll come back for some tea; that’s delightful!", "pos": 495712}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Nothing but ambition, nothing but the desire to get on, that’s all there is in his soul, as for these lofty ideals, love of culture, religion, they are only so many tools for getting on.", "pos": 496864}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "There’s so much splendor here that one’s eyes are dazzled,", "pos": 497452}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Danger in the races of officers, of cavalry men, is an essential element in the race. If England can point to the most brilliant feats of cavalry in military history, it is simply owing to the fact that she has historically developed this force both in beasts and in men. Sport has, in my opinion, a great value, and as is always the case, we see nothing but what is most superficial.", "pos": 499858}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "It’s not superficial. One of the officers, they say, has broken two ribs.", "pos": 500245}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "We’ll admit, princess, that that’s not superficial, but internal. But that’s not the point, we mustn’t forget that those who are taking part in the race are military men, who have chosen that career, and one must allow that every calling has its disagreeable side. It forms an integral part of the duties of an officer. Low sports, such as prize-fighting or Spanish bull-fights, are a sign of barbarity. But specialized trials of skill are a sign of development.", "pos": 500442}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "No, I shan’t come another time; it’s too upsetting. Isn’t it, Anna?", "pos": 500991}
{"speaker": "Another lady", "text": "It is upsetting, but one can’t tear oneself away. If I’d been a Roman woman I should never have missed a single circus.", "pos": 501084}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "Princess, bets!", "pos": 501995}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Who’s your favorite?", "pos": 502079}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "Anna and I are for Kuzovlev,", "pos": 502102}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "I’m for Vronsky. A pair of gloves? Done! But it is a pretty sight, isn’t it?", "pos": 502148}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I admit that manly sports do not....", "pos": 502324}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "But here’s this lady too, and others very much moved as well; it’s very natural,", "pos": 502945}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Ah, I don’t care!", "pos": 504106}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Let us go, let us go!", "pos": 504964}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Let us go, if you like,", "pos": 505168}
{"speaker": "general", "text": "He’s broken his leg too, so they say. This is beyond everything.", "pos": 505283}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Stiva! Stiva!", "pos": 505764}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Once more I offer you my arm if you want to be going,", "pos": 505873}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "No, no, let me be, I’ll stay.", "pos": 506064}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "For the third time I offer you my arm,", "pos": 506628}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "No, Alexey Alexandrovitch; I brought Anna and I promised to take her home,", "pos": 506804}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Excuse me, princess, but I see that Anna’s not very well, and I wish her to come home with me.", "pos": 506895}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "I’ll send to him and find out, and let you know,", "pos": 507168}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Is he killed or not? Is it true? Will he come or not? Shall I see him today?", "pos": 507470}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "What an inclination we all have, though, for these cruel spectacles. I observe....", "pos": 508116}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Eh? I don’t understand,", "pos": 508212}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I am obliged to tell you,", "pos": 508332}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "So now we are to have it out,", "pos": 508370}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I am obliged to tell you that your behavior has been unbecoming today,", "pos": 508440}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "In what way has my behavior been unbecoming?", "pos": 508539}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Mind,", "pos": 508832}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "What did you consider unbecoming?", "pos": 508936}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "The despair you were unable to conceal at the accident to one of the riders. I have already begged you so to conduct yourself in society that even malicious tongues can find nothing to say against you. There was a time when I spoke of your inward attitude, but I am not speaking of that now. Now I speak only of your external attitude. You have behaved improperly, and I would wish it not to occur again.", "pos": 508986}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "She is smiling at my suspicions. Yes, she will tell me directly what she told me before; that there is no foundation for my suspicions, that it’s absurd. Possibly I was mistaken. If so, I beg your pardon.", "pos": 510054}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "No, you were not mistaken. You were not mistaken. I was, and I could not help being in despair. I hear you, but I am thinking of him. I love him, I am his mistress; I can’t bear you; I’m afraid of you, and I hate you.... You can do what you like to me.", "pos": 510651}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Very well! But I expect a strict observance of the external forms of propriety till such time as I may take measures to secure my honor and communicate them to you.", "pos": 511369}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "I sent to Alexey to find out how he is, and he writes me he is quite well and unhurt, but in despair.", "pos": 511783}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "So he will be here. What a good thing I told him all! My God, how light it is! It’s dreadful, but I do love to see his face, and I do love this fantastic light.... My husband! Oh! yes.... Well, thank God! everything’s over with him.", "pos": 511887}
{"speaker": "German princess", "text": "I hope the roses will soon come back to this pretty little face,", "pos": 513452}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Who are you? What are you? Are you really the exquisite creature I imagine you to be? But for goodness’ sake don’t suppose, that I would force my acquaintance on you, I simply admire you and like you.", "pos": 517976}
{"speaker": "unknown girl", "text": "I like you too, and you’re very, very sweet. And I should like you better still, if I had time,", "pos": 518197}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Mamma, couldn’t I speak to her?", "pos": 520344}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Oh, if you want to so much, I’ll find out about her first and make her acquaintance myself. What do you see in her out of the way? A companion, she must be. If you like, I’ll make acquaintance with Madame Stahl; I used to know her belle-sœur,", "pos": 520510}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "How wonderfully sweet she is! Look how natural and sweet it all is.", "pos": 520953}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "It’s so funny to see your engouements. No, we’d better go back. What was it?", "pos": 521100}
{"speaker": "colonel", "text": "Scandalous and disgraceful! The one thing to be dreaded is meeting Russians abroad. That tall gentleman was abusing the doctor, flinging all sorts of insults at him because he wasn’t treating him quite as he liked, and he began waving his stick at him. It’s simply a scandal!", "pos": 521714}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Oh, how unpleasant! Well, and how did it end?", "pos": 522016}
{"speaker": "colonel", "text": "Luckily at that point that ... the one in the mushroom hat ... intervened. A Russian lady, I think she is,", "pos": 522085}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Mademoiselle Varenka?", "pos": 522212}
{"speaker": "colonel", "text": "Yes, yes. She came to the rescue before anyone; she took the man by the arm and led him away.", "pos": 522249}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "There, mamma, you wonder that I’m enthusiastic about her.", "pos": 522345}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Allow me to make your acquaintance. My daughter has lost her heart to you. Possibly you do not know me. I am.... I am....", "pos": 523356}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "That feeling is more than reciprocal, princess,", "pos": 523521}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "What a good deed you did yesterday to our poor compatriot!", "pos": 523599}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "I don’t remember. I don’t think I did anything,", "pos": 523705}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Why, you saved that Levin from disagreeable consequences.", "pos": 523765}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "Yes, sa compagne called me, and I tried to pacify him, he’s very ill, and was dissatisfied with the doctor. I’m used to looking after such invalids.", "pos": 523825}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Yes, I’ve heard you live at Mentone with your aunt—I think—Madame Stahl: I used to know her belle-sœur.", "pos": 523976}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "No, she’s not my aunt. I call her mamma, but I am not related to her; I was brought up by her,", "pos": 524082}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Well, and what’s this Levin going to do?", "pos": 524379}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "He’s going away,", "pos": 524442}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Well, see, Kitty, your intense desire to make friends with Mademoiselle....", "pos": 524609}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "Varenka, that’s what everyone calls me. I have long wished for this too,", "pos": 524687}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "But you are so busy.", "pos": 525134}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "Oh, no, I’m not at all busy. Varenka, mamma’s calling!", "pos": 525157}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Kitty plays, and we have a piano; not a good one, it’s true, but you will give us so much pleasure,", "pos": 527693}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "You have an extraordinary talent,", "pos": 528333}
{"speaker": "colonel", "text": "Look, what an audience has collected to listen to you.", "pos": 528522}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "I am very glad it gives you pleasure. Am I to sing again, or is that enough?", "pos": 528691}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "If it had been I, how proud I should have been! How delighted I should have been to see that crowd under the windows! But she’s utterly unmoved by it. Her only motive is to avoid refusing and to please mamma. What is there in her? What is it gives her the power to look down on everything, to be calm independently of everything? How I should like to know it and to learn it of her!", "pos": 529059}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "Let’s skip that,", "pos": 529806}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Very well, the next one,", "pos": 529936}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "No, no, let’s have that one.", "pos": 530077}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Am I right, that you have some reminiscences connected with that song? Don’t tell me, only say if I’m right.", "pos": 530389}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "No, why not? I’ll tell you simply. Yes, it brings up memories, once painful ones. I cared for someone once, and I used to sing him that song. I cared for him, and he cared for me; but his mother did not wish it, and he married another girl. He’s living now not far from us, and I see him sometimes. You didn’t think I had a love story too,", "pos": 530535}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I didn’t think so? Why, if I were a man, I could never care for anyone else after knowing you. Only I can’t understand how he could, to please his mother, forget you and make you unhappy; he had no heart.", "pos": 531142}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "Oh, no, he’s a very good man, and I’m not unhappy; quite the contrary, I’m very happy. Well, so we shan’t be singing any more now,", "pos": 531349}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "How good you are! how good you are! If I could only be even a little like you!", "pos": 531520}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "Why should you be like anyone? You’re nice as you are,", "pos": 531650}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "No, I’m not nice at all. Come, tell me.... Stop a minute, let’s sit down. Tell me, isn’t it humiliating to think that a man has disdained your love, that he hasn’t cared for it?...", "pos": 531754}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "But he didn’t disdain it; I believe he cared for me, but he was a dutiful son....", "pos": 531989}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Yes, but if it hadn’t been on account of his mother, if it had been his own doing?...", "pos": 532073}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "In that case he would have done wrong, and I should not have regretted him,", "pos": 532291}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "But the humiliation, the humiliation one can never forget, can never forget,", "pos": 532460}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "Where is the humiliation? Why, you did nothing wrong?", "pos": 532632}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Worse than wrong—shameful.", "pos": 532688}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "Why, what is there shameful? You didn’t tell a man, who didn’t care for you, that you loved him, did you?", "pos": 532775}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Of course not; I never said a word, but he knew it. No, no, there are looks, there are ways; I can’t forget it, if I live a hundred years.", "pos": 532895}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "Why so? I don’t understand. The whole point is whether you love him now or not,", "pos": 533036}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I hate him; I can’t forgive myself.", "pos": 533167}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "Why, what for?", "pos": 533205}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "The shame, the humiliation!", "pos": 533222}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "Oh! if everyone were as sensitive as you are! There isn’t a girl who hasn’t been through the same. And it’s all so unimportant.", "pos": 533252}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Why, what is important?", "pos": 533398}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "Oh, there’s so much that’s important,", "pos": 533483}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Why, what?", "pos": 533546}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "Oh, so much that’s more important,", "pos": 533559}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Kitty, it’s cold! Either get a shawl, or come indoors.", "pos": 533708}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "It really is time to go in! I have to go on to Madame Berthe’s; she asked me to.", "pos": 533765}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "What is it, what is this of such importance that gives you such tranquillity? You know, tell me!", "pos": 533967}
{"speaker": "colonel", "text": "Allow me to see you home,", "pos": 534363}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Yes, how can you go alone at night like this? Anyway, I’ll send Parasha.", "pos": 534409}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "No, I always go about alone and nothing ever happens to me,", "pos": 534602}
{"speaker": "Madame Stahl", "text": "in all human sorrows nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ’s compassion for us no sorrow is trifling", "pos": 536266}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Il ne faut jamais rien outrer,", "pos": 540020}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "How is it Anna Pavlovna’s not been to see us for so long? I’ve asked her, but she seems put out about something.", "pos": 540786}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "No, I’ve not noticed it, maman,", "pos": 540948}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Is it long since you went to see them?", "pos": 541010}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "We’re meaning to make an expedition to the mountains tomorrow,", "pos": 541051}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Well, you can go. Kitty, haven’t you had some misunderstanding with the Petrovs? Why has she given up sending the children and coming to see us?", "pos": 541132}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Yes, there was something unnatural about Anna Pavlovna, and utterly unlike her good nature, when she said angrily the day before yesterday: ‘There, he will keep waiting for you; he wouldn’t drink his coffee without you, though he’s grown so dreadfully weak.’ Yes, perhaps, too, she didn’t like it when I gave him the rug. It was all so simple, but he took it so awkwardly, and was so long thanking me, that I felt awkward too. And then that portrait of me he did so well. And most of all that look of confusion and tenderness! Yes, yes, that’s it! No, it can’t be, it oughtn’t to be! He’s so much to be pitied!", "pos": 543544}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Present me to your new friends. I like even your horrid Soden for making you so well again. Only it’s melancholy, very melancholy here. Who’s that?", "pos": 547300}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Well, she’s the second angel, then, she calls Mademoiselle Varenka angel number one.", "pos": 548034}
{"speaker": "Madame Berthe", "text": "Oh! Mademoiselle Varenka, she’s a real angel, allez,", "pos": 548149}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Here is papa come,", "pos": 548334}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Of course I know you; I know you very well. Where are you off to in such haste?", "pos": 548570}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "Maman’s here. She has not slept all night, and the doctor advised her to go out. I’m taking her her work.", "pos": 548758}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "So that’s angel number one? Come, so we shall see all your friends, even Madame Stahl, if she deigns to recognize me.", "pos": 548896}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Why, did you know her, papa?", "pos": 549184}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "I used to know her husband, and her too a little, before she’d joined the Pietists.", "pos": 549337}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "What is a Pietist, papa?", "pos": 549423}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "I don’t quite know myself. I only know that she thanks God for everything, for every misfortune, and thanks God too that her husband died. And that’s rather droll, as they didn’t get on together. Who’s that? What a piteous face!", "pos": 549539}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "That’s Petrov, an artist. And that’s his wife,", "pos": 550068}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Poor fellow! and what a nice face he has! Why don’t you go up to him? He wanted to speak to you.", "pos": 550302}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Well, let us go, then. How are you feeling today?", "pos": 550420}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "This is my daughter. Let me introduce myself.", "pos": 550599}
{"speaker": "Petrov", "text": "We expected you yesterday, princess,", "pos": 550740}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I meant to come, but Varenka said that Anna Pavlovna sent word you were not going.", "pos": 550911}
{"speaker": "Petrov", "text": "Not going! Anita! Anita!", "pos": 550996}
{"speaker": "Anna Pavlovna", "text": "Good morning, princess. Very glad to make your acquaintance. You’ve long been expected, prince.", "pos": 551325}
{"speaker": "Petrov", "text": "What did you send word to the princess that we weren’t going for?", "pos": 551527}
{"speaker": "Petrov's wife", "text": "Oh, mercy on us! I thought we weren’t going,", "pos": 551779}
{"speaker": "Petrov", "text": "What, when....", "pos": 551853}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Ah! ah! Oh, poor things!", "pos": 551963}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "And you must know they’ve three children, no servant, and scarcely any means. He gets something from the Academy. Oh, here’s Madame Stahl,", "pos": 552039}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "I don’t know if you remember me, but I must recall myself to thank you for your kindness to my daughter,", "pos": 552958}
{"speaker": "Madame Stahl", "text": "Prince Alexander Shtcherbatsky. Delighted! I have taken a great fancy to your daughter.", "pos": 553122}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "You are still in weak health?", "pos": 553315}
{"speaker": "Madame Stahl", "text": "Yes; I’m used to it,", "pos": 553347}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "It’s ten or eleven years since I had the honor of seeing you.", "pos": 553500}
{"speaker": "Madame Stahl", "text": "Yes; God sends the cross and sends the strength to bear it. Often one wonders what is the goal of this life?... The other side!", "pos": 553564}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "To do good, probably,", "pos": 553789}
{"speaker": "Madame Stahl", "text": "That is not for us to judge. So you will send me that book, dear count? I’m very grateful to you,", "pos": 553856}
{"speaker": "Moscow colonel", "text": "That’s our aristocracy, prince!", "pos": 554244}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "She’s just the same,", "pos": 554403}
{"speaker": "Moscow colonel", "text": "Did you know her before her illness, prince—that’s to say before she took to her bed?", "pos": 554446}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Yes. She took to her bed before my eyes,", "pos": 554534}
{"speaker": "Moscow colonel", "text": "They say it’s ten years since she has stood on her feet.", "pos": 554594}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "She doesn’t stand up because her legs are too short. She’s a very bad figure.", "pos": 554653}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Papa, it’s not possible!", "pos": 554733}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "That’s what wicked tongues say, my darling. And your Varenka catches it too. Oh, these invalid ladies!", "pos": 554773}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, no, papa! Varenka worships her. And then she does so much good! Ask anyone! Everyone knows her and Aline Stahl.", "pos": 554890}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Perhaps so, but it’s better when one does good so that you may ask everyone and no one knows.", "pos": 555033}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Well, but what did you buy this mass of things for?", "pos": 558656}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "One goes for a walk, one looks in a shop, and they ask you to buy. ‘Erlaucht, Durchlaucht?’ Directly they say ‘Durchlaucht,’ I can’t hold out. I lose ten thalers.", "pos": 558779}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "It’s simply from boredom,", "pos": 558944}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Of course it is. Such boredom, my dear, that one doesn’t know what to do with oneself.", "pos": 558991}
{"speaker": "Marya Yevgenyevna", "text": "How can you be bored, prince? There’s so much that’s interesting now in Germany,", "pos": 559080}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "But I know everything that’s interesting: the plum soup I know, and the pea sausages I know. I know everything.", "pos": 559187}
{"speaker": "colonel", "text": "No, you may say what you like, prince, there’s the interest of their institutions,", "pos": 559301}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "But what is there interesting about it? They’re all as pleased as brass halfpence. They’ve conquered everybody, and why am I to be pleased at that? I haven’t conquered anyone; and I’m obliged to take off my own boots, yes, and put them away too; in the morning, get up and dress at once, and go to the dining-room to drink bad tea! How different it is at home! You get up in no haste, you get cross, grumble a little, and come round again. You’ve time to think things over, and no hurry.", "pos": 559404}
{"speaker": "colonel", "text": "But time’s money, you forget that,", "pos": 559894}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Time, indeed, that depends! Why, there’s time one would give a month of for sixpence, and time you wouldn’t give half an hour of for any money. Isn’t that so, Katinka? What is it? why are you so depressed?", "pos": 559949}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I’m not depressed.", "pos": 560157}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Where are you off to? Stay a little longer,", "pos": 560178}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "I must be going home. Oh, dear! it’s a long while since I’ve laughed so much! How nice he is, your father! When shall I see you again?", "pos": 560244}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Mamma meant to go and see the Petrovs. Won’t you be there?", "pos": 560751}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "Yes. They’re getting ready to go away, so I promised to help them pack.", "pos": 560840}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Well, I’ll come too, then.", "pos": 560934}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "No, why should you?", "pos": 560963}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Why not? why not? why not? No, wait a minute; why not?", "pos": 560985}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "Oh, nothing; your father has come, and besides, they will feel awkward at your helping.", "pos": 561140}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "No, tell me why you don’t want me to be often at the Petrovs’. You don’t want me to—why not?", "pos": 561230}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "I didn’t say that,", "pos": 561325}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "No, please tell me!", "pos": 561368}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "Tell you everything?", "pos": 561390}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Everything, everything!", "pos": 561428}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "Well, there’s really nothing of any consequence; only that Mihail Alexeyevitch had meant to leave earlier, and now he doesn’t want to go away,", "pos": 561470}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Well, well!", "pos": 561669}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "Well, and for some reason Anna Pavlovna told him that he didn’t want to go because you are here. Of course, that was nonsense; but there was a dispute over it—over you. You know how irritable these sick people are. So you’d better not go.... You understand; you won’t be offended?...", "pos": 561735}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "And it serves me right!", "pos": 562209}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "How does it serve you right? I don’t understand,", "pos": 562459}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "It serves me right, because it was all sham; because it was all done on purpose, and not from the heart. What business had I to interfere with outsiders? And so it’s come about that I’m a cause of quarrel, and that I’ve done what nobody asked me to do. Because it was all a sham! a sham! a sham!...", "pos": 562520}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "A sham! with what object?", "pos": 562821}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, it’s so idiotic! so hateful! There was no need whatever for me.... Nothing but sham!", "pos": 562870}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "But with what object?", "pos": 563005}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "To seem better to people, to myself, to God; to deceive everyone. No! now I won’t descend to that. I’ll be bad; but anyway not a liar, a cheat.", "pos": 563029}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "But who is a cheat? You speak as if....", "pos": 563175}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I don’t talk about you, not about you at all. You’re perfection. Yes, yes, I know you’re all perfection; but what am I to do if I’m bad? This would never have been if I weren’t bad. So let me be what I am. I won’t be a sham. What have I to do with Anna Pavlovna? Let them go their way, and me go mine. I can’t be different.... And yet it’s not that, it’s not that.", "pos": 563324}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "What is not that?", "pos": 563691}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Everything. I can’t act except from the heart, and you act from principle. I liked you simply, but you most likely only wanted to save me, to improve me.", "pos": 563742}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "You are unjust,", "pos": 563898}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "But I’m not speaking of other people, I’m speaking of myself.", "pos": 563930}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Kitty, come here, show papa your necklace.", "pos": 563994}
{"speaker": "Her mother and father", "text": "What’s the matter? Why are you so red?", "pos": 564210}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Nothing. I’ll be back directly. Varenka, forgive me, do forgive me. I don’t remember what I said. I....", "pos": 564301}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "I really didn’t mean to hurt you,", "pos": 564841}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "I’ll come when you get married,", "pos": 565809}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I shall never marry.", "pos": 565857}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "Well, then, I shall never come.", "pos": 565880}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Well, then, I shall be married simply for that. Mind now, remember your promise,", "pos": 565914}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "You wouldn’t believe, what a pleasure this rural laziness is to me. Not an idea in one’s brain, as empty as a drum! Come, you’ve done enough trudging about in the heat,", "pos": 573461}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, I must just run round to the counting-house for a minute,", "pos": 574109}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "What? taken a stray swarm, Fomitch?", "pos": 578697}
{"speaker": "Fomitch", "text": "No, indeed, Konstantin Dmitrich! All we can do to keep our own! This is the second swarm that has flown away.... Luckily the lads caught them. They were ploughing your field. They unyoked the horses and galloped after them.", "pos": 578745}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, what do you say, Fomitch—start mowing or wait a bit?", "pos": 578971}
{"speaker": "Fomitch", "text": "Eh, well. Our way’s to wait till St. Peter’s Day. But you always mow sooner. Well, to be sure, please God, the hay’s good. There’ll be plenty for the beasts.", "pos": 579032}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "What do you think about the weather?", "pos": 579192}
{"speaker": "Fomitch", "text": "That’s in God’s hands. Maybe it will be fine.", "pos": 579231}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, let’s be going,", "pos": 579713}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Why be in such a hurry? Let’s stay a little. But how wet you are! Even though one catches nothing, it’s nice. That’s the best thing about every part of sport, that one has to do with nature. How exquisite this steely water is! These riverside banks always remind me of the riddle—do you know it? ‘The grass says to the water: we quiver and we quiver.’", "pos": 579746}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I don’t know the riddle,", "pos": 580126}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Do you know, I’ve been thinking about you. It’s beyond everything what’s being done in the district, according to what this doctor tells me. He’s a very intelligent fellow. And as I’ve told you before, I tell you again: it’s not right for you not to go to the meetings, and altogether to keep out of the district business. If decent people won’t go into it, of course it’s bound to go all wrong. We pay the money, and it all goes in salaries, and there are no schools, nor district nurses, nor midwives, nor drugstores—nothing.", "pos": 580187}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, I did try, you know. I can’t! and so there’s no help for it.", "pos": 580743}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "But why can’t you? I must own I can’t make it out. Indifference, incapacity—I won’t admit; surely it’s not simply laziness?", "pos": 580849}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "None of those things. I’ve tried, and I see I can do nothing,", "pos": 580975}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Why is it you can do nothing? You made an attempt and didn’t succeed, as you think, and you give in. How can you have so little self-respect?", "pos": 581262}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Self-respect! I don’t understand. If they’d told me at college that other people understood the integral calculus, and I didn’t, then pride would have come in. But in this case one wants first to be convinced that one has certain qualifications for this sort of business, and especially that all this business is of great importance.", "pos": 581406}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "What! do you mean to say it’s not of importance?", "pos": 581799}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I don’t think it important; it does not take hold of me, I can’t help it. Can they have finished ploughing?", "pos": 582052}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Come, really though, there’s a limit to everything. It’s very well to be original and genuine, and to dislike everything conventional—I know all about that; but really, what you’re saying either has no meaning, or it has a very wrong meaning. How can you think it a matter of no importance whether the peasant, whom you love as you assert....", "pos": 582354}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I never did assert it,", "pos": 582768}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "...dies without help? The ignorant peasant-women starve the children, and the people stagnate in darkness, and are helpless in the hands of every village clerk, while you have at your disposal a means of helping them, and don’t help them because to your mind it’s of no importance.", "pos": 582819}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "It’s both. I don’t see that it was possible....", "pos": 583476}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "What! was it impossible, if the money were properly laid out, to provide medical aid?", "pos": 583548}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Impossible, as it seems to me.... For the three thousand square miles of our district, what with our thaws, and the storms, and the work in the fields, I don’t see how it is possible to provide medical aid all over. And besides, I don’t believe in medicine.", "pos": 583636}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Oh, well, that’s unfair ... I can quote to you thousands of instances.... But the schools, anyway.", "pos": 583896}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Why have schools?", "pos": 583997}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "What do you mean? Can there be two opinions of the advantage of education? If it’s a good thing for you, it’s a good thing for everyone.", "pos": 584017}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Perhaps it may all be very good; but why should I worry myself about establishing dispensaries which I shall never make use of, and schools to which I shall never send my children, to which even the peasants don’t want to send their children, and to which I’ve no very firm faith that they ought to send them?", "pos": 584322}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Come, now.... In the first place, the dispensary is needed. We ourselves sent for the district doctor for Agafea Mihalovna.", "pos": 584870}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, well, but I fancy her wrist will never be straight again.", "pos": 584996}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "That remains to be proved.... Next, the peasant who can read and write is as a workman of more use and value to you.", "pos": 585060}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, you can ask anyone you like, the man that can read and write is much inferior as a workman. And mending the highroads is an impossibility; and as soon as they put up bridges they’re stolen.", "pos": 585179}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Still, that’s not the point. Do you admit that education is a benefit for the people?", "pos": 585418}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, I admit it,", "pos": 585742}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "If you admit that it is a benefit, then, as an honest man, you cannot help caring about it and sympathizing with the movement, and so wishing to work for it.", "pos": 586162}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But I still do not admit this movement to be just,", "pos": 586348}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "What! But you said just now....", "pos": 586444}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "That’s to say, I don’t admit it’s being either good or possible.", "pos": 586478}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "That you can’t tell without making the trial.", "pos": 586545}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, supposing that’s so, supposing that is so, still I don’t see, all the same, what I’m to worry myself about it for.", "pos": 586593}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "How so?", "pos": 586767}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No; since we are talking, explain it to me from the philosophical point of view,", "pos": 586777}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "I can’t see where philosophy comes in,", "pos": 586872}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I’ll tell you, then. I imagine the mainspring of all our actions is, after all, self-interest. Now in the local institutions I, as a nobleman, see nothing that could conduce to my prosperity, and the roads are not better and could not be better; my horses carry me well enough over bad ones. Doctors and dispensaries are no use to me. An arbitrator of disputes is no use to me. I never appeal to him, and never shall appeal to him. The schools are no good to me, but positively harmful, as I told you. For me the district institutions simply mean the liability to pay fourpence halfpenny for every three acres, to drive into the town, sleep with bugs, and listen to all sorts of idiocy and loathsomeness, and self-interest offers me no inducement.", "pos": 587062}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Excuse me, self-interest did not induce us to work for the emancipation of the serfs, but we did work for it.", "pos": 587833}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No! the emancipation of the serfs was a different matter. There self-interest did come in. One longed to throw off that yoke that crushed us, all decent people among us. But to be a town councilor and discuss how many dustmen are needed, and how chimneys shall be constructed in the town in which I don’t live—to serve on a jury and try a peasant who’s stolen a flitch of bacon, and listen for six hours at a stretch to all sorts of jabber from the counsel for the defense and the prosecution, and the president cross-examining my old half-witted Alioshka, ‘Do you admit, prisoner in the dock, the fact of the removal of the bacon?’ ‘Eh?’", "pos": 587990}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Well, what do you mean to say, then?", "pos": 588885}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I simply mean to say that those rights that touch me ... my interest, I shall always defend to the best of my ability; that when they made raids on us students, and the police read our letters, I was ready to defend those rights to the utmost, to defend my rights to education and freedom. I can understand compulsory military service, which affects my children, my brothers, and myself, I am ready to deliberate on what concerns me; but deliberating on how to spend forty thousand roubles of district council money, or judging the half-witted Alioshka—I don’t understand, and I can’t do it.", "pos": 588924}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "But tomorrow it’ll be your turn to be tried; would it have suited your tastes better to be tried in the old criminal tribunal?", "pos": 589622}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I’m not going to be tried. I shan’t murder anybody, and I’ve no need of it. Well, I tell you what, our district self-government and all the rest of it—it’s just like the birch branches we stick in the ground on Trinity Day, for instance, to look like a copse which has grown up of itself in Europe, and I can’t gush over these birch branches and believe in them.", "pos": 589751}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Excuse me, but you know one really can’t argue in that way,", "pos": 590396}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I imagine, that no sort of activity is likely to be lasting if it is not founded on self-interest, that’s a universal principle, a philosophical principle,", "pos": 590618}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "He too has a philosophy of his own at the service of his natural tendencies. Come, you’d better let philosophy alone. The chief problem of the philosophy of all ages consists just in finding the indispensable connection which exists between individual and social interests. But that’s not to the point; what is to the point is a correction I must make in your comparison. The birches are not simply stuck in, but some are sown and some are planted, and one must deal carefully with them. It’s only those peoples that have an intuitive sense of what’s of importance and significance in their institutions, and know how to value them, that have a future before them—it’s only those peoples that one can truly call historical. As for your dislike of it, excuse my saying so, that’s simply our Russian sloth and old serf-owner’s ways, and I’m convinced that in you it’s a temporary error and will pass.", "pos": 590967}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I must have physical exercise, or my temper’ll certainly be ruined. And send my scythe, please, to Tit, for him to set it, and bring it round tomorrow. I shall maybe do some mowing myself too,", "pos": 593594}
{"speaker": "The bailiff", "text": "Yes, sir.", "pos": 594225}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I fancy the fine weather will last. Tomorrow I shall start mowing.", "pos": 594288}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "I’m so fond of that form of field labor,", "pos": 594357}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I’m awfully fond of it. I sometimes mow myself with the peasants, and tomorrow I want to try mowing the whole day.", "pos": 594424}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "How do you mean? Just like one of the peasants, all day long?", "pos": 594617}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, it’s very pleasant,", "pos": 594681}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "It’s splendid as exercise, only you’ll hardly be able to stand it,", "pos": 594720}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I’ve tried it. It’s hard work at first, but you get into it. I dare say I shall manage to keep it up....", "pos": 594839}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Really! what an idea! But tell me, how do the peasants look at it? I suppose they laugh in their sleeves at their master’s being such a queer fish?", "pos": 594946}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, I don’t think so; but it’s so delightful, and at the same time such hard work, that one has no time to think about it.", "pos": 595096}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "But how will you do about dining with them? To send you a bottle of Lafitte and roast turkey out there would be a little awkward.", "pos": 595221}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, I’ll simply come home at the time of their noonday rest.", "pos": 595353}
{"speaker": "Tit", "text": "It’s ready, sir; it’s like a razor, cuts of itself,", "pos": 596697}
{"speaker": "the old man", "text": "Look’ee now, master, once take hold of the rope there’s no letting it go!", "pos": 597194}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I’ll try not to let it go,", "pos": 597332}
{"speaker": "the old man", "text": "Mind’ee,", "pos": 597434}
{"speaker": "one", "text": "It’s not set right; handle’s too high; see how he has to stoop to it,", "pos": 597760}
{"speaker": "another", "text": "Press more on the heel,", "pos": 597842}
{"speaker": "the old man", "text": "Never mind, he’ll get on all right. He’s made a start.... You swing it too wide, you’ll tire yourself out.... The master, sure, does his best for himself! But see the grass missed out! For such work us fellows would catch it!", "pos": 597882}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "What are they talking about, and why doesn’t he go back?", "pos": 602097}
{"speaker": "the old man", "text": "Lunch, sir,", "pos": 602293}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Is it really time? That’s right; lunch, then. The hay will be spoiled,", "pos": 602325}
{"speaker": "the old man", "text": "Not a bit of it, sir; mow in the rain, and you’ll rake in fine weather!", "pos": 602738}
{"speaker": "the old man", "text": "What do you say to my home-brew, eh? Good, eh? Good, eh?", "pos": 604737}
{"speaker": "the old man", "text": "Look’ee, the little emmets crawling! Come, master, dinner time!", "pos": 607176}
{"speaker": "the old man", "text": "Come, master, taste my sop,", "pos": 608212}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Could you cut Mashkin Upland too?—what do you think?", "pos": 610307}
{"speaker": "the old man", "text": "As God wills, the sun’s not high. A little vodka for the lads? Mashkin Upland’s to be cut—there’ll be some vodka.", "pos": 610386}
{"speaker": "voices", "text": "Why not cut it? Come on, Tit! We’ll look sharp! We can eat at night. Come on!", "pos": 610638}
{"speaker": "Tit", "text": "Come, lads, keep it up!", "pos": 610789}
{"speaker": "the old man", "text": "Get along, get along! I’ll mow you down, look out!", "pos": 610860}
{"speaker": "the old man", "text": "Another present for my old woman", "pos": 612979}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "We mowed the whole meadow! Oh, it is nice, delicious! And how have you been getting on?", "pos": 614528}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Mercy! what do you look like! And the door, do shut the door! You must have let in a dozen at least.", "pos": 614703}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Not one, on my honor. But if I have, I’ll catch them. You wouldn’t believe what a pleasure it is! How have you spent the day?", "pos": 615046}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Very well. But have you really been mowing the whole day? I expect you’re as hungry as a wolf. Kouzma has got everything ready for you.", "pos": 615174}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, I don’t feel hungry even. I had something to eat there. But I’ll go and wash.", "pos": 615312}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Yes, go along, go along, and I’ll come to you directly. Go along, make haste,", "pos": 615396}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, by the way, there’s a letter for you,", "pos": 616184}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Kouzma, bring it down, please. And mind you shut the doors.", "pos": 616237}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I have had a letter from Dolly; she’s at Ergushovo, and everything seems going wrong there. Do ride over and see her, please; help her with advice; you know all about it. She will be so glad to see you. She’s quite alone, poor thing. My mother-in-law and all of them are still abroad. That’s capital! I will certainly ride over to her. Or we’ll go together. She’s such a splendid woman, isn’t she?", "pos": 616389}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "They’re not far from here, then?", "pos": 616805}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Twenty-five miles. Or perhaps it is thirty. But a capital road. Capital, we’ll drive over.", "pos": 616840}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "I shall be delighted. Well, you have an appetite!", "pos": 616933}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Splendid! You can’t imagine what an effectual remedy it is for every sort of foolishness. I want to enrich medicine with a new word: Arbeitskur.", "pos": 617191}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Well, but you don’t need it, I should fancy.", "pos": 617338}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, but for all sorts of nervous invalids.", "pos": 617385}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Yes, it ought to be tried. I had meant to come to the mowing to look at you, but it was so unbearably hot that I got no further than the forest. I sat there a little, and went on by the forest to the village, met your old nurse, and sounded her as to the peasants’ view of you. As far as I can make out, they don’t approve of this. She said: ‘It’s not a gentleman’s work.’ Altogether, I fancy that in the people’s ideas there are very clear and definite notions of certain, as they call it, ‘gentlemanly’ lines of action. And they don’t sanction the gentry’s moving outside bounds clearly laid down in their ideas.", "pos": 617430}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Maybe so; but anyway it’s a pleasure such as I have never known in my life. And there’s no harm in it, you know. Is there? I can’t help it if they don’t like it. Though I do believe it’s all right. Eh?", "pos": 618047}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Altogether, you’re satisfied with your day?", "pos": 618269}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Quite satisfied. We cut the whole meadow. And such a splendid old man I made friends with there! You can’t fancy how delightful he was!", "pos": 618344}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Well, so you’re content with your day. And so am I. First, I solved two chess problems, and one a very pretty one—a pawn opening. I’ll show it you. And then—I thought over our conversation yesterday.", "pos": 618482}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Eh! our conversation yesterday?", "pos": 618684}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "I think you are partly right. Our difference of opinion amounts to this, that you make the mainspring self-interest, while I suppose that interest in the common weal is bound to exist in every man of a certain degree of advancement. Possibly you are right too, that action founded on material interest would be more desirable. You are altogether, as the French say, too primesautière a nature; you must have intense, energetic action, or nothing. So that’s what I think it is, my dear boy,", "pos": 618898}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, of course. But, do you know? I won’t stand up for my view. Whatever was it I was disputing about? Of course, I’m right, and he’s right, and it’s all first-rate. Only I must go round to the counting house and see to things.", "pos": 619651}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "If you want to go out, let’s go together. Come, we’ll go to the counting house, if you have to go there.", "pos": 620011}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, heavens! How’s Agafea Mihalovna’s hand? I’d positively forgotten her even.", "pos": 620230}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "It’s much better.", "pos": 620455}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, anyway I’ll run down to her. Before you’ve time to get your hat on, I’ll be back.", "pos": 620475}
{"speaker": "Marya Philimonovna", "text": "Just see, now, and you were quite in despair,", "pos": 627558}
{"speaker": "Lily", "text": "Please, some more.", "pos": 633295}
{"speaker": "Grisha", "text": "Eat yourself; let’s eat it together ... together.", "pos": 634750}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Mercy! Your new white frock! Tanya! Grisha!", "pos": 635288}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Lily has found a mushroom!", "pos": 636098}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My, what a beauty! as white as sugar,", "pos": 637792}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but thin....", "pos": 637884}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Yes, she has been ill.", "pos": 637899}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And so they’ve been bathing you too,", "pos": 637924}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "No; he’s only three months old,", "pos": 637989}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You don’t say so!", "pos": 638063}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "And have you any children?", "pos": 638083}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I’ve had four; I’ve two living—a boy and a girl. I weaned her last carnival.", "pos": 638112}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "How old is she?", "pos": 638191}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why, two years old.", "pos": 638209}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Why did you nurse her so long?", "pos": 638231}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s our custom; for three fasts....", "pos": 638264}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My, she keeps putting on and putting on, and she’ll never have done!", "pos": 639125}
{"speaker": "coachman", "text": "There’s some gentleman coming: the master of Pokrovskoe, I do believe.", "pos": 639450}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "You’re like a hen with your chickens, Darya Alexandrovna.", "pos": 639958}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Ah, how glad I am to see you!", "pos": 640018}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Glad to see me, but you didn’t let me know. My brother’s staying with me. I got a note from Stiva that you were here.", "pos": 640089}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "From Stiva?", "pos": 640209}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes; he writes that you are here, and that he thinks you might allow me to be of use to you,", "pos": 640263}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I know, of course, that that simply means that you would like to see me, and I’m exceedingly glad. Though I can fancy that, used to town housekeeping as you are, you must feel in the wilds here, and if there’s anything wanted, I’m altogether at your disposal.", "pos": 640993}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Oh, no! At first things were rather uncomfortable, but now we’ve settled everything capitally—thanks to my old nurse,", "pos": 641269}
{"speaker": "Marya Philimonovna", "text": "Won’t you get in, sir, we’ll make room this side!", "pos": 641646}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, I’ll walk. Children, who’d like to race the horses with me?", "pos": 641715}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid, Darya Alexandrovna! there’s no chance of my hurting or dropping her.", "pos": 642734}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "You know, Kitty’s coming here, and is going to spend the summer with me.", "pos": 643548}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Really. Then I’ll send you two cows, shall I? If you insist on a bill you shall pay me five roubles a month; but it’s really too bad of you.", "pos": 643623}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "No, thank you. We can manage very well now.", "pos": 643837}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, well, then, I’ll have a look at your cows, and if you’ll allow me, I’ll give directions about their food. Everything depends on their food.", "pos": 643883}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Yes, but still all this has to be looked after, and who is there to look after it?", "pos": 644428}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Kitty writes to me that there’s nothing she longs for so much as quiet and solitude,", "pos": 645377}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "And how is she—better?", "pos": 645512}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Thank God, she’s quite well again. I never believed her lungs were affected.", "pos": 645563}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, I’m very glad!", "pos": 645641}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Let me ask you, Konstantin Dmitrievitch, why is it you are angry with Kitty?", "pos": 645793}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I? I’m not angry with her,", "pos": 645944}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Yes, you are angry. Why was it you did not come to see us nor them when you were in Moscow?", "pos": 645985}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Darya Alexandrovna. I wonder really that with your kind heart you don’t feel this. How it is you feel no pity for me, if nothing else, when you know....", "pos": 646079}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "What do I know?", "pos": 646283}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "You know I made an offer and that I was refused,", "pos": 646301}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "What makes you suppose I know?", "pos": 646500}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Because everybody knows it....", "pos": 646533}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "That’s just where you are mistaken; I did not know it, though I had guessed it was so.", "pos": 646566}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, now you know it.", "pos": 646655}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "All I knew was that something had happened that made her dreadfully miserable, and that she begged me never to speak of it. And if she would not tell me, she would certainly not speak of it to anyone else. But what did pass between you? Tell me.", "pos": 646680}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I have told you.", "pos": 646928}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "When was it?", "pos": 646947}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "When I was at their house the last time.", "pos": 646962}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Do you know that. I am awfully, awfully sorry for her. You suffer only from pride....", "pos": 647005}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Perhaps so, but....", "pos": 647120}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "But she, poor girl ... I am awfully, awfully sorry for her. Now I see it all.", "pos": 647177}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, Darya Alexandrovna, you must excuse me,", "pos": 647257}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Good-bye, Darya Alexandrovna, till we meet again. No, wait a minute. Wait a minute, sit down.", "pos": 647326}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Please, please, don’t let us talk of this,", "pos": 647465}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "If I did not like you, if I did not know you, as I do know you.... Yes, I understand it all now. You can’t understand it; for you men, who are free and make your own choice, it’s always clear whom you love. But a girl’s in a position of suspense, with all a woman’s or maiden’s modesty, a girl who sees you men from afar, who takes everything on trust,—a girl may have, and often has, such a feeling that she cannot tell what to say.", "pos": 647633}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, if the heart does not speak....", "pos": 648242}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "No, the heart does speak; but just consider: you men have views about a girl, you come to the house, you make friends, you criticize, you wait to see if you have found what you love, and then, when you are sure you love her, you make an offer....", "pos": 648281}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, that’s not quite it.", "pos": 648530}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Anyway you make an offer, when your love is ripe or when the balance has completely turned between the two you are choosing from. But a girl is not asked. She is expected to make her choice, and yet she cannot choose, she can only answer ‘yes’ or ‘no.’", "pos": 648559}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, to choose between me and Vronsky,", "pos": 648814}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Darya Alexandrovna, that’s how one chooses a new dress or some purchase or other, not love. The choice has been made, and so much the better.... And there can be no repeating it. Ah, pride, pride! At the time when you made Kitty an offer she was just in a position in which she could not answer. She was in doubt. Doubt between you and Vronsky. Him she was seeing every day, and you she had not seen for a long while. Supposing she had been older ... I, for instance, in her place could have felt no doubt. I always disliked him, and so it has turned out.", "pos": 648983}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, that cannot be.... Darya Alexandrovna. I appreciate your confidence in me; I believe you are making a mistake. But whether I am right or wrong, that pride you so despise makes any thought of Katerina Alexandrovna out of the question for me,—you understand, utterly out of the question.", "pos": 649744}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "I will only say one thing more: you know that I am speaking of my sister, whom I love as I love my own children. I don’t say she cared for you, all I meant to say is that her refusal at that moment proves nothing.", "pos": 650055}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I don’t know! If you only knew how you are hurting me. It’s just as if a child of yours were dead, and they were to say to you: He would have been like this and like that, and he might have lived, and how happy you would have been in him. But he’s dead, dead, dead!...", "pos": 650271}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "How absurd you are! Yes, I see it all more and more clearly. So you won’t come to see us, then, when Kitty’s here?", "pos": 650568}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, I shan’t come. Of course I won’t avoid meeting Katerina Alexandrovna, but as far as I can, I will try to save her the annoyance of my presence.", "pos": 650792}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "You are very, very absurd. Very well then, let it be as though we had not spoken of this. What have you come for, Tanya?", "pos": 650942}
{"speaker": "Tanya", "text": "Where’s my spade, mamma?", "pos": 651190}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "I speak French, and you must too.", "pos": 651217}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "But why are you going? Do stay a little.", "pos": 651986}
{"speaker": "Old man", "text": "What weather for haying! What hay it’ll be! It’s tea, not hay! It’s like scattering grain to the ducks, the way they pick it up! Since dinner time they’ve carried a good half of it. The last load, eh?", "pos": 657608}
{"speaker": "Lad", "text": "The last, dad!", "pos": 658016}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Who’s that? Your son?", "pos": 658193}
{"speaker": "Old man", "text": "My baby,", "pos": 658230}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "What a fine fellow!", "pos": 658279}
{"speaker": "Old man", "text": "The lad’s all right.", "pos": 658301}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Married already?", "pos": 658324}
{"speaker": "Old man", "text": "Yes, it’s two years last St. Philip’s day.", "pos": 658343}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Any children?", "pos": 658388}
{"speaker": "Old man", "text": "Children indeed! Why, for over a year he was innocent as a babe himself, and bashful too. Well, the hay! It’s as fragrant as tea!", "pos": 658404}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, what am I going to do? How am I to set about it?", "pos": 663584}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Have a wife? Have work and the necessity of work? Leave Pokrovskoe? Buy land? Become a member of a peasant community? Marry a peasant girl? How am I to set about it? I haven’t slept all night, though, and I can’t think it out clearly. I’ll work it out later. One thing’s certain, this night has decided my fate. All my old dreams of home life were absurd, not the real thing. It’s all ever so much simpler and better.... How beautiful! How exquisite it all is in this exquisite night! And when was there time for that cloud-shell to form? Just now I looked at the sky, and there was nothing in it—only two white streaks. Yes, and so imperceptibly too my views of life changed! What’s that? Someone coming,", "pos": 664449}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, however good that life of simplicity and toil may be, I cannot go back to it. I love her.", "pos": 668279}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He will get angry, and will not listen to you,", "pos": 669027}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I can do nothing. Kindly leave the room!", "pos": 669236}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "No honor, no heart, no religion; a corrupt woman. I always knew it and always saw it, though I tried to deceive myself to spare her. I made a mistake in linking my life to hers; but there was nothing wrong in my mistake, and so I cannot be unhappy. It’s not I that am to blame, but she. But I have nothing to do with her. She does not exist for me.... I cannot be made unhappy by the fact that a contemptible woman has committed a crime. I have only to find the best way out of the difficult position in which she has placed me. And I shall find it. I’m not the first nor the last. Daryalov, Poltavsky, Prince Karibanov, Count Paskudin, Dram.... Yes, even Dram, such an honest, capable fellow ... Semyonov, Tchagin, Sigonin. Admitting that a certain quite irrational ridicule falls to the lot of these men, yet I never saw anything but a misfortune in it, and always felt sympathy for it. It is a misfortune which may befall anyone. And this misfortune has befallen me. The only thing to be done is to make the best of the position. Daryalov fought a duel....", "pos": 671296}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "There’s no doubt our society is still so barbarous (it’s not the same in England) that very many look favorably on the duel; but what result is attained by it? Suppose I call him out, suppose I call him out. Suppose I am taught, to shoot; I press the trigger, and it turns out I have killed him. What sense is there in murdering a man in order to define one’s relation to a guilty wife and son? I should still just as much have to decide what I ought to do with her. But what is more probable and what would doubtless occur—I should be killed or wounded. I, the innocent person, should be the victim—killed or wounded. It’s even more senseless. But apart from that, a challenge to fight would be an act hardly honest on my side. Don’t I know perfectly well that my friends would never allow me to fight a duel—would never allow the life of a statesman, needed by Russia, to be exposed to danger? Knowing perfectly well beforehand that the matter would never come to real danger, it would amount to my simply trying to gain a certain sham reputation by such a challenge. That would be dishonest, that would be false, that would be deceiving myself and others. A duel is quite irrational, and no one expects it of me. My aim is simply to safeguard my reputation, which is essential for the uninterrupted pursuit of my public duties.", "pos": 674723}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Apart from formal divorce, One might still do like Karibanov, Paskudin, and that good fellow Dram—that is, separate from one’s wife. No, it’s out of the question, out of the question! I cannot be unhappy, but neither she nor he ought to be happy.", "pos": 678913}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I must inform her of my conclusion, that thinking over the terrible position in which she has placed her family, all other solutions will be worse for both sides than an external status quo, and that such I agree to retain, on the strict condition of obedience on her part to my wishes, that is to say, cessation of all intercourse with her lover. By such a course only shall I be acting in accordance with the dictates of religion. In adopting this course, I am not casting off a guilty wife, but giving her a chance of amendment; and, indeed, difficult as the task will be to me, I shall devote part of my energies to her reformation and salvation.", "pos": 680338}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Yes, time will pass; time, which arranges all things, and the old relations will be reestablished, so far reestablished, that is, that I shall not be sensible of a break in the continuity of my life. She is bound to be unhappy, but I am not to blame, and so I cannot be unhappy. The horses can be taken out and I will see no one, see no one.", "pos": 682281}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "At our last conversation, I notified you of my intention to communicate to you my decision in regard to the subject of that conversation. Having carefully considered everything, I am writing now with the object of fulfilling that promise. My decision is as follows. Whatever your conduct may have been, I do not consider myself justified in breaking the ties in which we are bound by a Higher Power. The family cannot be broken up by a whim, a caprice, or even by the sin of one of the partners in the marriage, and our life must go on as it has done in the past. This is essential for me, for you, and for our son. I am fully persuaded that you have repented and do repent of what has called forth the present letter, and that you will cooperate with me in eradicating the cause of our estrangement, and forgetting the past. In the contrary event, you can conjecture what awaits you and your son. All this I hope to discuss more in detail in a personal interview. As the season is drawing to a close, I would beg you to return to Petersburg as quickly as possible, not later than Tuesday. All necessary preparations shall be made for your arrival here. I beg you to note that I attach particular significance to compliance with this request. P.S.—I enclose the money which may be needed for your expenses. Give this to the courier to be delivered to Anna Arkadyevna tomorrow at the summer villa,", "pos": 683710}
{"speaker": "Servant", "text": "Certainly, your excellency; tea to be served in the study?", "pos": 685616}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I saw Vronsky and did not tell him. At the very instant he was going away I would have turned him back and told him, but I changed my mind, because it was strange that I had not told him the first minute. Why was it I wanted to tell him and did not tell him?", "pos": 694043}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "Come, if only as a study in morals. I shall expect you,", "pos": 696014}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Nothing, I need nothing. You can go. I’ll dress at once and come down. I need nothing. My God! my God!", "pos": 696129}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Ah, what am I doing!", "pos": 697497}
{"speaker": "Annushka", "text": "The coffee is ready, and mademoiselle and Seryozha are waiting,", "pos": 697761}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Seryozha? What about Seryozha?", "pos": 697899}
{"speaker": "Annushka", "text": "He’s been naughty, I think,", "pos": 698033}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "In what way?", "pos": 698095}
{"speaker": "Annushka", "text": "Some peaches were lying on the table in the corner room. I think he slipped in and ate one of them on the sly.", "pos": 698110}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "Ah, mamma!", "pos": 699938}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "No, I won’t take her. I’ll go alone with my child. Yes, it’s very wrong. Leave him to me,", "pos": 700285}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "Mamma! I ... I ... didn’t....", "pos": 700690}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Seryozha, that was wrong, but you’ll never do it again, will you?... You love me? Can I help loving him? And can he ever join his father in punishing me? Is it possible he will not feel for me? Run along, run along to Mariette. Can it be that they won’t forgive me, won’t understand how it all couldn’t be helped? I mustn’t, mustn’t think. I must get ready. To go where? When? Whom to take with me? Yes, to Moscow by the evening train. Annushka and Seryozha, and only the most necessary things. But first I must write to them both. After what has happened, I cannot remain any longer in your house. I am going away, and taking my son with me. I don’t know the law, and so I don’t know with which of the parents the son should remain; but I take him with me because I cannot live without him. Be generous, leave him to me. Of my fault and my remorse I cannot speak, because.... No, there’s no need of anything. I have told my husband. And what more am I to write to him? No need of anything,", "pos": 700822}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Run and find out what it is,", "pos": 704678}
{"speaker": "footman", "text": "The courier has orders to wait for an answer,", "pos": 704912}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Very well,", "pos": 704969}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Preparations shall be made for your arrival here ... I attach particular significance to compliance....", "pos": 705198}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "He’s right! of course, he’s always right; he’s a Christian, he’s generous! Yes, vile, base creature! And no one understands it except me, and no one ever will; and I can’t explain it. They say he’s so religious, so high-principled, so upright, so clever; but they don’t see what I’ve seen. They don’t know how he has crushed my life for eight years, crushed everything that was living in me—he has not once even thought that I’m a live woman who must have love. They don’t know how at every step he’s humiliated me, and been just as pleased with himself. Haven’t I striven, striven with all my strength, to find something to give meaning to my life? Haven’t I struggled to love him, to love my son when I could not love my husband? But the time came when I knew that I couldn’t cheat myself any longer, that I was alive, that I was not to blame, that God has made me so that I must love and live. And now what does he do? If he’d killed me, if he’d killed him, I could have borne anything, I could have forgiven anything; but, no, he.... How was it I didn’t guess what he would do? He’s doing just what’s characteristic of his mean character. He’ll keep himself in the right, while me, in my ruin, he’ll drive still lower to worse ruin yet....", "pos": 705876}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "You can conjecture what awaits you and your son....", "pos": 707174}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "That’s a threat to take away my child, and most likely by their stupid law he can. But I know very well why he says it. He doesn’t believe even in my love for my child, or he despises it (just as he always used to ridicule it). He despises that feeling in me, but he knows that I won’t abandon my child, that I can’t abandon my child, that there could be no life for me without my child, even with him whom I love; but that if I abandoned my child and ran away from him, I should be acting like the most infamous, basest of women. He knows that, and knows that I am incapable of doing that.", "pos": 707228}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Our life must go on as it has done in the past....", "pos": 707866}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "That life was miserable enough in the old days; it has been awful of late. What will it be now? And he knows all that; he knows that I can’t repent that I breathe, that I love; he knows that it can lead to nothing but lying and deceit; but he wants to go on torturing me. I know him; I know that he’s at home and is happy in deceit, like a fish swimming in the water. No, I won’t give him that happiness. I’ll break through the spiderweb of lies in which he wants to catch me, come what may. Anything’s better than lying and deceit. But how? My God! my God! Was ever a woman so miserable as I am?... No; I will break through it, I will break through it!", "pos": 707919}
{"speaker": "footman", "text": "The courier asks if there’s an answer,", "pos": 710298}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "An answer? Yes. Let him wait. I’ll ring. What can I write? What can I decide upon alone? What do I know? What do I want? What is there I care for? I ought to see Alexey no one but he can tell me what I ought to do. I’ll go to Betsy’s, perhaps I shall see him there. I have received your letter.—A. We are not going,", "pos": 710362}
{"speaker": "Annushka", "text": "Not going at all?", "pos": 711285}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "No; don’t unpack till tomorrow, and let the carriage wait. I’m going to the princess’s.", "pos": 711305}
{"speaker": "Annushka", "text": "Which dress am I to get ready?", "pos": 711395}
{"speaker": "footman", "text": "From the count for the princess. The princess is in the garden; they will inform her immediately. Would you be pleased to walk into the garden?", "pos": 712712}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I slept badly,", "pos": 714245}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "How glad I am you’ve come! I’m tired, and was just longing to have some tea before they come. You might go with Masha, and try the croquet ground over there where they’ve been cutting it. We shall have time to talk a little over tea; we’ll have a cozy chat, eh?", "pos": 714378}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, especially as I can’t stay very long with you. I’m forced to go on to old Madame Vrede. I’ve been promising to go for a century,", "pos": 714776}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "No. I’m not going to let you go for anything. Really, if I were not fond of you, I should feel offended. One would think you were afraid my society would compromise you. Tea in the little dining-room, please. Alexey’s playing us false, he writes that he can’t come,", "pos": 715580}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Ah! How can you or your friends compromise anyone?", "pos": 716346}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "I can’t be more Catholic than the Pope,", "pos": 716774}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Stremov and Liza Merkalova, why, they’re the cream of the cream of society. Besides, they’re received everywhere, and I", "pos": 716826}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "have never been strict and intolerant. It’s simply that I haven’t the time.", "pos": 716981}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "No; you don’t care, perhaps, to meet Stremov? Let him and Alexey Alexandrovitch tilt at each other in the committee—that’s no affair of ours. But in the world, he’s the most amiable man I know, and a devoted croquet player. You shall see. And, in spite of his absurd position as Liza’s lovesick swain at his age, you ought to see how he carries off the absurd position. He’s very nice. Sappho Shtoltz you don’t know? Oh, that’s a new type, quite new. I must write to Alexey though. I’m telling him to come to dinner. I’ve one lady extra to dinner with me, and no man to take her in. Look what I’ve said, will that persuade him? Excuse me, I must leave you for a minute. Would you seal it up, please, and send it off? I have to give some directions.", "pos": 717059}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "It’s essential for me to see you. Come to the Vrede garden. I shall be there at six o’clock. She’s very sweet, and I always liked her,", "pos": 718248}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "You ought to like her. She raves about you. Yesterday she came up to me after the races and was in despair at not finding you. She says you’re a real heroine of romance, and that if she were a man she would do all sorts of mad things for your sake. Stremov says she does that as it is.", "pos": 718789}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "But do tell me, please, I never could make it out, do tell me, please, what are her relations with Prince Kaluzhsky, Mishka, as he’s called? I’ve met them so little. What does it mean?", "pos": 719077}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "It’s a new manner. They’ve all adopted that manner. They’ve flung their caps over the windmills. But there are ways and ways of flinging them.", "pos": 719521}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, but what are her relations precisely with Kaluzhsky?", "pos": 719678}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "You’re encroaching on Princess Myakaya’s special domain now. That’s the question of an enfant terrible. You’d better ask them,", "pos": 719845}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "No; you laugh, but I never could understand it. I can’t understand the husband’s rôle in it.", "pos": 720176}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "The husband? Liza Merkalova’s husband carries her shawl, and is always ready to be of use. But anything more than that in reality, no one cares to inquire. You know in decent society one doesn’t talk or think even of certain details of the toilet. That’s how it is with this.", "pos": 720318}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Will you be at Madame Rolandak’s fête?", "pos": 720596}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "I don’t think so. It’s like this, you see: I’m in a fortunate position. I understand you, and I understand Liza. Liza now is one of those naïve natures that, like children, don’t know what’s good and what’s bad. Anyway, she didn’t comprehend it when she was very young. And now she’s aware that the lack of comprehension suits her. Now, perhaps, she doesn’t know on purpose. But, anyway, it suits her. The very same thing, don’t you see, may be looked at tragically, and turned into a misery, or it may be looked at simply and even humorously. Possibly you are inclined to look at things too tragically.", "pos": 720677}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "How I should like to know other people just as I know myself! Am I worse than other people, or better? I think I’m worse.", "pos": 721600}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "Enfant terrible, enfant terrible! But here they are.", "pos": 721761}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Only fancy, we all but ran over two soldiers,", "pos": 723413}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I drove here with Vaska.... Ah, to be sure, you don’t know each other.", "pos": 723598}
{"speaker": "Vaska", "text": "You’ve lost your bet. We got here first. Pay up,", "pos": 723929}
{"speaker": "Sappho", "text": "Not just now,", "pos": 724035}
{"speaker": "Vaska", "text": "Oh, all right, I’ll have it later.", "pos": 724061}
{"speaker": "Sappho", "text": "Very well, very well. Oh, yes. I am a nice person ... I positively forgot it ... I’ve brought you a visitor. And here he comes.", "pos": 724098}
{"speaker": "Liza Merkalova", "text": "Ah, how glad I am to see you! Yesterday at the races all I wanted was to get to you, but you’d gone away. I did so want to see you, yesterday especially. Wasn’t it awful?", "pos": 725860}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes; I had no idea it would be so thrilling,", "pos": 726136}
{"speaker": "Liza Merkalova", "text": "I’m not going. You won’t go either, will you? Who wants to play croquet?", "pos": 726261}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh, I like it,", "pos": 726393}
{"speaker": "Liza Merkalova", "text": "There, how do you manage never to be bored by things? It’s delightful to look at you. You’re alive, but I’m bored.", "pos": 726421}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "How can you be bored? Why, you live in the liveliest set in Petersburg,", "pos": 726538}
{"speaker": "Liza Merkalova", "text": "Possibly the people who are not of our set are even more bored; but we—I certainly—are not happy, but awfully, awfully bored.", "pos": 726623}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "What, bored! Sappho says they did enjoy themselves tremendously at your house last night.", "pos": 726872}
{"speaker": "Liza Merkalova", "text": "Ah, how dreary it all was! We all drove back to my place after the races. And always the same people, always the same. Always the same thing. We lounged about on sofas all the evening. What is there to enjoy in that? No; do tell me how you manage never to be bored? One has but to look at you and one sees, here’s a woman who may be happy or unhappy, but isn’t bored. Tell me how you do it?", "pos": 726978}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I do nothing,", "pos": 727429}
{"speaker": "Stremov", "text": "That’s the best way, ‘Nothing’, that’s the very best way. I told you long ago, that if you don’t want to be bored, you mustn’t think you’re going to be bored. It’s just as you mustn’t be afraid of not being able to fall asleep, if you’re afraid of sleeplessness. That’s just what Anna Arkadyevna has just said.", "pos": 727499}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I should be very glad if I had said it, for it’s not only clever but true,", "pos": 728308}
{"speaker": "Liza Merkalova", "text": "No, do tell me why it is one can’t go to sleep, and one can’t help being bored?", "pos": 728405}
{"speaker": "Stremov", "text": "To sleep well one ought to work, and to enjoy oneself one ought to work too.", "pos": 728487}
{"speaker": "Liza Merkalova", "text": "What am I to work for when my work is no use to anybody? And I can’t and won’t knowingly make a pretense about it.", "pos": 728566}
{"speaker": "Stremov", "text": "You’re incorrigible,", "pos": 728683}
{"speaker": "Liza Merkalova", "text": "No, don’t go away, please don’t,", "pos": 729195}
{"speaker": "Stremov", "text": "It’s too violent a transition, to go from such company to old Madame Vrede. And besides, you will only give her a chance for talking scandal, while here you arouse none but such different feelings of the highest and most opposite kind,", "pos": 729317}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "If I told her to leave her husband, that must mean uniting her life with mine; am I prepared for that? How can I take her away now, when I have no money? Supposing I could arrange.... But how can I take her away while I’m in the service? If I say that—I ought to be prepared to do it, that is, I ought to have the money and to retire from the army.", "pos": 740418}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Of course I don’t envy Serpuhovskoy and never could envy him; but his advancement shows me that one has only to watch one’s opportunity, and the career of a man like me may be very rapidly made. Three years ago he was in just the same position as I am. If I retire, I burn my ships. If I remain in the army, I lose nothing. She said herself she did not wish to change her position. And with her love I cannot feel envious of Serpuhovskoy.", "pos": 743273}
{"speaker": "Petritsky", "text": "We’ve come to fetch you. Your lessive lasted a good time today. Well, is it over?", "pos": 744099}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "It is over,", "pos": 744201}
{"speaker": "Petritsky", "text": "You’re always just as if you’d come out of a bath after it. I’ve come from Gritsky’s they’re expecting you.", "pos": 744441}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Yes; is that music at his place? What’s the fête?", "pos": 744691}
{"speaker": "Petritsky", "text": "Serpuhovskoy’s come.", "pos": 744833}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Aha! why, I didn’t know. Ah, I’m very glad!", "pos": 744856}
{"speaker": "the colonel", "text": "To the health of our former comrade, the gallant general, Prince Serpuhovskoy. Hurrah!", "pos": 746054}
{"speaker": "Serpuhovskoy", "text": "You always get younger, Bondarenko,", "pos": 746248}
{"speaker": "the colonel", "text": "Here he is! Yashvin told me you were in one of your gloomy tempers.", "pos": 747279}
{"speaker": "Serpuhovskoy", "text": "How glad I am!", "pos": 747516}
{"speaker": "the colonel", "text": "You look after him,", "pos": 747590}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Why weren’t you at the races yesterday? I expected to see you there,", "pos": 747705}
{"speaker": "Serpuhovskoy", "text": "I did go, but late. I beg your pardon. Please have this divided from me, each man as much as it runs to.", "pos": 747817}
{"speaker": "Yashvin", "text": "Vronsky! Have anything to eat or drink? Hi, something for the count to eat! Ah, here it is: have a glass!", "pos": 748061}
{"speaker": "Serpuhovskoy", "text": "I’ve always been hearing about you through my wife. I’m glad you’ve been seeing her pretty often.", "pos": 749142}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "She’s friendly with Varya, and they’re the only women in Petersburg I care about seeing,", "pos": 749263}
{"speaker": "Serpuhovskoy", "text": "The only ones?", "pos": 749475}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Yes; and I heard news of you, but not only through your wife. I was greatly delighted to hear of your success, but not a bit surprised. I expected even more.", "pos": 749523}
{"speaker": "Serpuhovskoy", "text": "Well, I on the contrary expected less—I’ll own frankly. But I’m glad, very glad. I’m ambitious; that’s my weakness, and I confess to it.", "pos": 749872}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Perhaps you wouldn’t confess to it if you hadn’t been successful,", "pos": 750011}
{"speaker": "Serpuhovskoy", "text": "I don’t suppose so. I won’t say life wouldn’t be worth living without it, but it would be dull. Of course I may be mistaken, but I fancy I have a certain capacity for the line I’ve chosen, and that power of any sort in my hands, if it is to be, will be better than in the hands of a good many people I know, and so the nearer I get to it, the better pleased I am.", "pos": 750093}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Perhaps that is true for you, but not for everyone. I used to think so too, but here I live and think life worth living not only for that.", "pos": 750555}
{"speaker": "Serpuhovskoy", "text": "There it’s out! here it comes! Ever since I heard about you, about your refusal, I began.... Of course, I approved of what you did. But there are ways of doing everything. And I think your action was good in itself, but you didn’t do it quite in the way you ought to have done.", "pos": 750696}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "What’s done can’t be undone, and you know I never go back on what I’ve done. And besides, I’m very well off.", "pos": 751007}
{"speaker": "Serpuhovskoy", "text": "Very well off—for the time. But you’re not satisfied with that. I wouldn’t say this to your brother. He’s a nice child, like our host here. There he goes! and he’s happy, but that does not satisfy you.", "pos": 751118}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I didn’t say it did satisfy me.", "pos": 751369}
{"speaker": "Serpuhovskoy", "text": "Yes, but that’s not the only thing. Such men as you are wanted.", "pos": 751403}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "By whom?", "pos": 751469}
{"speaker": "Serpuhovskoy", "text": "By whom? By society, by Russia. Russia needs men; she needs a party, or else everything goes and will go to the dogs.", "pos": 751480}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "How do you mean? Bertenev’s party against the Russian communists?", "pos": 751600}
{"speaker": "Serpuhovskoy", "text": "No. Tout ça est une blague. That’s always been and always will be. There are no communists. But intriguing people have to invent a noxious, dangerous party. It’s an old trick. No, what’s wanted is a powerful party of independent men like you and me.", "pos": 751668}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "But why so? Why aren’t they independent men?", "pos": 752005}
{"speaker": "Serpuhovskoy", "text": "Simply because they have not, or have not had from birth, an independent fortune; they’ve not had a name, they’ve not been close to the sun and center as we have. They can be bought either by money or by favor. And they have to find a support for themselves in inventing a policy. And they bring forward some notion, some policy that they don’t believe in, that does harm; and the whole policy is really only a means to a government house and so much income. Cela n’est pas plus fin que ça, when you get a peep at their cards. I may be inferior to them, stupider perhaps, though I don’t see why I should be inferior to them. But you and I have one important advantage over them for certain, in being more difficult to buy. And such men are more needed than ever.", "pos": 752101}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Still I haven’t the one thing of most importance for that. I haven’t the desire for power. I had it once, but it’s gone.", "pos": 753508}
{"speaker": "Serpuhovskoy", "text": "Excuse me, that’s not true,", "pos": 753646}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Yes, it is true, it is true ... now!", "pos": 753704}
{"speaker": "Serpuhovskoy", "text": "Yes, it’s true now, that’s another thing; but that now won’t last forever.", "pos": 753774}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Perhaps,", "pos": 753851}
{"speaker": "Serpuhovskoy", "text": "You say perhaps, but I say for certain. And that’s what I wanted to see you for. Your action was just what it should have been. I see that, but you ought not to keep it up. I only ask you to give me carte blanche. I’m not going to offer you my protection ... though, indeed, why shouldn’t I protect you?—you’ve protected me often enough! I should hope our friendship rises above all that sort of thing. Yes, give me carte blanche, retire from the regiment, and I’ll draw you upwards imperceptibly.", "pos": 753880}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "But you must understand that I want nothing, except that all should be as it is.", "pos": 754487}
{"speaker": "Serpuhovskoy", "text": "You say that all should be as it is. I understand what that means. But listen: we’re the same age, you’ve known a greater number of women perhaps than I have. But I’m married, and believe me, in getting to know thoroughly one’s wife, if one loves her, as someone has said, one gets to know all women better than if one knew thousands of them.", "pos": 754628}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "We’re coming directly!", "pos": 755113}
{"speaker": "Serpuhovskoy", "text": "And here’s my opinion for you. Women are the chief stumbling block in a man’s career. It’s hard to love a woman and do anything. There’s only one way of having love conveniently without its being a hindrance—that’s marriage. How, how am I to tell you what I mean? Wait a minute, wait a minute! Yes, just as you can only carry a fardeau and do something with your hands, when the fardeau is tied on your back, and that’s marriage. And that’s what I felt when I was married. My hands were suddenly set free. But to drag that fardeau about with you without marriage, your hands will always be so full that you can do nothing. Look at Mazankov, at Krupov. They’ve ruined their careers for the sake of women.", "pos": 755314}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "What women!", "pos": 756060}
{"speaker": "Serpuhovskoy", "text": "The firmer the woman’s footing in society, the worse it is. That’s much the same as—not merely carrying the fardeau in your arms—but tearing it away from someone else.", "pos": 756185}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "You have never loved,", "pos": 756355}
{"speaker": "Serpuhovskoy", "text": "Perhaps. But you remember what I’ve said to you. And another thing, women are all more materialistic than men. We make something immense out of love, but they are always terre-à-terre. Directly, directly!", "pos": 756450}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "A man brought it from Princess Tverskaya. My head’s begun to ache; I’m going home,", "pos": 756795}
{"speaker": "Serpuhovskoy", "text": "Oh, good-bye then. You give me carte blanche!", "pos": 756955}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "We’ll talk about it later on; I’ll look you up in Petersburg.", "pos": 757003}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I’m happy, very happy!", "pos": 758033}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Get on, get on! I want nothing, nothing but this happiness. And as I go on, I love her more and more. Here’s the garden of the Vrede Villa. Whereabouts will she be? Where? How? Why did she fix on this place to meet me, and why does she write in Betsy’s letter?", "pos": 759252}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "You’re not angry that I sent for you? I absolutely had to see you,", "pos": 760749}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I angry! But how have you come, where from?", "pos": 760929}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Never mind, come along, I must talk to you.", "pos": 760975}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "What is it? what?", "pos": 761297}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I did not tell you yesterday, that coming home with Alexey Alexandrovitch I told him everything ... told him I could not be his wife, that ... and told him everything.", "pos": 761502}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Yes, yes, that’s better, a thousand times better! I know how painful it was,", "pos": 761972}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "It was not in the least painful to me. It happened of itself, and see....", "pos": 763180}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I understand, I understand. The one thing I longed for, the one thing I prayed for, was to cut short this position, so as to devote my life to your happiness.", "pos": 763328}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Why do you tell me that? Do you suppose I can doubt it? If I doubted....", "pos": 763576}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Who’s that coming? Perhaps they know us!", "pos": 763663}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh, I don’t care! I tell you that’s not the point—I can’t doubt that; but see what he writes to me. Read it.", "pos": 763845}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "You see the sort of man he is, he....", "pos": 765250}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Forgive me, but I rejoice at it. For God’s sake, let me finish! I rejoice, because things cannot, cannot possibly remain as he supposes.", "pos": 765324}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Why can’t they?", "pos": 765560}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "It can’t go on. I hope that now you will leave him. I hope that you will let me arrange and plan our life. Tomorrow....", "pos": 765835}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "But my child! You see what he writes! I should have to leave him, and I can’t and won’t do that.", "pos": 766034}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "But, for God’s sake, which is better?—leave your child, or keep up this degrading position?", "pos": 766149}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "To whom is it degrading?", "pos": 766243}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "To all, and most of all to you.", "pos": 766270}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "You say degrading ... don’t say that. Those words have no meaning for me. Don’t you understand that from the day I loved you everything has changed for me? For me there is one thing, and one thing only—your love. If that’s mine, I feel so exalted, so strong, that nothing can be humiliating to me. I am proud of my position, because ... proud of being ... proud....", "pos": 766304}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Is not a divorce possible? Couldn’t you take your son, and still leave him?", "pos": 767298}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes; but it all depends on him. Now I must go to him,", "pos": 767429}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "On Tuesday I shall be in Petersburg, and everything can be settled.", "pos": 767584}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes. But don’t let us talk any more of it.", "pos": 767654}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I am very glad you have come. Is Seryozha quite well? I shan’t be dining at home today, and I have got to go out directly.", "pos": 772454}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I had thought of going to Moscow,", "pos": 772998}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "No, you did quite, quite right to come,", "pos": 773044}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Alexey Alexandrovitch. I’m a guilty woman, I’m a bad woman, but I am the same as I was, as I told you then, and I have come to tell you that I can change nothing.", "pos": 773192}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I have asked you no question about that, that was as I had supposed. But as I told you then, and have written to you. I repeat now, that I am not bound to know this. I ignore it. Not all wives are so kind as you, to be in such a hurry to communicate such agreeable news to their husbands. agreeable. I shall ignore it so long as the world knows nothing of it, so long as my name is not disgraced. And so I simply inform you that our relations must be just as they have always been, and that only in the event of your compromising me I shall be obliged to take steps to secure my honor.", "pos": 773449}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "But our relations cannot be the same as always. I cannot be your wife while I....", "pos": 774294}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "The manner of life you have chosen is reflected, I suppose, in your ideas. I have too much respect or contempt, or both ... I respect your past and despise your present ... that I was far from the interpretation you put on my words. Though indeed I fail to comprehend how, with the independence you show, —announcing your infidelity to your husband and seeing nothing reprehensible in it, apparently—you can see anything reprehensible in performing a wife’s duties in relation to your husband.", "pos": 774719}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Alexey Alexandrovitch! What is it you want of me?", "pos": 775276}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I want you not to meet that man here, and to conduct yourself so that neither the world nor the servants can reproach you ... not to see him. That’s not much, I think. And in return you will enjoy all the privileges of a faithful wife without fulfilling her duties. That’s all I have to say to you. Now it’s time for me to go. I’m not dining at home.", "pos": 775328}
{"speaker": "Laborers", "text": "Don’t trouble, your honor, sure, the womenfolks will pitch it quick enough.", "pos": 779546}
{"speaker": "Ivan", "text": "Do what you will to me, your honor.", "pos": 780164}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I can’t ask her to be my wife merely because she can’t be the wife of the man she wanted to marry. I should not be able to speak to her without a feeling of reproach; I could not look at her without resentment; and she will only hate me all the more, as she’s bound to. And besides, how can I now, after what Darya Alexandrovna told me, go to see them? Can I help showing that I know what she told me? And me to go magnanimously to forgive her, and have pity on her! Me go through a performance before her of forgiving, and deigning to bestow my love on her!... What induced Darya Alexandrovna to tell me that? By chance I might have seen her, then everything would have happened of itself; but, as it is, it’s out of the question, out of the question!", "pos": 781948}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "I’m told you have a side-saddle. I hope you will bring it over yourself.", "pos": 782863}
{"speaker": "Young Woman", "text": "Would you like the samovar?", "pos": 785045}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, please.", "pos": 785086}
{"speaker": "the old man", "text": "Look sharp, my girl! Well, sir, are you going to Nikolay Ivanovitch Sviazhsky? His honor comes to us too,", "pos": 785745}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "What have they been ploughing?", "pos": 786524}
{"speaker": "the old man", "text": "Ploughing up the potatoes. We rent a bit of land too. Fedot, don’t let out the gelding, but take it to the trough, and we’ll put the other in harness.", "pos": 786570}
{"speaker": "Son", "text": "Oh, father, the ploughshares I ordered, has he brought them along?", "pos": 786723}
{"speaker": "the old man", "text": "There ... in the outer room. You can put them on, while they have dinner. Well, I have had some today already. But just a glass for company.", "pos": 786860}
{"speaker": "the old man", "text": "What have the wenches to do? They carry it out in bundles to the roadside, and the cart brings it away.", "pos": 789411}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, we landowners can’t manage well with our laborers,", "pos": 789517}
{"speaker": "the old man", "text": "Thank you. They’re simple destruction. Look at Sviazhsky’s, for instance. We know what the land’s like—first-rate, yet there’s not much of a crop to boast of. It’s not looked after enough—that’s all it is!", "pos": 789616}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But you work your land with hired laborers?", "pos": 789929}
{"speaker": "the old man", "text": "We’re all peasants together. We go into everything ourselves. If a man’s no use, he can go, and we can manage by ourselves.", "pos": 789975}
{"speaker": "Young Woman", "text": "Father, Finogen wants some tar,", "pos": 790101}
{"speaker": "the old man", "text": "Yes, yes, that’s how it is, sir!", "pos": 790181}
{"speaker": "Madame Sviazhskaya", "text": "You say, that my husband cannot be interested in what’s Russian. It’s quite the contrary; he is always in cheerful spirits abroad, but not as he is here. Here, he feels in his proper place. He has so much to do, and he has the faculty of interesting himself in everything. Oh, you’ve not been to see our school, have you?", "pos": 799423}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I’ve seen it.... The little house covered with ivy, isn’t it?", "pos": 799803}
{"speaker": "Madame Sviazhskaya", "text": "Yes; that’s Nastia’s work,", "pos": 799867}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "You teach in it yourself?", "pos": 799929}
{"speaker": "Nastia", "text": "Yes; I used to teach in it myself, and do teach still, but we have a first-rate schoolmistress now. And we’ve started gymnastic exercises.", "pos": 800078}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, thank you, I won’t have any more tea. I hear a very interesting conversation,", "pos": 800219}
{"speaker": "landowner", "text": "If I’d only the heart to throw up what’s been set going ... such a lot of trouble wasted ... I’d turn my back on the whole business, sell up, go off like Nikolay Ivanovitch ... to hear La Belle Hélène,", "pos": 801752}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "But you see you don’t throw it up, so there must be something gained.", "pos": 802026}
{"speaker": "landowner", "text": "The only gain is that I live in my own house, neither bought nor hired. Besides, one keeps hoping the people will learn sense. Though, instead of that, you’d never believe it—the drunkenness, the immorality! They keep chopping and changing their bits of land. Not a sight of a horse or a cow. The peasant’s dying of hunger, but just go and take him on as a laborer, he’ll do his best to do you a mischief, and then bring you up before the justice of the peace.", "pos": 802135}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "But then you make complaints to the justice too,", "pos": 802598}
{"speaker": "landowner", "text": "I lodge complaints? Not for anything in the world! Such a talking, and such a to-do, that one would have cause to regret it. At the works, for instance, they pocketed the advance-money and made off. What did the justice do? Why, acquitted them. Nothing keeps them in order but their own communal court and their village elder. He’ll flog them in the good old style! But for that there’d be nothing for it but to give it all up and run away.", "pos": 802665}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "But you see we manage our land without such extreme measures. Levin and I and this gentleman.", "pos": 803212}
{"speaker": "the landowner", "text": "Yes, the thing’s done at Mihail Petrovitch’s, but ask him how it’s done. Do you call that a rational system?", "pos": 803362}
{"speaker": "Mihail Petrovitch", "text": "My system’s very simple, thank God. All my management rests on getting the money ready for the autumn taxes, and the peasants come to me, ‘Father, master, help us!’ Well, the peasants are all one’s neighbors; one feels for them. So one advances them a third, but one says: ‘Remember, lads, I have helped you, and you must help me when I need it—whether it’s the sowing of the oats, or the haycutting, or the harvest’; and well, one agrees, so much for each taxpayer—though there are dishonest ones among them too, it’s true.", "pos": 803540}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Then what do you think? what system is one to adopt nowadays?", "pos": 804282}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why, manage like Mihail Petrovitch, or let the land for half the crop or for rent to the peasants; that one can do—only that’s just how the general prosperity of the country is being ruined. Where the land with serf-labor and good management gave a yield of nine to one, on the half-crop system it yields three to one. Russia has been ruined by the emancipation!", "pos": 804358}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The point is, don’t you see, that progress of every sort is only made by the use of authority,", "pos": 805471}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Take the reforms of Peter, of Catherine, of Alexander. Take European history. And progress in agriculture more than anything else—the potato, for instance, that was introduced among us by force. The wooden plough too wasn’t always used. It was introduced maybe in the days before the Empire, but it was probably brought in by force. Now, in our own day, we landowners in the serf times used various improvements in our husbandry: drying machines and thrashing machines, and carting manure and all the modern implements—all that we brought into use by our authority, and the peasants opposed it at first, and ended by imitating us. Now, by the abolition of serfdom we have been deprived of our authority; and so our husbandry, where it had been raised to a high level, is bound to sink to the most savage primitive condition. That’s how I see it.", "pos": 805631}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "With laborers.", "pos": 806752}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The laborers won’t work well, and won’t work with good implements. Our laborer can do nothing but get drunk like a pig, and when he’s drunk he ruins everything you give him. He makes the horses ill with too much water, cuts good harness, barters the tires of the wheels for drink, drops bits of iron into the thrashing machine, so as to break it. He loathes the sight of anything that’s not after his fashion. And that’s how it is the whole level of husbandry has fallen. Lands gone out of cultivation, overgrown with weeds, or divided among the peasants, and where millions of bushels were raised you get a hundred thousand; the wealth of the country has decreased. If the same thing had been done, but with care that....", "pos": 806769}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "That the standard of culture is falling, and that with our present relations to the peasants there is no possibility of farming on a rational system to yield a profit—that’s perfectly true,", "pos": 807793}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "I don’t believe it, all I see is that we don’t know how to cultivate the land, and that our system of agriculture in the serf days was by no means too high, but too low. We have no machines, no good stock, no efficient supervision; we don’t even know how to keep accounts. Ask any landowner; he won’t be able to tell you what crop’s profitable, and what’s not.", "pos": 807994}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Italian bookkeeping,", "pos": 808394}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "Why do they spoil things? A poor thrashing machine, or your Russian presser, they will break, but my steam press they don’t break. A wretched Russian nag they’ll ruin, but keep good dray-horses—they won’t ruin them. And so it is all round. We must raise our farming to a higher level.", "pos": 808573}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, if one only had the means to do it, Nikolay Ivanovitch! It’s all very well for you; but for me, with a son to keep at the university, lads to be educated at the high school—how am I going to buy these dray-horses?", "pos": 808860}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "Well, that’s what the land banks are for.", "pos": 809080}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I don’t agree that it’s necessary or possible to raise the level of agriculture still higher. I devote myself to it, and I have means, but I can do nothing. As to the banks, I don’t know to whom they’re any good. For my part, anyway, whatever I’ve spent money on in the way of husbandry, it has been a loss: stock—a loss, machinery—a loss.", "pos": 809180}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s true enough,", "pos": 809536}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "And I’m not the only one. I mix with all the neighboring landowners, who are cultivating their land on a rational system; they all, with rare exceptions, are doing so at a loss. Come, tell us how does your land do—does it pay?", "pos": 809645}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "Possibly it does not pay. That merely proves either that I’m a bad manager, or that I’ve sunk my capital for the increase of my rents.", "pos": 810736}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, rent! Rent there may be in Europe, where land has been improved by the labor put into it, but with us all the land is deteriorating from the labor put into it—in other words they’re working it out; so there’s no question of rent.", "pos": 810895}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "How no rent? It’s a law.", "pos": 811158}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Then we’re outside the law; rent explains nothing for us, but simply muddles us. No, tell me how there can be a theory of rent?...", "pos": 811185}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Will you have some junket? Masha, pass us some junket or raspberries.", "pos": 811318}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Extraordinarily late the raspberries are lasting this year.", "pos": 811413}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "What makes you think that it’s impossible to find some relation to the laborer in which the labor would become productive?", "pos": 812495}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That never could be so with the Russian peasantry; we’ve no power over them,", "pos": 812671}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "How can new conditions be found? All possible relations to the labor force have been defined and studied. The relic of barbarism, the primitive commune with each guarantee for all, will disappear of itself; serfdom has been abolished—there remains nothing but free labor, and its forms are fixed and ready made, and must be adopted. Permanent hands, day-laborers, rammers—you can’t get out of those forms.", "pos": 812774}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Dissatisfied, and seeking new ones. And will find them, in all probability.", "pos": 813340}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "That’s just what I was meaning. Why shouldn’t we seek them for ourselves?", "pos": 813418}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "Because it would be just like inventing afresh the means for constructing railways. They are ready, invented.", "pos": 813512}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But if they don’t do for us, if they’re stupid?", "pos": 813624}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "Oh, yes; we’ll bury the world under our caps! We’ve found the secret Europe was seeking for! I’ve heard all that; but, excuse me, do you know all that’s been done in Europe on the question of the organization of labor?", "pos": 813758}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, very little.", "pos": 813979}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "That question is now absorbing the best minds in Europe. The Schulze-Delitsch movement.... And then all this enormous literature of the labor question, the most liberal Lassalle movement ... the Mulhausen experiment? That’s a fact by now, as you’re probably aware.", "pos": 813998}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I have some idea of it, but very vague.", "pos": 814265}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "No, you only say that; no doubt you know all about it as well as I do. I’m not a professor of sociology, of course, but it interested me, and really, if it interests you, you ought to study it.", "pos": 814307}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But what conclusion have they come to?", "pos": 814503}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "Excuse me....", "pos": 814544}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "What are you looking at there? Oh, yes, there’s a very interesting article here. It appears, that Friedrich was not, after all, the person chiefly responsible for the partition of Poland. It is proved....", "pos": 816112}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "What is there inside of him? And why, why is he interested in the partition of Poland? Well, and what then? He’s a clever fellow, and said a lot that was true.", "pos": 816732}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, get along with you! An inveterate supporter of serfdom at heart, like all of them!", "pos": 817232}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "Whose marshal you are. Yes, only I marshal them in the other direction,", "pos": 817337}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I’ll tell you what interests me very much. He’s right that our system, that’s to say of rational farming, doesn’t answer, that the only thing that answers is the money-lender system, like that meek-looking gentleman’s, or else the very simplest.... Whose fault is it?", "pos": 817439}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "Our own, of course. Besides, it’s not true that it doesn’t answer. It answers with Vassiltchikov.", "pos": 817723}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "A factory....", "pos": 817823}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "But I really don’t know what it is you are surprised at. The people are at such a low stage of rational and moral development, that it’s obvious they’re bound to oppose everything that’s strange to them. In Europe, a rational system answers because the people are educated; it follows that we must educate the people—that’s all.", "pos": 817839}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But how are we to educate the people?", "pos": 818170}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "To educate the people three things are needed: schools, and schools, and schools.", "pos": 818210}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But you said yourself the people are at such a low stage of material development: what help are schools for that?", "pos": 818294}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "Do you know, you remind me of the story of the advice given to the sick man—You should try purgative medicine. Taken: worse. Try leeches. Tried them: worse. Well, then, there’s nothing left but to pray to God. Tried it: worse. That’s just how it is with us. I say political economy; you say—worse. I say socialism: worse. Education: worse.", "pos": 818410}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But how do schools help matters?", "pos": 818752}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "They give the peasant fresh wants.", "pos": 818787}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, that’s a thing I’ve never understood. In what way are schools going to help the people to improve their material position? You say schools, education, will give them fresh wants. So much the worse, since they won’t be capable of satisfying them. And in what way a knowledge of addition and subtraction and the catechism is going to improve their material condition, I never could make out. The day before yesterday, I met a peasant woman in the evening with a little baby, and asked her where she was going. She said she was going to the wise woman; her boy had screaming fits, so she was taking him to be doctored. I asked, ‘Why, how does the wise woman cure screaming fits?’ ‘She puts the child on the hen-roost and repeats some charm....’", "pos": 818824}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "Well, you’re saying it yourself! What’s wanted to prevent her taking her child to the hen-roost to cure it of screaming fits is just....", "pos": 819601}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, no! that method of doctoring I merely meant as a simile for doctoring the people with schools. The people are poor and ignorant—that we see as surely as the peasant woman sees the baby is ill because it screams. But in what way this trouble of poverty and ignorance is to be cured by schools is as incomprehensible as how the hen-roost affects the screaming. What has to be cured is what makes him poor.", "pos": 819780}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "Well, in that, at least, you’re in agreement with Spencer, whom you dislike so much. He says, too, that education may be the consequence of greater prosperity and comfort, of more frequent washing, as he says, but not of being able to read and write....", "pos": 820219}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, then, I’m very glad—or the contrary, very sorry, that I’m in agreement with Spencer; only I’ve known it a long while. Schools can do no good; what will do good is an economic organization in which the people will become richer, will have more leisure—and then there will be schools.", "pos": 820475}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "Still, all over Europe now schools are obligatory.", "pos": 820766}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "And how far do you agree with Spencer yourself about it?", "pos": 820819}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "No; that screaming story is positively capital! Did you really hear it yourself?", "pos": 820964}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, I ought to have said to him: You say that our husbandry does not answer because the peasant hates improvements, and that they must be forced on him by authority. If no system of husbandry answered at all without these improvements, you would be quite right. But the only system that does answer is where laborer is working in accordance with his habits, just as on the old peasant’s land half-way here. Your and our general dissatisfaction with the system shows that either we are to blame or the laborers. We have gone our way—the European way—a long while, without asking ourselves about the qualities of our labor force. Let us try to look upon the labor force not as an abstract force, but as the Russian peasant with his instincts, and we shall arrange our system of culture in accordance with that. Imagine, I ought to have said to him, that you have the same system as the old peasant has, that you have found means of making your laborers take an interest in the success of the work, and have found the happy mean in the way of improvements which they will admit, and you will, without exhausting the soil, get twice or three times the yield you got before. Divide it in halves, give half as the share of labor, the surplus left you will be greater, and the share of labor will be greater too. And to do this one must lower the standard of husbandry and interest the laborers in its success. How to do this?—that’s a matter of detail; but undoubtedly it can be done.", "pos": 822766}
{"speaker": "peasants", "text": "If you would take a rent for the land, it would save you trouble, and we should be more free.", "pos": 830161}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But Kauffmann, but Jones, but Dubois, but Michelli? You haven’t read them: they’ve thrashed that question out thoroughly.", "pos": 834041}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I have only to go stubbornly on towards my aim, and I shall attain my end, and it’s something to work and take trouble for. This is not a matter of myself individually; the question of the public welfare comes into it. The whole system of culture, the chief element in the condition of the people, must be completely transformed. Instead of poverty, general prosperity and content; instead of hostility, harmony and unity of interests. In short, a bloodless revolution, but a revolution of the greatest magnitude, beginning in the little circle of our district, then the province, then Russia, the whole world. Because a just idea cannot but be fruitful. Yes, it’s an aim worth working for. And its being me, Kostya Levin, who went to a ball in a black tie, and was refused by the Shtcherbatskaya girl, and who was intrinsically such a pitiful, worthless creature—that proves nothing; I feel sure Franklin felt just as worthless, and he too had no faith in himself, thinking of himself as a whole. That means nothing. And he too, most likely, had an Agafea Mihalovna to whom he confided his secrets.", "pos": 837748}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I must write that down. That ought to form a brief introduction, which I thought unnecessary before.", "pos": 839631}
{"speaker": "Agafea Mihalovna", "text": "What’s the use of being dreary? Come, why do you stay on at home? You ought to go to some warm springs, especially now you’re ready for the journey.", "pos": 840468}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, I am going away the day after tomorrow, Agafea Mihalovna; I must finish my work.", "pos": 840644}
{"speaker": "Agafea Mihalovna", "text": "There, there, your work, you say! As if you hadn’t done enough for the peasants! Why, as ’tis, they’re saying, ‘Your master will be getting some honor from the Tsar for it.’ Indeed and it is a strange thing; why need you worry about the peasants?", "pos": 840733}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I’m not worrying about them; I’m doing it for my own good.", "pos": 840982}
{"speaker": "Agafea Mihalovna", "text": "Of one’s soul’s salvation we all know and must think before all else. Parfen Denisitch now, for all he was no scholar, he died a death that God grant everyone of us the like. Took the sacrament and all.", "pos": 841313}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "That’s not what I mean. I mean that I’m acting for my own advantage. It’s all the better for me if the peasants do their work better.", "pos": 841600}
{"speaker": "Agafea Mihalovna", "text": "Well, whatever you do, if he’s a lazy good-for-nought, everything’ll be at sixes and sevens. If he has a conscience, he’ll work, and if not, there’s no doing anything.", "pos": 841747}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, come, you say yourself Ivan has begun looking after the cattle better.", "pos": 841917}
{"speaker": "Agafea Mihalovna", "text": "All I say is, that you ought to get married, that’s what I say.", "pos": 841994}
{"speaker": "Agafea Mihalovna", "text": "Well, here’s visitors come to us, and you won’t be dull,", "pos": 842672}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "You see, I’ve come to you. I’ve been meaning to a long while, but I’ve been unwell all the time. Now I’m ever so much better,", "pos": 844504}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, yes!", "pos": 844778}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "Of course he was quite old. Well, I’ll spend a month or two with you, and then I’m off to Moscow. Do you know, Myakov has promised me a place there, and I’m going into the service. Now I’m going to arrange my life quite differently. You know I got rid of that woman.", "pos": 846127}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Marya Nikolaevna? Why, what for?", "pos": 846446}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "Oh, she was a horrid woman! She caused me all sorts of worries. Besides, I want to turn over a new leaf completely now. I’ve done silly things, of course, like everyone else, but money’s the last consideration; I don’t regret it. So long as there’s health, and my health, thank God, is quite restored.", "pos": 846481}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "Oh, my God! Ah, the devil!", "pos": 848529}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I work, I want to do something, but I had forgotten it must all end; I had forgotten—death. But I am alive still. Now what’s to be done? what’s to be done?", "pos": 849320}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "And now that bent, hollow chest ... and I, not knowing what will become of me, or wherefore....", "pos": 850647}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "K...ha! K...ha! Damnation! Why do you keep fidgeting, why don’t you go to sleep?", "pos": 850745}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, I don’t know, I’m not sleepy.", "pos": 850863}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "I have had a good sleep, I’m not in a sweat now. Just see, feel my shirt; it’s not wet, is it?", "pos": 850899}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Why, he’s dying—yes, he’ll die in the spring, and how help him? What can I say to him? What do I know about it? I’d even forgotten that it was at all.", "pos": 851231}
{"speaker": "Konstantin", "text": "You’re dying, you’re dying!", "pos": 852223}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "I know I’m dying, but I’m afraid, I’m afraid, I’m afraid!", "pos": 852291}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "You’ve simply borrowed an idea that’s not your own, but you’ve distorted it, and are trying to apply it where it’s not applicable.", "pos": 853017}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But I tell you it’s nothing to do with it. They deny the justice of property, of capital, of inheritance, while I do not deny this chief stimulus. All I want is to regulate labor.", "pos": 853150}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "Which means, you’ve borrowed an idea, stripped it of all that gave it its force, and want to make believe that it’s something new,", "pos": 853519}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But my idea has nothing in common....", "pos": 853698}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "That, anyway, has the charm of—what’s one to call it?—geometrical symmetry, of clearness, of definiteness. It may be a Utopia. But if once one allows the possibility of making of all the past a tabula rasa—no property, no family—then labor would organize itself. But you gain nothing....", "pos": 853738}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Why do you mix things up? I’ve never been a communist.", "pos": 854105}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "But I have, and I consider it’s premature, but rational, and it has a future, just like Christianity in its first ages.", "pos": 854162}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "All that I maintain is that the labor force ought to be investigated from the point of view of natural science; that is to say, it ought to be studied, its qualities ascertained....", "pos": 854284}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "But that’s utter waste of time. That force finds a certain form of activity of itself, according to the stage of its development. There have been slaves first everywhere, then metayers; and we have the half-crop system, rent, and day laborers. What are you trying to find?", "pos": 854468}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I am trying to find means of working productively for myself and for the laborers. I want to organize....", "pos": 854982}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "You don’t want to organize anything; it’s simply just as you’ve been all your life, that you want to be original to pose as not exploiting the peasants simply, but with some idea in view.", "pos": 855109}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, all right, that’s what you think—and let me alone!", "pos": 855299}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "You’ve never had, and never have, convictions; all you want is to please your vanity.", "pos": 855436}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, very well; then let me alone!", "pos": 855524}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "And I will let you alone! and it’s high time I did, and go to the devil with you! and I’m very sorry I ever came! Ah, generosity! If you want to be right, I can give you that satisfaction. You’re in the right; but I’m going all the same. Anyway, don’t remember evil against me, Kostya!", "pos": 855560}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "What’s the matter with you?", "pos": 856951}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, nothing; there’s not much happiness in life.", "pos": 857006}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Not much? You come with me to Paris instead of to Mulhausen. You shall see how to be happy.", "pos": 857057}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, I’ve done with it all. It’s time I was dead.", "pos": 857151}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Well, that’s a good one! why, I’m only just getting ready to begin.", "pos": 857202}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, I thought the same not long ago, but now I know I shall soon be dead.", "pos": 857304}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Brainless beef! can I be like that?", "pos": 863056}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I am ill and unhappy. I cannot come out, but I cannot go on longer without seeing you. Come in this evening. Alexey Alexandrovitch goes to the council at seven and will be there till ten.", "pos": 863549}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "What was it? What? What was the dreadful thing I dreamed? Yes, yes; I think a little dirty man with a disheveled beard was stooping down doing something, and all of a sudden he began saying some strange words in French. Yes, there was nothing else in the dream. But why was it so awful? What nonsense! She is coming to me, and better she should. I don’t like going into that house. But no matter; I can’t hide myself,", "pos": 864416}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "What a position! If he would fight, would stand up for his honor, I could act, could express my feelings; but this weakness or baseness.... He puts me in the position of playing false, which I never meant and never mean to do.", "pos": 866442}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "No. No; if things are to go on like this, the end will come much, much too soon.", "pos": 867466}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "What is it, dear one?", "pos": 867643}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "What? I’ve been waiting in agony for an hour, two hours ... No, I won’t ... I can’t quarrel with you. Of course you couldn’t come. No, I won’t. You met him? You’re punished, you see, for being late.", "pos": 867667}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Yes; but how was it? Wasn’t he to be at the council?", "pos": 868313}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "He had been and come back, and was going out somewhere again. But that’s no matter. Don’t talk about it. Where have you been? With the prince still? But it’s over now? He is gone?", "pos": 868368}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Thank God it’s over! You wouldn’t believe how insufferable it’s been for me.", "pos": 868796}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Why so? Isn’t it the life all of you, all young men, always lead?", "pos": 868875}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I gave that life up long ago. And I confess, this week I’ve been, as it were, looking at myself in a glass, seeing that life, and I didn’t like it.", "pos": 869099}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "This morning Liza came to see me—they’re not afraid to call on me, in spite of the Countess Lidia Ivanovna, and she told me about your Athenian evening. How loathsome!", "pos": 869500}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I was just going to say....", "pos": 869683}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "It was that Thérèse you used to know?", "pos": 869734}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I was just saying....", "pos": 869774}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "How disgusting you are, you men! How is it you can’t understand that a woman can never forget that, especially a woman who cannot know your life? What do I know? What have I ever known? what you tell me. And how do I know whether you tell me the truth?...", "pos": 869798}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Anna, you hurt me. Don’t you trust me? Haven’t I told you that I haven’t a thought I wouldn’t lay bare to you?", "pos": 870161}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, yes. But if only you knew how wretched I am! I believe you, I believe you.... What were you saying?", "pos": 870274}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Well, well, what was it you were going to say about the prince? I have driven away the fiend. What did you begin to tell me about the prince? Why did you find it so tiresome?", "pos": 871814}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Oh, it was intolerable! He does not improve on closer acquaintance. If you want him defined, here he is: a prime, well-fed beast such as takes medals at the cattle shows, and nothing more,", "pos": 872056}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "No; how so? He’s seen a great deal, anyway; he’s cultured?", "pos": 872369}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "It’s an utterly different culture—their culture. He’s cultivated, one sees, simply to be able to despise culture, as they despise everything but animal pleasures.", "pos": 872445}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "But don’t you all care for these animal pleasures?", "pos": 872610}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "How is it you’re defending him?", "pos": 872736}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I’m not defending him, it’s nothing to me; but I imagine, if you had not cared for those pleasures yourself, you might have got out of them. But if it affords you satisfaction to gaze at Thérèse in the attire of Eve....", "pos": 872788}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Again, the devil again,", "pos": 873010}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes; but I can’t help it. You don’t know what I have suffered waiting for you. I believe I’m not jealous. I’m not jealous: I believe you when you’re here; but when you’re away somewhere leading your life, so incomprehensible to me.... How was it, then? Where did you meet Alexey Alexandrovitch?", "pos": 873108}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "We ran up against each other in the doorway.", "pos": 873738}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "And he bowed to you like this?", "pos": 873785}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I don’t understand him in the least. If after your avowal to him at your country house he had broken with you, if he had called me out—but this I can’t understand. How can he put up with such a position? He feels it, that’s evident.", "pos": 874142}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "He? He’s perfectly satisfied.", "pos": 874393}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "What are we all miserable for, when everything might be so happy?", "pos": 874448}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Only not he. Don’t I know him, the falsity in which he’s utterly steeped?... Could one, with any feeling, live as he is living with me? He understands nothing, and feels nothing. Could a man of any feeling live in the same house with his unfaithful wife? Could he talk to her, call her ‘my dear’? Anna, ma chère; Anna, dear! He’s not a man, not a human being—he’s a doll! No one knows him; but I know him. Oh, if I’d been in his place, I’d long ago have killed, have torn to pieces a wife like me. I wouldn’t have said, ‘Anna, ma chère’! He’s not a man, he’s an official machine. He doesn’t understand that I’m your wife, that he’s outside, that he’s superfluous.... Don’t let’s talk of him!...", "pos": 874515}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "You’re unfair, very unfair, dearest. But never mind, don’t let’s talk of him. Tell me what you’ve been doing? What is the matter? What has been wrong with you, and what did the doctor say? I imagine that it’s not illness, but your condition. When will it be?", "pos": 875262}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Soon, soon. You say that our position is miserable, that we must put an end to it. If you knew how terrible it is to me, what I would give to be able to love you freely and boldly! I should not torture myself and torture you with my jealousy.... And it will come soon, but not as we expect. It won’t come as we suppose. I didn’t mean to say this to you, but you’ve made me. Soon, soon, all will be over, and we shall all, all be at peace, and suffer no more.", "pos": 875914}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "How absurd! What absurd nonsense you are talking!", "pos": 877181}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "No, it’s the truth.", "pos": 877233}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "What, what’s the truth?", "pos": 877255}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "That I shall die. I have had a dream.", "pos": 877281}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "A dream?", "pos": 877321}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, a dream. It’s a long while since I dreamed it. I dreamed that I ran into my bedroom, that I had to get something there, to find out something; you know how it is in dreams, and in the bedroom, in the corner, stood something. And the something turned round, and I saw it was a peasant with a disheveled beard, little, and dreadful looking. I wanted to run away, but he bent down over a sack, and was fumbling there with his hands.... Il faut le battre, le fer, le broyer, le pétrir In childbirth you’ll die, ma’am, you’ll die....", "pos": 877402}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "What nonsense, what nonsense!", "pos": 878504}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "But don’t let’s talk of it. Ring the bell, I’ll have tea. And stay a little now; it’s not long I shall....", "pos": 878613}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "What do you want? Your lover’s letters,", "pos": 881338}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "They’re not here,", "pos": 881402}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Sit down! I have to speak to you. I told you that I would not allow you to receive your lover in this house.", "pos": 881692}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I had to see him to....", "pos": 881975}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I do not enter into the details of why a woman wants to see her lover.", "pos": 882036}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I meant, I only.... Surely you must feel how easy it is for you to insult me?", "pos": 882109}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "An honest man and an honest woman may be insulted, but to tell a thief he’s a thief is simply la constatation d’un fait.", "pos": 882285}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "This cruelty is something new I did not know in you.", "pos": 882408}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "You call it cruelty for a husband to give his wife liberty, giving her the honorable protection of his name, simply on the condition of observing the proprieties: is that cruelty?", "pos": 882463}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "It’s worse than cruel—it’s base, if you want to know!", "pos": 882645}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "No! Base! If you care to use that word, what is base is to forsake husband and child for a lover, while you eat your husband’s bread!", "pos": 882770}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "You cannot describe my position as worse than I feel it to be myself; but what are you saying all this for?", "pos": 883378}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "What am I saying it for? what for? That you may know that since you have not carried out my wishes in regard to observing outward decorum, I will take measures to put an end to this state of things.", "pos": 883488}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Soon, very soon, it will end, anyway,", "pos": 883715}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "It will end sooner than you and your lover have planned! If you must have the satisfaction of animal passion....", "pos": 883856}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Alexey Alexandrovitch! I won’t say it’s not generous, but it’s not like a gentleman to strike anyone who’s down.", "pos": 883971}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Yes, you only think of yourself! But the sufferings of a man who was your husband have no interest for you. You don’t care that his whole life is ruined, that he is thuff ... thuff....", "pos": 884086}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I came to tell you....", "pos": 884856}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "No, it was my fancy,", "pos": 884910}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I have come to tell you that I am going tomorrow to Moscow, and shall not return again to this house, and you will receive notice of what I decide through the lawyer into whose hands I shall intrust the task of getting a divorce. My son is going to my sister’s,", "pos": 885161}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "You take Seryozha to hurt me. You do not love him.... Leave me Seryozha!", "pos": 885518}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Yes, I have lost even my affection for my son, because he is associated with the repulsion I feel for you. But still I shall take him. Good-bye!", "pos": 885642}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Alexey Alexandrovitch, leave me Seryozha! I have nothing else to say. Leave Seryozha till my ... I shall soon be confined; leave him!", "pos": 885838}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "What are you wanting? He is engaged. Can’t he spare time to see me? Then I must trouble you to give him my card,", "pos": 886861}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Coming immediately,", "pos": 888289}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Before beginning to speak of my business. I ought to observe that the business about which I have to speak to you is to be strictly private. I should not be a lawyer if I could not keep the secrets confided to me. But if you would like proof.... You know my name? I have the misfortune, Alexey Alexandrovitch began, “to have been deceived in my married life, and I desire to break off all relations with my wife by legal means—that is, to be divorced, but to do this so that my son may not remain with his mother. Yes, precisely so; but I ought to warn you that I may be wasting your time and attention. I have come simply to consult you as a preliminary step. I want a divorce, but the form in which it is possible is of great consequence to me. It is very possible that if that form does not correspond with my requirements I may give up a legal divorce. Though in their general features our laws on this subject are known to me. I should be glad to have an idea of the forms in which such things are done in practice. You would be glad,", "pos": 889342}
{"speaker": "the lawyer", "text": "Divorce by our laws, is possible, as you are aware, in the following cases.... Wait a little! ... In the following cases: physical defect in the married parties, desertion without communication for five years, adultery subdivided as follows physical defect of the husband or of the wife, adultery of the husband or of the wife. This is the theoretical view; but I imagine you have done me the honor to apply to me in order to learn its application in practice. And therefore, guided by precedents, I must inform you that in practice cases of divorce may all be reduced to the following—there’s no physical defect, I may assume, nor desertion?... —May be reduced to the following: adultery of one of the married parties, and the detection in the fact of the guilty party by mutual agreement, and failing such agreement, accidental detection. It must be admitted that the latter case is rarely met with in practice. The most usual and simple, the sensible course, I consider, is adultery by mutual consent. I should not permit myself to express it so, speaking with a man of no education, but I imagine that to you this is comprehensible. People cannot go on living together—here you have a fact. And if both are agreed about it, the details and formalities become a matter of no importance. And at the same time this is the simplest and most certain method.", "pos": 892159}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "That is out of the question in the present case. Only one alternative is possible: undesigned detection, supported by letters which I have.", "pos": 894707}
{"speaker": "the lawyer", "text": "Kindly consider, cases of that kind are, as you are aware, under ecclesiastical jurisdiction; the reverend fathers are fond of going into the minutest details in cases of that kind. Letters may, of course, be a partial confirmation; but detection in the fact there must be of the most direct kind, that is, by eyewitnesses. In fact, if you do me the honor to intrust your confidence to me, you will do well to leave me the choice of the measures to be employed. If one wants the result, one must admit the means.", "pos": 894991}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "If it is so....", "pos": 895604}
{"speaker": "the lawyer", "text": "Tell her we don’t haggle over fees! And so you were saying?...", "pos": 895770}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I will communicate my decision to you by letter. From your words I may consequently conclude that a divorce may be obtained? I would ask you to let me know what are your terms.", "pos": 896022}
{"speaker": "the lawyer", "text": "It may be obtained if you give me complete liberty of action. When can I reckon on receiving information from you?", "pos": 896318}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "In a week’s time. Your answer as to whether you will undertake to conduct the case, and on what terms, you will be so good as to communicate to me.", "pos": 896559}
{"speaker": "the lawyer", "text": "Very good.", "pos": 896709}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "I think it very noble. Why take money for posting-horses when everyone knows that there are railways everywhere now?", "pos": 901130}
{"speaker": "Princess Myakaya", "text": "It’s all very well for you to talk, when you have I don’t know how many millions; but I am very glad when my husband goes on a revising tour in the summer. It’s very good for him and pleasant traveling about, and it’s a settled arrangement for me to keep a carriage and coachman on the money.", "pos": 901391}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, what a shame not to have let us know! Been here long? I was at Dussots’ yesterday and saw ‘Karenin’ on the visitors’ list, but it never entered my head that it was you, or I should have looked you up. I am glad to see you! What a shame of you not to let us know!", "pos": 902971}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I had no time; I am very busy,", "pos": 903405}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Come to my wife, she does so want to see you.", "pos": 903477}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Why, Alexey Alexandrovitch, what are you cutting us like this for?", "pos": 903685}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I was very busy. Delighted to see you! How are you?", "pos": 903775}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Tell me, how is my darling Anna?", "pos": 903895}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "I tell you what we’ll do tomorrow. Dolly, ask him to dinner. We’ll ask Koznishev and Pestsov, so as to entertain him with our Moscow celebrities.", "pos": 904031}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Yes, please, do come, we will expect you at five, or six o’clock, if you like. How is my darling Anna? How long....", "pos": 904179}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "She is quite well. Delighted!", "pos": 904311}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "You will come?", "pos": 904426}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "I shall come round tomorrow! Queer fish!", "pos": 904570}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Stiva! Stiva! I must get coats, you know, for Grisha and Tanya. Give me the money.", "pos": 904952}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Never mind; you tell them I’ll pay the bill!", "pos": 905081}
{"speaker": "Masha Tchibisova", "text": "I can not come at the beginning of the ballet, he promised he would come for the last act and take her to supper.", "pos": 905702}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Good-day, Vassily, why, you’ve let your whiskers grow! Levin, number seven, eh? Take me up, please. And find out whether Count Anitchkin is receiving.", "pos": 909373}
{"speaker": "Vassily", "text": "Yes, sir. You’ve not been to see us for a long while.", "pos": 909656}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "I was here yesterday, but at the other entrance. Is this number seven? What! you killed him? Well done! A she-bear? How are you, Arhip!", "pos": 909742}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Come, take off your coat and stay a little,", "pos": 910150}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "No, I haven’t time; I’ve only looked in for a tiny second. Come, tell me, please, what you did abroad? Where have you been?", "pos": 910224}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, I stayed in Germany, in Prussia, in France, and in England—not in the capitals, but in the manufacturing towns, and saw a great deal that was new to me. And I’m glad I went.", "pos": 910583}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, I knew your idea of the solution of the labor question.", "pos": 910763}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Not a bit: in Russia there can be no labor question. In Russia the question is that of the relation of the working people to the land; though the question exists there too—but there it’s a matter of repairing what’s been ruined, while with us....", "pos": 910825}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, yes! it’s very possible you’re right. But I’m glad you’re in good spirits, and are hunting bears, and working, and interested. Shtcherbatsky told me another story—he met you—that you were in such a depressed state, talking of nothing but death....", "pos": 911125}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, what of it? I’ve not given up thinking of death. It’s true that it’s high time I was dead; and that all this is nonsense. It’s the truth I’m telling you. I do value my idea and my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which has grown up on a tiny planet. And for us to suppose we can have something great—ideas, work—it’s all dust and ashes.", "pos": 911391}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "But all that’s as old as the hills, my boy!", "pos": 911823}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "It is old; but do you know, when you grasp this fully, then somehow everything becomes of no consequence. When you understand that you will die tomorrow, if not today, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant! And I consider my idea very important, but it turns out really to be as unimportant too, even if it were carried out, as doing for that bear. So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work—anything so as not to think of death!", "pos": 911869}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, of course! Here you’ve come round to my point. Do you remember you attacked me for seeking enjoyment in life? Don’t be so severe, O moralist!", "pos": 912423}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No; all the same, what’s fine in life is.... oh, I don’t know. All I know is that we shall soon be dead.", "pos": 912573}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Why so soon?", "pos": 912698}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "And do you know, there’s less charm in life, when one thinks of death, but there’s more peace.", "pos": 912713}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "On the contrary, the finish is always the best. But I must be going,", "pos": 912810}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, no, stay a bit! Now, when shall we see each other again? I’m going tomorrow.", "pos": 912938}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "I’m a nice person! Why, that’s just what I came for! You simply must come to dinner with us today. Your brother’s coming, and Karenin, my brother-in-law.", "pos": 913048}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "You don’t mean to say he’s here? Whether she’s coming or not, I don’t care,", "pos": 913204}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "So you’ll come?", "pos": 913563}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Of course.", "pos": 913581}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "At five o’clock, then, and not evening dress.", "pos": 913594}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "No matter, so much the better. I will inform him at once of my position in regard to his sister, and explain why it is I can’t dine with him. Come in!", "pos": 916260}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "There, you see, you’re talking nonsense, and he’s at home! Well, I’m awfully glad I’ve found you! So I hope....", "pos": 916526}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I cannot come,", "pos": 916841}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Why can’t you? What do you mean? Oh, but it’s a promise. And we’re all counting on you.", "pos": 917290}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I want to tell you that I can’t dine at your house, because the terms of relationship which have existed between us must cease.", "pos": 917426}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "How? How do you mean? What for?", "pos": 917556}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Because I am beginning an action for divorce against your sister, my wife. I ought to have....", "pos": 917629}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "No, Alexey Alexandrovitch! What are you saying?", "pos": 917895}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "It is so.", "pos": 918005}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Excuse me, I can’t, I can’t believe it!", "pos": 918017}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Yes, I am brought to the painful necessity of seeking a divorce,", "pos": 918328}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "I will say one thing, Alexey Alexandrovitch. I know you for an excellent, upright man; I know Anna—excuse me, I can’t change my opinion of her—for a good, an excellent woman; and so, excuse me, I cannot believe it. There is some misunderstanding,", "pos": 918404}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Oh, if it were merely a misunderstanding!...", "pos": 918662}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Pardon, I understand. But of course.... One thing: you must not act in haste. You must not, you must not act in haste!", "pos": 918709}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I am not acting in haste, but one cannot ask advice of anyone in such a matter. I have quite made up my mind.", "pos": 918864}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "This is awful! I would do one thing, Alexey Alexandrovitch. I beseech you, do it! No action has yet been taken, if I understand rightly. Before you take advice, see my wife, talk to her. She loves Anna like a sister, she loves you, and she’s a wonderful woman. For God’s sake, talk to her! Do me that favor, I beseech you! You will go to see her?", "pos": 919013}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I don’t know. That was just why I have not been to see you. I imagine our relations must change.", "pos": 919524}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Why so? I don’t see that. Allow me to believe that apart from our connection you have for me, at least in part, the same friendly feeling I have always had for you ... and sincere esteem. Even if your worst suppositions were correct, I don’t—and never would—take on myself to judge either side, and I see no reason why our relations should be affected. But now, do this, come and see my wife.", "pos": 919623}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Well, we look at the matter differently. However, we won’t discuss it.", "pos": 920065}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "No; why shouldn’t you come today to dine, anyway? My wife’s expecting you. Please, do come. And, above all, talk it over with her. She’s a wonderful woman. For God’s sake, on my knees, I implore you!", "pos": 920175}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "If you so much wish it, I will come,", "pos": 920377}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Well, have you seen him?", "pos": 920972}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Of course; he was at our sitting yesterday. He seems to know his work capitally, and to be very energetic.", "pos": 921050}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Yes, but what is his energy directed to? Is he aiming at doing anything, or simply undoing what’s been done? It’s the great misfortune of our government—this paper administration, of which he’s a worthy representative.", "pos": 921159}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Really, I don’t know what fault one could find with him. His policy I don’t know, but one thing—he’s a very nice fellow. I’ve just been seeing him, and he’s really a capital fellow. We lunched together, and I taught him how to make, you know that drink, wine and oranges. It’s so cooling. And it’s a wonder he didn’t know it. He liked it awfully. No, really he’s a capital fellow. Why, good heavens, it’s four already, and I’ve still to go to Dolgovushin’s! So please come round to dinner. You can’t imagine how you will grieve my wife and me.", "pos": 921410}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I’ve promised, and I’ll come,", "pos": 922158}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Believe me, I appreciate it, and I hope you won’t regret it. At five o’clock, and not evening dress, please,", "pos": 922211}
{"speaker": "Turovtsin", "text": "Well, old boy, you have popped me down in a learned set! A drinking party now, or the Château des Fleurs, would be more in my line!", "pos": 924401}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I’m not late?", "pos": 926646}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "You can never help being late!", "pos": 926662}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Have you a lot of people? Who’s here?", "pos": 926737}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "All our own set. Kitty’s here. Come along, I’ll introduce you to Karenin.", "pos": 926866}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "What is she like, what is she like? Like what she used to be, or like what she was in the carriage? What if Darya Alexandrovna told the truth? Why shouldn’t it be the truth? Oh, please, introduce me to Karenin,", "pos": 927749}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "How long it is since we’ve seen each other!", "pos": 928911}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "You’ve not seen me, but I’ve seen you. I saw you when you were driving from the railway station to Ergushovo. When? You were driving to Ergushovo. And how dared I associate a thought of anything not innocent with this touching creature? And, yes, I do believe it’s true what Darya Alexandrovna told me,", "pos": 929031}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Let me introduce you.", "pos": 929578}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Very glad to meet you again,", "pos": 929628}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "You are acquainted?", "pos": 929720}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "We spent three hours together in the train, but got out, just as in a masquerade, quite mystified—at least I was.", "pos": 929781}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Nonsense! Come along, please,", "pos": 929919}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "So, then, for the Russification of our foreign populations there is but one method—to bring up as many children as one can. My brother and I are terribly in fault, I see. You married men, especially you, Stepan Arkadyevitch, are the real patriots: what number have you reached?", "pos": 931105}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Oh, yes, that’s the best method! This cheese is not bad. Shall I give you some? Why, have you been going in for gymnastics again?", "pos": 931537}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I imagine great strength is needed for hunting bears,", "pos": 932085}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Not at all. Quite the contrary; a child can kill a bear,", "pos": 932306}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "You have killed a bear, I’ve been told! Are there bears on your place?", "pos": 932453}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, we’ve been hunting in the Tver province. It was coming back from there that I met your beau-frère in the train, or your beau-frère’s brother-in-law. It was an amusing meeting. The conductor, forgetting the proverb, would have chucked me out on account of my attire; but thereupon I began expressing my feelings in elevated language, and ... you, too, at first would have ejected me on the ground of the old coat, but afterwards you took my part, for which I am extremely grateful.", "pos": 933127}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "The rights of passengers generally to choose their seats are too ill-defined,", "pos": 933872}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I saw you were in uncertainty about me, but I made haste to plunge into intellectual conversation to smooth over the defects of my attire.", "pos": 934033}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, you may as well sit there,", "pos": 935079}
{"speaker": "Pestsov", "text": "I did not mean,", "pos": 935940}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "It seems to me,", "pos": 936126}
{"speaker": "Pestsov", "text": "But that’s just the question. In what are we to make higher development consist? The English, the French, the Germans, which is at the highest stage of development? Which of them will nationalize the other? We see the Rhine provinces have been turned French, but the Germans are not at a lower stage!", "pos": 936351}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I fancy that the greater influence is always on the side of true civilization,", "pos": 936836}
{"speaker": "Pestsov", "text": "But what are we to lay down as the outward signs of true civilization?", "pos": 936976}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I imagine such signs are generally very well known,", "pos": 937063}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "It is the accepted view now that real culture must be purely classical; but we see most intense disputes on each side of the question, and there is no denying that the opposite camp has strong points in its favor.", "pos": 937219}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "You are for classics, Sergey Ivanovitch. Will you take red wine?", "pos": 937435}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "I am not expressing my own opinion of either form of culture. I only say that both sides have strong arguments to support them,", "pos": 937528}
{"speaker": "Pestsov", "text": "The natural sciences have just as great an educational value,", "pos": 938016}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "It seems to me that one must admit that the very process of studying the forms of language has a peculiarly favorable influence on intellectual development. Moreover, it cannot be denied that the influence of the classical authors is in the highest degree moral, while, unfortunately, with the study of the natural sciences are associated the false and noxious doctrines which are the curse of our day.", "pos": 938244}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "One must allow that to weigh all the advantages and disadvantages of classical and scientific studies is a difficult task, and the question which form of education was to be preferred would not have been so quickly and conclusively decided if there had not been in favor of classical education, as you expressed it just now, its moral—disons le mot—anti-nihilist influence. If it had not been for the distinctive property of anti-nihilistic influence on the side of classical studies, we should have considered the subject more, have weighed the arguments on both sides, we should have given elbow-room to both tendencies. But now we know that these little pills of classical learning possess the medicinal property of anti-nihilism, and we boldly prescribe them to our patients.... But what if they had no such medicinal property?", "pos": 938949}
{"speaker": "Pestsov", "text": "I can’t agree even, that the government had that aim. The government obviously is guided by abstract considerations, and remains indifferent to the influence its measures may exercise. The education of women, for instance, would naturally be regarded as likely to be harmful, but the government opens schools and universities for women.", "pos": 940320}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "The education of women is apt to be confounded with the emancipation of women, and that it is only so that it can be considered dangerous.", "pos": 940797}
{"speaker": "Pestsov", "text": "I consider, on the contrary, that the two questions are inseparably connected together, it is a vicious circle. Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights. We must not forget that the subjection of women is so complete, and dates from such ages back that we are often unwilling to recognize the gulf that separates them from us,", "pos": 940937}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "You said rights, meaning the right of sitting on juries, of voting, of presiding at official meetings, the right of entering the civil service, of sitting in parliament....", "pos": 941363}
{"speaker": "Pestsov", "text": "Undoubtedly.", "pos": 941599}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "But if women, as a rare exception, can occupy such positions, it seems to me you are wrong in using the expression ‘rights.’ It would be more correct to say duties. Every man will agree that in doing the duty of a juryman, a witness, a telegraph clerk, we feel we are performing duties. And therefore it would be correct to say that women are seeking duties, and quite legitimately. And one can but sympathize with this desire to assist in the general labor of man.", "pos": 941614}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Quite so. The question, I imagine, is simply whether they are fitted for such duties.", "pos": 942082}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "when education has become general among them. We see this....", "pos": 942275}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "I can say it before my daughter: her hair is long, because her wit is....", "pos": 942470}
{"speaker": "Pestsov", "text": "Just what they thought of the negroes before their emancipation!", "pos": 942546}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "What seems strange to me is that women should seek fresh duties, while we see, unhappily, that men usually try to avoid them.", "pos": 942635}
{"speaker": "Pestsov", "text": "Duties are bound up with rights—power, money, honor; those are what women are seeking,", "pos": 942789}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Just as though I should seek the right to be a wet-nurse and feel injured because women are paid for the work, while no one will take me,", "pos": 942892}
{"speaker": "Pestsov", "text": "Yes, but a man can’t nurse a baby,", "pos": 943204}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "No, there was an Englishman who did suckle his baby on board ship,", "pos": 943275}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "There are as many such Englishmen as there would be women officials,", "pos": 943440}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, but what is a girl to do who has no family?", "pos": 943535}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "If the story of such a girl were thoroughly sifted, you would find she had abandoned a family—her own or a sister’s, where she might have found a woman’s duties,", "pos": 943732}
{"speaker": "Pestsov", "text": "But we take our stand on principle as the ideal. Woman desires to have rights, to be independent, educated. She is oppressed, humiliated by the consciousness of her disabilities.", "pos": 944039}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "And I’m oppressed and humiliated that they won’t engage me at the Foundling,", "pos": 944258}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "It was very, very early in the morning. You were probably only just awake. Your mother was asleep in the corner. It was an exquisite morning. I was walking along wondering who it could be in a four-in-hand? It was a splendid set of four horses with bells, and in a second you flashed by, and I saw you at the window—you were sitting like this, holding the strings of your cap in both hands, and thinking awfully deeply about something,", "pos": 945795}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Wasn’t I dreadfully untidy? Really I don’t remember.", "pos": 946335}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "How nicely Turovtsin laughs!", "pos": 946569}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Have you known him long?", "pos": 946655}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, everyone knows him!", "pos": 946695}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "And I see you think he’s a horrid man?", "pos": 946721}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Not horrid, but nothing in him.", "pos": 946762}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, you’re wrong! And you must give up thinking so directly! I used to have a very poor opinion of him too, but he, he’s an awfully nice and wonderfully good-hearted man. He has a heart of gold.", "pos": 946796}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "How could you find out what sort of heart he has?", "pos": 947007}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "We are great friends. I know him very well. Last winter, soon after ... you came to see us, he felt so sorry for her that he stayed and began to help her look after the children. Yes, and for three weeks he stopped with them, and looked after the children like a nurse. I am telling Konstantin Dmitrievitch about Turovtsin in the scarlet fever,", "pos": 947059}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Yes, it was wonderful, noble!", "pos": 947628}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I’m sorry, I’m sorry, and I’ll never think ill of people again!", "pos": 947888}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "No, I don’t smoke. I imagine that such a view has a foundation in the very nature of things,", "pos": 948810}
{"speaker": "Turovtsin", "text": "You heard, perhaps, about Pryatchnikov? Vasya Pryatchnikov, they told me today he fought a duel with Kvitsky at Tver, and has killed him.", "pos": 949237}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "What did Pryatchnikov fight about?", "pos": 949964}
{"speaker": "Turovtsin", "text": "His wife. Acted like a man, he did! Called him out and shot him!", "pos": 950001}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Ah!", "pos": 950068}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "How glad I am you have come. I must talk to you. Let’s sit here.", "pos": 950173}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "It’s fortunate, especially as I was meaning to ask you to excuse me, and to be taking leave. I have to start tomorrow.", "pos": 950475}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Alexey Alexandrovitch. I asked you about Anna, you made me no answer. How is she?", "pos": 950824}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "She is, I believe, quite well, Darya Alexandrovna,", "pos": 950971}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Alexey Alexandrovitch, forgive me, I have no right ... but I love Anna as a sister, and esteem her; I beg, I beseech you to tell me what is wrong between you? what fault do you find with her?", "pos": 951075}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I presume that your husband has told you the grounds on which I consider it necessary to change my attitude to Anna Arkadyevna?", "pos": 951347}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "I don’t believe it, I don’t believe it, I can’t believe it! We shall be disturbed here. Come this way, please. I don’t, I don’t believe it!", "pos": 951599}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "One cannot disbelieve facts, Darya Alexandrovna,", "pos": 952139}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "But what has she done? What precisely has she done?", "pos": 952237}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "She has forsaken her duty, and deceived her husband. That’s what she has done,", "pos": 952318}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "No, no, it can’t be! No, for God’s sake, you are mistaken,", "pos": 952408}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "It is extremely difficult to be mistaken when a wife herself informs her husband of the fact—informs him that eight years of her life, and a son, all that’s a mistake, and that she wants to begin life again,", "pos": 952778}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Anna and sin—I cannot connect them, I cannot believe it!", "pos": 953019}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Darya Alexandrovna. I would give a great deal for doubt to be still possible. When I doubted, I was miserable, but it was better than now. When I doubted, I had hope; but now there is no hope, and still I doubt of everything. I am in such doubt of everything that I even hate my son, and sometimes do not believe he is my son. I am very unhappy.", "pos": 953078}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Oh, this is awful, awful! But can it be true that you are resolved on a divorce?", "pos": 953750}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I am resolved on extreme measures. There is nothing else for me to do.", "pos": 953833}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Nothing else to do, nothing else to do.... Oh no, don’t say nothing else to do!", "pos": 953906}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "What is horrible in a trouble of this kind is that one cannot, as in any other—in loss, in death—bear one’s trouble in peace, but that one must act. One must get out of the humiliating position in which one is placed; one can’t live à trois.", "pos": 954037}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I understand. I understand, I quite understand that,", "pos": 954324}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "But wait a little! You are a Christian. Think of her! What will become of her, if you cast her off?", "pos": 954592}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I have thought, Darya Alexandrovna, I have thought a great deal. That was what I did indeed when she herself made known to me my humiliation; I left everything as of old. I gave her a chance to reform, I tried to save her. And with what result? She would not regard the slightest request—that she should observe decorum. One may save anyone who does not want to be ruined; but if the whole nature is so corrupt, so depraved, that ruin itself seems to be her salvation, what’s to be done?", "pos": 954694}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Anything, only not divorce! No, it is awful! She will be no one’s wife, she will be lost!", "pos": 955383}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "What can I do? I am very grateful for your sympathy, but I must be going,", "pos": 955529}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "No, wait a minute. You must not ruin her. Wait a little; I will tell you about myself. I was married, and my husband deceived me; in anger and jealousy, I would have thrown up everything, I would myself.... But I came to myself again; and who did it? Anna saved me. And here I am living on. The children are growing up, my husband has come back to his family, and feels his fault, is growing purer, better, and I live on.... I have forgiven it, and you ought to forgive!", "pos": 955824}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Forgive I cannot, and do not wish to, and I regard it as wrong. I have done everything for this woman, and she has trodden it all in the mud to which she is akin. I am not a spiteful man, I have never hated anyone, but I hate her with my whole soul, and I cannot even forgive her, because I hate her too much for all the wrong she has done me!", "pos": 956516}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Love those that hate you....", "pos": 956906}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Love those that hate you, but to love those one hates is impossible. Forgive me for having troubled you. Everyone has enough to bear in his own grief!", "pos": 957087}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I thought you were going towards the piano. That’s something I miss in the country—music.", "pos": 958749}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "No; we only came to fetch you and thank you, for coming. What do they want to argue for? No one ever convinces anyone, you know.", "pos": 958869}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes; that’s true, it generally happens that one argues warmly simply because one can’t make out what one’s opponent wants to prove.", "pos": 959061}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I know: one must find out what he is arguing for, what is precious to him, then one can....", "pos": 960280}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "a girl may be so circumstanced that she cannot live in the family without humiliation, while she herself....", "pos": 961301}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, yes. Yes, yes, yes—you’re right; you’re right!", "pos": 961443}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Ah! I’ve scribbled all over the table!", "pos": 962001}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Wait a minute. I’ve long wanted to ask you one thing.", "pos": 962211}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Please, ask it.", "pos": 962368}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Here,", "pos": 962386}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "It means never, but that’s not true!", "pos": 963017}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Then I could not answer differently.", "pos": 963579}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Only then?", "pos": 963660}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 963673}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, read this. I’ll tell you what I should like—should like so much! I have nothing to forget and to forgive; I have never ceased to love you.", "pos": 963730}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I understand,", "pos": 964170}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 964735}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, so it’s not time to die yet? N-n-no!", "pos": 965908}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "How glad I am you have met Kitty again! One must value old friends.", "pos": 966122}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Where are you going?", "pos": 966451}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "I’m going to a meeting.", "pos": 966474}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, I’ll come with you. May I?", "pos": 966500}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "What for? Yes, come along. What is the matter with you today?", "pos": 966535}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "With me? Happiness is the matter with me! You don’t mind?—it’s so stifling. It’s happiness is the matter with me! Why is it you have never married?", "pos": 966634}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "I am very glad, she seems a nice gi....", "pos": 966886}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Don’t say it! don’t say it! She’s a nice girl", "pos": 966961}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Well, anyway, I may say that I’m very glad of it.", "pos": 967253}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "That you may do tomorrow, tomorrow and nothing more! Nothing, nothing, silence. I do like you so! Well, is it possible for me to be present at the meeting?", "pos": 967305}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Of course it is.", "pos": 967531}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "What is your discussion about today?", "pos": 967550}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Well, did you like it?", "pos": 969076}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Very much. I never supposed it was so interesting! Capital! Splendid! Most delighted,", "pos": 969130}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, Yegor, it’s hard work not sleeping, isn’t it?", "pos": 971148}
{"speaker": "Yegor", "text": "One’s got to put up with it! It’s part of our work, you see. In a gentleman’s house it’s easier; but then here one makes more.", "pos": 971202}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Wonderfully good-hearted fellow! Well, but you yourself, Yegor, when you got married, did you love your wife?", "pos": 971972}
{"speaker": "Yegor", "text": "Ay! and why not? My life, too, has been a wonderful one. From a child up....", "pos": 972101}
{"speaker": "hall-porter", "text": "Well, it’s a long while since you’ve been to see us, Konstantin Dmitrievitch!", "pos": 977368}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Are they up?", "pos": 977638}
{"speaker": "hall-porter", "text": "Pray walk in! Leave it here,", "pos": 977653}
{"speaker": "footman", "text": "To whom shall I announce your honor?", "pos": 977771}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "The princess ... the prince ... the young princess....", "pos": 977977}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Let us go to mamma!", "pos": 979835}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Can it be true? I can’t believe you love me, dear!", "pos": 980163}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Yes! I am so happy!", "pos": 980330}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "So it is all settled! I am glad. Love her. I am glad.... Kitty!", "pos": 980694}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "You’ve not been long settling things. I’ve long, always wished for this! Even when this little feather-head fancied....", "pos": 980760}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Papa!", "pos": 981069}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Well, I won’t! I’m very, very ... plea... Oh, what a fool I am....", "pos": 981128}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "When is it to be? We must have the benediction and announcement. And when’s the wedding to be? What do you think, Alexander?", "pos": 981842}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Here he is, he’s the principal person in the matter.", "pos": 981969}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "When? Tomorrow. If you ask me, I should say, the benediction today and the wedding tomorrow.", "pos": 982065}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Come, mon cher, that’s nonsense!", "pos": 982183}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, in a week.", "pos": 982218}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "He’s quite mad.", "pos": 982237}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, why so?", "pos": 982255}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Well, upon my word! How about the trousseau?", "pos": 982269}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, I know nothing about it; I only said what I should like,", "pos": 982719}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "We’ll talk it over, then. The benediction and announcement can take place now. That’s very well.", "pos": 982806}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "How I knew it would be so! I never hoped for it; and yet in my heart I was always sure. I believe that it was ordained.", "pos": 983441}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "And I! Even when.... Even when I thrust from me my happiness. I always loved you alone, but I was carried away. I ought to tell you.... Can you forgive that?", "pos": 983574}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Perhaps it was for the best. You will have to forgive me so much. I ought to tell you.... No, not now, later!", "pos": 983828}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Very well, later, but you must certainly tell me. I’m not afraid of anything. I want to know everything. Now it is settled.", "pos": 984203}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Settled that you’ll take me whatever I may be—you won’t give me up? Yes?", "pos": 984339}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Yes, yes.", "pos": 984414}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle Linon", "text": "Now we shall have sweetmeats to eat,", "pos": 985400}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "Well, I’m very glad. I advise you to get the bouquets from Fomin’s.", "pos": 985502}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, are they wanted? Oh, are presents wanted?", "pos": 985590}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Take them, take these dreadful books! Why did you give them me? No, it was better anyway. But it’s awful, awful!", "pos": 988023}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "You can’t forgive me,", "pos": 988309}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Yes, I forgive you; but it’s terrible!", "pos": 988347}
{"speaker": "Turovtsin", "text": "Acted like a man, he did! Called him out and shot him!", "pos": 989274}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "But the matter is settled, it’s useless thinking about it,", "pos": 989426}
{"speaker": "manservant", "text": "Two telegrams. I beg your pardon, your excellency; I’d only just that minute gone out.", "pos": 989886}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Quos vult perdere dementat. Something else in the same line,", "pos": 990298}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I am dying; I beg, I implore you to come. I shall die easier with your forgiveness,", "pos": 990951}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "There is no deceit she would stick at. She was near her confinement. Perhaps it is the confinement. But what can be their aim? To legitimize the child, to compromise me, and prevent a divorce. But something was said in it: I am dying.... And if it is true? If it is true that in the moment of agony and nearness to death she is genuinely penitent, and I, taking it for a trick, refuse to go? That would not only be cruel, and everyone would blame me, but it would be stupid on my part. Piotr, call a coach; I am going to Petersburg,", "pos": 991203}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "If it’s a trick, then calm contempt and departure. If truth, do what is proper. How is your mistress?", "pos": 993167}
{"speaker": "Kapitonitch", "text": "A successful confinement yesterday.", "pos": 993421}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "And how is she?", "pos": 993579}
{"speaker": "Korney", "text": "Very ill. There was a consultation yesterday, and the doctor’s here now.", "pos": 993641}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Take my things. Who is here?", "pos": 993731}
{"speaker": "Korney", "text": "The doctor, the midwife, and Count Vronsky.", "pos": 993982}
{"speaker": "midwife", "text": "Thank God you’ve come! She keeps on about you and nothing but you,", "pos": 994360}
{"speaker": "doctor", "text": "Make haste with the ice!", "pos": 994439}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "She is dying. The doctors say there is no hope. I am entirely in your power, only let me be here ... though I am at your disposal. I....", "pos": 994949}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "For Alexey—I am speaking of Alexey Alexandrovitch (what a strange and awful thing that both are Alexey, isn’t it?)—Alexey would not refuse me. I should forget, he would forgive.... But why doesn’t he come? He’s so good he doesn’t know himself how good he is. Ah, my God, what agony! Give me some water, quick! Oh, that will be bad for her, my little girl! Oh, very well then, give her to a nurse. Yes, I agree, it’s better in fact. He’ll be coming; it will hurt him to see her. Give her to the nurse.", "pos": 995957}
{"speaker": "midwife", "text": "Anna Arkadyevna, he has come. Here he is!", "pos": 996460}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh, what nonsense! No, give her to me; give me my little one! He has not come yet. You say he won’t forgive me, because you don’t know him. No one knows him. I’m the only one, and it was hard for me even. His eyes I ought to know—Seryozha has just the same eyes—and I can’t bear to see them because of it. Has Seryozha had his dinner? I know everyone will forget him. He would not forget. Seryozha must be moved into the corner room, and Mariette must be asked to sleep with him. No, no! I am not afraid of him; I am afraid of death. Alexey, come here. I am in a hurry, because I’ve no time, I’ve not long left to live; the fever will begin directly and I shall understand nothing more. Now I understand, I understand it all, I see it all! Wait a minute, you don’t know ... stay a little, stay!... Yes, yes, yes, yes. This is what I wanted to say. Don’t be surprised at me. I’m still the same.... But there is another woman in me, I’m afraid of her: she loved that man, and I tried to hate you, and could not forget about her that used to be. I’m not that woman. Now I’m my real self, all myself. I’m dying now, I know I shall die, ask him. Even now I feel—see here, the weights on my feet, on my hands, on my fingers. My fingers—see how huge they are! But this will soon all be over.... Only one thing I want: forgive me, forgive me quite. I’m terrible, but my nurse used to tell me; the holy martyr—what was her name? She was worse. And I’ll go to Rome; there’s a wilderness, and there I shall be no trouble to anyone, only I’ll take Seryozha and the little one.... No, you can’t forgive me! I know, it can’t be forgiven! No, no, go away, you’re too good!", "pos": 996580}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "That is he. I knew him! Now, forgive me, everyone, forgive me!... They’ve come again; why don’t they go away?... Oh, take these cloaks off me! Remember one thing, that I needed nothing but forgiveness, and I want nothing more.... Why doesn’t he come? Do come, do come! Give him your hand. Uncover your face—look at him! He’s a saint. Oh! uncover your face, do uncover it! Alexey Alexandrovitch, do uncover his face! I want to see him.", "pos": 999776}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Give him your hand. Forgive him.", "pos": 1000698}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Thank God, thank God! now everything is ready. Only to stretch my legs a little. There, that’s capital. How badly these flowers are done—not a bit like a violet. My God, my God! when will it end? Give me some morphine. Doctor, give me some morphine! Oh, my God, my God!", "pos": 1000840}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Better stay, she might ask for you,", "pos": 1001610}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Alexey Alexandrovitch. I can’t speak, I can’t understand. Spare me! However hard it is for you, believe me, it is more terrible for me.", "pos": 1002012}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I beg you to hear me out; it is necessary. I must explain my feelings, the feelings that have guided me and will guide me, so that you may not be in error regarding me. You know I had resolved on a divorce, and had even begun to take proceedings. I won’t conceal from you that in beginning this I was in uncertainty, I was in misery; I will confess that I was pursued by a desire to revenge myself on you and on her. When I got the telegram, I came here with the same feelings; I will say more, I longed for her death. But.... But I saw her and forgave her. And the happiness of forgiveness has revealed to me my duty. I forgive completely. I would offer the other cheek, I would give my cloak if my coat be taken. I pray to God only not to take from me the bliss of forgiveness! This is my position: you can trample me in the mud, make me the laughing-stock of the world, I will not abandon her, and I will never utter a word of reproach to you. My duty is clearly marked for me; I ought to be with her, and I will be. If she wishes to see you, I will let you know, but now I suppose it would be better for you to go away.", "pos": 1002297}
{"speaker": "the porter", "text": "A sledge, sir?", "pos": 1005941}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Yes, a sledge. To sleep! To forget!", "pos": 1005976}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "You may trample me in the mud,", "pos": 1007170}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "To sleep! To forget! That is not and will not be, and she wants to wipe it out of her memory. But I cannot live without it. How can we be reconciled? how can we be reconciled?", "pos": 1007636}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Take away his hands,", "pos": 1008313}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I did not appreciate it, did not make enough of it. I did not appreciate it, did not make enough of it. What’s this? Am I going out of my mind? Perhaps. What makes men go out of their minds; what makes men shoot themselves? No, I must sleep! That’s all over for me. I must think what to do. What is left? Ambition? Serpuhovskoy? Society? The court? This is how people go mad, and how they shoot themselves ... to escape humiliation. Of course,", "pos": 1008713}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Of course,", "pos": 1010879}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Idiotic! Missed!", "pos": 1011803}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Who is here?", "pos": 1016479}
{"speaker": "the groom", "text": "Princess Elizaveta Federovna Tverskaya,", "pos": 1016523}
{"speaker": "the governess", "text": "The doctor said it was nothing serious, and he ordered a bath, sir.", "pos": 1017784}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "But she is still in pain,", "pos": 1017854}
{"speaker": "the Englishwoman", "text": "I think it’s the wet-nurse, sir,", "pos": 1017962}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "What makes you think so?", "pos": 1018027}
{"speaker": "the Englishwoman", "text": "It’s just as it was at Countess Paul’s, sir. They gave the baby medicine, and it turned out that the baby was simply hungry: the nurse had no milk, sir.", "pos": 1018080}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Still no better?", "pos": 1018594}
{"speaker": "the nurse", "text": "She’s very restless,", "pos": 1018641}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Miss Edwarde says that perhaps the wet-nurse has no milk,", "pos": 1018697}
{"speaker": "the nurse", "text": "I think so too, Alexey Alexandrovitch.", "pos": 1018766}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Then why didn’t you say so?", "pos": 1018807}
{"speaker": "the nurse", "text": "Who’s one to say it to? Anna Arkadyevna still ill....", "pos": 1018837}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "You must ask the doctor to examine the wet-nurse,", "pos": 1019246}
{"speaker": "the nurse", "text": "Luckless child!", "pos": 1019624}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "If he hadn’t been going away, I could have understood your answer and his too. But your husband ought to be above that,", "pos": 1020781}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "It’s not for my husband; for myself I don’t wish it. Don’t say that!", "pos": 1020921}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "Yes, but you must care to say good-bye to a man who has shot himself on your account....", "pos": 1021023}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "That’s just why I don’t want to.", "pos": 1021114}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "Ah! I’m very glad you’re at home. You never put in an appearance anywhere, and I haven’t seen you ever since Anna has been ill. I have heard all about it—your anxiety. Yes, you’re a wonderful husband!", "pos": 1022038}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Better, I think,", "pos": 1022491}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "But you’ve rather a feverish-looking color,", "pos": 1022539}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "We’ve been talking too much. I feel it’s selfishness on my part, and I am going away.", "pos": 1022632}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "No, wait a minute, please. I must tell you ... no, you. I won’t and can’t keep anything secret from you. Betsy’s been telling me that Count Vronsky wants to come here to say good-bye before his departure for Tashkend.", "pos": 1022803}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "You said, my dear, that it would depend on Alexey Alexandrovitch,", "pos": 1023342}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh, no, I can’t receive him; and what object would there.... In short, I don’t wish it....", "pos": 1023431}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I am very grateful to you for your confidence, but....", "pos": 1023847}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "Well, good-bye, my darling. Alexey Alexandrovitch! I know you are a truly magnanimous man. I am an outsider, but I so love her and respect you that I venture to advise. Receive him. Alexey Vronsky is the soul of honor, and he is going away to Tashkend.", "pos": 1024312}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Thank you, princess, for your sympathy and advice. But the question of whether my wife can or cannot see anyone she must decide herself.", "pos": 1024773}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I am very grateful for your confidence in me. And I am very grateful for your decision. I, too, imagine that since he is going away, there is no sort of necessity for Count Vronsky to come here. However, if....", "pos": 1025432}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "But I’ve said so already, so why repeat it? No sort of necessity,", "pos": 1025881}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I have just sent for the doctor. I am very well; what do I want the doctor for?", "pos": 1027203}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "No, the little one cries, and they say the nurse hasn’t enough milk.", "pos": 1027315}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Why didn’t you let me nurse her, when I begged to? Anyway she’s a baby, and they’re killing her. I begged to nurse her, I wasn’t allowed to, and now I’m blamed for it.", "pos": 1027386}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I don’t blame....", "pos": 1027680}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, you do blame me! My God! why didn’t I die! Forgive me, I’m nervous, I’m unjust, but do go away....", "pos": 1027700}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "Ah! princess! what a delightful meeting!", "pos": 1029492}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "I’ve been to see you.", "pos": 1029545}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "A meeting for one minute, for I’m going,", "pos": 1029569}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Don’t put on your glove yet, princess; let me kiss your hand. There’s nothing I’m so thankful to the revival of the old fashions for as the kissing the hand. When shall we see each other?", "pos": 1029658}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "You don’t deserve it,", "pos": 1029874}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Oh, yes, I deserve a great deal, for I’ve become a most serious person. I don’t only manage my own affairs, but other people’s too,", "pos": 1029923}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "Oh, I’m so glad! He’s killing her. It’s impossible, impossible....", "pos": 1030097}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "I’m so glad you think so, that’s what I’ve come to Petersburg for.", "pos": 1030341}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "The whole town’s talking of it. It’s an impossible position. She pines and pines away. He doesn’t understand that she’s one of those women who can’t trifle with their feelings. One of two things: either let him take her away, act with energy, or give her a divorce. This is stifling her.", "pos": 1030513}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, yes ... just so.... That’s what I’ve come for. At least not solely for that ... I’ve been made a Kammerherr; of course, one has to say thank you. But the chief thing was having to settle this.", "pos": 1030815}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "Well, God help you!", "pos": 1031041}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Very, very miserably. Today and this morning and all past days and days to come,", "pos": 1031618}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "I think you’re giving way to pessimism. You must rouse yourself, you must look life in the face. I know it’s hard, but....", "pos": 1031711}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I have heard it said that women love men even for their vices, but I hate him for his virtues. I can’t live with him. Do you understand? the sight of him has a physical effect on me, it makes me beside myself. I can’t, I can’t live with him. What am I to do? I have been unhappy, and used to think one couldn’t be more unhappy, but the awful state of things I am going through now, I could never have conceived. Would you believe it, that knowing he’s a good man, a splendid man, that I’m not worth his little finger, still I hate him. I hate him for his generosity. And there’s nothing left for me but....", "pos": 1031836}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "You are ill and overwrought, believe me, you’re exaggerating dreadfully. There’s nothing so terrible in it.", "pos": 1032545}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "No, Stiva. I’m lost, lost! worse than lost! I can’t say yet that all is over; on the contrary, I feel that it’s not over. I’m an overstrained string that must snap. But it’s not ended yet ... and it will have a fearful end.", "pos": 1033085}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "No matter, we must let the string be loosened, little by little. There’s no position from which there is no way of escape.", "pos": 1033323}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I have thought, and thought. Only one....", "pos": 1033448}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Not at all. Listen to me. You can’t see your own position as I can. Let me tell you candidly my opinion. I’ll begin from the beginning. You married a man twenty years older than yourself. You married him without love and not knowing what love was. It was a mistake, let’s admit.", "pos": 1033617}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "A fearful mistake!", "pos": 1033960}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "But I repeat, it’s an accomplished fact. Then you had, let us say, the misfortune to love a man not your husband. That was a misfortune; but that, too, is an accomplished fact. And your husband knew it and forgave it.", "pos": 1033992}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I know nothing, nothing.", "pos": 1034399}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "But you said yourself that you can’t endure him.", "pos": 1034426}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "No, I didn’t say so. I deny it. I can’t tell, I don’t know anything about it.", "pos": 1034477}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, but let....", "pos": 1034557}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "You can’t understand. I feel I’m lying head downwards in a sort of pit, but I ought not to save myself. And I can’t....", "pos": 1034576}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Never mind, we’ll slip something under and pull you out. I understand you: I understand that you can’t take it on yourself to express your wishes, your feelings.", "pos": 1034698}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "There’s nothing, nothing I wish ... except for it to be all over.", "pos": 1034862}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "But he sees this and knows it. And do you suppose it weighs on him any less than on you? You’re wretched, he’s wretched, and what good can come of it? while divorce would solve the difficulty completely. I’m awfully sorry for you! And how happy I should be if I could arrange things! Don’t speak, don’t say a word! God grant only that I may speak as I feel. I’m going to him.", "pos": 1034930}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I’m not interrupting you?", "pos": 1036097}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, I wished ... I wanted ... yes, I wanted to talk to you. I hope you believe in my love for my sister and my sincere affection and respect for you. I intended ... I wanted to have a little talk with you about my sister and your mutual position,", "pos": 1036489}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I think unceasingly of the same thing. And here is what I had begun writing, thinking I could say it better by letter, and that my presence irritates her,", "pos": 1037468}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I see that my presence is irksome to you. Painful as it is to me to believe it, I see that it is so, and cannot be otherwise. I don’t blame you, and God is my witness that on seeing you at the time of your illness I resolved with my whole heart to forget all that had passed between us and to begin a new life. I do not regret, and shall never regret, what I have done; but I have desired one thing—your good, the good of your soul—and now I see I have not attained that. Tell me yourself what will give you true happiness and peace to your soul. I put myself entirely in your hands, and trust to your feeling of what’s right.", "pos": 1037800}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "That’s what I wanted to say to her,", "pos": 1038727}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, yes.... Yes, yes, I understand you,", "pos": 1038807}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I want to know what she would like,", "pos": 1038958}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "I am afraid she does not understand her own position. She is not a judge. She is crushed, simply crushed by your generosity. If she were to read this letter, she would be incapable of saying anything, she would only hang her head lower than ever.", "pos": 1039024}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Yes, but what’s to be done in that case? how explain, how find out her wishes?", "pos": 1039321}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "If you will allow me to give my opinion, I think that it lies with you to point out directly the steps you consider necessary to end the position.", "pos": 1039402}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "So you consider it must be ended? But how? I see no possible way out of it.", "pos": 1039551}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "There is some way of getting out of every position. There was a time when you thought of breaking off.... If you are convinced now that you cannot make each other happy....", "pos": 1039746}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Happiness may be variously understood. But suppose that I agree to everything, that I want nothing: what way is there of getting out of our position?", "pos": 1039989}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "If you care to know my opinion. She will never speak out about it. But one thing is possible, one thing she might desire, that is the cessation of your relations and all memories associated with them. To my thinking, in your position what’s essential is the formation of a new attitude to one another. And that can only rest on a basis of freedom on both sides.", "pos": 1040141}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Divorce,", "pos": 1040817}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, I imagine that divorce—yes, divorce. That is from every point of view the most rational course for married people who find themselves in the position you are in. What can be done if married people find that life is impossible for them together? That may always happen. There’s only one point to be considered: is either of the parties desirous of forming new ties? If not, it is very simple,", "pos": 1040886}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "She will join him, and in a year or two he will throw her over, or she will form a new tie. And I, by agreeing to an unlawful divorce, shall be to blame for her ruin.", "pos": 1043471}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "The only question is on what terms you agree to give her a divorce. She does not want anything, does not dare ask you for anything, she leaves it all to your generosity.", "pos": 1044113}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "My God, my God! what for?", "pos": 1044285}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are distressed, I understand that. But if you think it over....", "pos": 1044548}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also; and if any man take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. Yes, yes! I will take the disgrace on myself, I will give up even my son, but ... but wouldn’t it be better to let it alone? Still you may do as you like....", "pos": 1044618}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Alexey Alexandrovitch, believe me, she appreciates your generosity. But it seems it was the will of God. This is an unhappy fatality, and one must accept it as such. I accept the calamity as an accomplished fact, and am doing my best to help both her and you,", "pos": 1045282}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "But I’ll work it out better than that,", "pos": 1046274}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Varya. I shot myself by accident. And please never speak of it, and tell everyone so. Or else it’s too ridiculous.", "pos": 1046529}
{"speaker": "Varya", "text": "Thank God! You’re not in pain?", "pos": 1046897}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "A little here.", "pos": 1046942}
{"speaker": "Varya", "text": "Then let me change your bandages.", "pos": 1046985}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I’m not delirious. Please manage that there may be no talk of my having shot myself on purpose.", "pos": 1047135}
{"speaker": "Varya", "text": "No one does say so. Only I hope you won’t shoot yourself by accident any more,", "pos": 1047233}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Of course I won’t, but it would have been better....", "pos": 1047350}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "To see her once and then to bury myself, to die. So much the better. It was a weakness, which would have shattered what strength I have left.", "pos": 1048951}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, you have conquered me, and I am yours,", "pos": 1050348}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "So it had to be. So long as we live, it must be so. I know it now.", "pos": 1050445}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "That’s true. Still there is something terrible in it after all that has happened.", "pos": 1050525}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "It will all pass, it will all pass; we shall be so happy. Our love, if it could be stronger, will be strengthened by there being something terrible in it. I don’t know you with this short hair. You’ve grown so pretty. A boy. But how pale you are!", "pos": 1050672}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, I’m very weak,", "pos": 1051155}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "We’ll go to Italy; you will get strong,", "pos": 1051232}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Can it be possible we could be like husband and wife, alone, your family with you?", "pos": 1051283}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "It only seems strange to me that it can ever have been otherwise.", "pos": 1051407}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Stiva says that he has agreed to everything, but I can’t accept his generosity. I don’t want a divorce; it’s all the same to me now. Only I don’t know what he will decide about Seryozha.", "pos": 1051475}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Don’t speak of that, don’t think of it,", "pos": 1051849}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh, why didn’t I die! it would have been better,", "pos": 1052001}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Do what you choose, if it amuses you. I’m happy, and my happiness can be no greater and no less for anything you do,", "pos": 1054499}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "But I say, have you a certificate of having been at confession?", "pos": 1055499}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No. But what of it?", "pos": 1055714}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "You can’t be married without it.", "pos": 1055736}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Aïe, aïe, aïe! Why, I believe it’s nine years since I’ve taken the sacrament! I never thought of it.", "pos": 1055771}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "You’re a pretty fellow! and you call me a Nihilist! But this won’t do, you know. You must take the sacrament.", "pos": 1055889}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "When? There are four days left now.", "pos": 1056038}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Besides, what is it to you—two days? And he’s an awfully nice clever old fellow. He’ll pull the tooth out for you so gently, you won’t notice it.", "pos": 1056837}
{"speaker": "The priest", "text": "Christ is present here unseen, receiving your confession. Do you believe in all the doctrines of the Holy Apostolic Church?", "pos": 1061027}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I have doubted, I doubt everything,", "pos": 1061289}
{"speaker": "The priest", "text": "Doubt is natural to the weakness of mankind, but we must pray that God in His mercy will strengthen us. What are your special sins?", "pos": 1061534}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "My chief sin is doubt. I have doubts of everything, and for the most part I am in doubt.", "pos": 1061747}
{"speaker": "The priest", "text": "Doubt is natural to the weakness of mankind. What do you doubt about principally?", "pos": 1061838}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I doubt of everything. I sometimes even have doubts of the existence of God,", "pos": 1061960}
{"speaker": "The priest", "text": "What sort of doubt can there be of the existence of God? What doubt can you have of the Creator when you behold His creation? Who has decked the heavenly firmament with its lights? Who has clothed the earth in its beauty? How explain it without the Creator?", "pos": 1062205}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I don’t know,", "pos": 1062796}
{"speaker": "The priest", "text": "You don’t know! Then how can you doubt that God created all?", "pos": 1062821}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I don’t understand it at all,", "pos": 1062931}
{"speaker": "The priest", "text": "Pray to God and beseech Him. Even the holy fathers had doubts, and prayed to God to strengthen their faith. The devil has great power, and we must resist him. Pray to God, beseech Him. Pray to God. You’re about, I hear, to marry the daughter of my parishioner and son in the spirit, Prince Shtcherbatsky? An excellent young lady.", "pos": 1063092}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 1063532}
{"speaker": "The priest", "text": "You are about to enter into holy matrimony, and God may bless you with offspring. Well, what sort of bringing-up can you give your babes if you do not overcome the temptation of the devil, enticing you to infidelity? If you love your child as a good father, you will not desire only wealth, luxury, honor for your infant; you will be anxious for his salvation, his spiritual enlightenment with the light of truth. Eh? What answer will you make him when the innocent babe asks you: ‘Papa! who made all that enchants me in this world—the earth, the waters, the sun, the flowers, the grass?’ Can you say to him: ‘I don’t know’? You cannot but know, since the Lord God in His infinite mercy has revealed it to us. Or your child will ask you: ‘What awaits me in the life beyond the tomb?’ What will you say to him when you know nothing? How will you answer him? Will you leave him to the allurements of the world and the devil? That’s not right. You are entering upon a time of life, when you must choose your path and keep to it. Pray to God that He may in His mercy aid you and have mercy on you! Our Lord and God, Jesus Christ, in the abundance and riches of His loving-kindness, forgives this child....", "pos": 1063714}
{"speaker": "Katavasov", "text": "See, now, what a capable fellow was our friend Konstantin Dmitrievitch. I’m not speaking of present company, for he’s absent. At the time he left the university he was fond of science, took an interest in humanity; now one-half of his abilities is devoted to deceiving himself, and the other to justifying the deceit.", "pos": 1067389}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "A more determined enemy of matrimony than you I never saw.", "pos": 1067789}
{"speaker": "Katavasov", "text": "Oh, no, I’m not an enemy of matrimony. I’m in favor of division of labor. People who can do nothing else ought to rear people while the rest work for their happiness and enlightenment. That’s how I look at it. To muddle up two trades is the error of the amateur; I’m not one of their number.", "pos": 1067874}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "How happy I shall be when I hear that you’re in love! Please invite me to the wedding. I’m in love now. Yes, with a cuttlefish! You know. Mihail Semyonovitch is writing a work on the digestive organs of the.... Now, make a muddle of it! It doesn’t matter what about. And the fact is, I certainly do love cuttlefish. But that’s no hindrance to your loving your wife. Why so?", "pos": 1068168}
{"speaker": "Katavasov", "text": "Oh, you’ll see! You care about farming, hunting,—well, you’d better look out!", "pos": 1068660}
{"speaker": "Tchirikov", "text": "Arhip was here today; he said there were a lot of elks in Prudno, and two bears,", "pos": 1068740}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, you must go and get them without me.", "pos": 1068839}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "And you may say good-bye to bear-hunting for the future—your wife won’t allow it!", "pos": 1068932}
{"speaker": "Tchirikov", "text": "Still, it’s a pity they should get those two bears without you. Do you remember last time at Hapilovo? That was a delightful hunt!", "pos": 1069163}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "There’s some sense in this custom of saying good-bye to bachelor life. However happy you may be, you must regret your freedom.", "pos": 1069447}
{"speaker": "Katavasov", "text": "Of course there is, but it isn’t confessed. Wait a bit, when you set it to rights a little, you’ll find it!", "pos": 1069701}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No; if so, I should have felt a little, apart from my feeling and happiness, a certain regret at losing my freedom.... On the contrary, I am glad at the very loss of my freedom.", "pos": 1070307}
{"speaker": "Katavasov", "text": "Awful! It’s a hopeless case! Well, let’s drink to his recovery, or wish that a hundredth part of his dreams may be realized—and that would be happiness such as never has been seen on earth!", "pos": 1070525}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Freedom! What is freedom for? Happiness is only in loving and wishing her wishes, thinking her thoughts, that is to say, not freedom at all—that’s happiness!", "pos": 1071022}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But do I know her ideas, her wishes, her feelings?", "pos": 1071182}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What if she does not love me? What if she’s marrying me simply to be married? What if she doesn’t see herself what she’s doing?", "pos": 1071437}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She may come to her senses, and only when she is being married realize that she does not and cannot love me.", "pos": 1071585}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, this can’t go on!", "pos": 1071950}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I’ll go to her; I’ll ask her; I’ll say for the last time: we are free, and hadn’t we better stay so? Anything’s better than endless misery, disgrace, unfaithfulness!", "pos": 1072005}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Ah! Kostya! Konstantin Dmitrievitch! I didn’t expect you! I’m going through my wardrobe to see what’s for whom....", "pos": 1072521}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh! that’s very nice!", "pos": 1072752}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "You can go, Dunyasha, I’ll call you presently. Kostya, what’s the matter?", "pos": 1072815}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Kitty! I’m in torture. I can’t suffer alone. I’ve come to say that there’s still time. This can all be stopped and set right.", "pos": 1073067}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "What? I don’t understand. What is the matter?", "pos": 1073437}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "What I have said a thousand times over, and can’t help thinking ... that I’m not worthy of you. You couldn’t consent to marry me. Think a little. You’ve made a mistake. Think it over thoroughly. You can’t love me.... If ... better say so. I shall be wretched. Let people say what they like; anything’s better than misery.... Far better now while there’s still time....", "pos": 1073485}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I don’t understand, you mean you want to give it up ... don’t want it?", "pos": 1073887}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, if you don’t love me.", "pos": 1073992}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "You’re out of your mind! What are you thinking? tell me all.", "pos": 1074021}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I am thinking you can’t love me. What can you love me for?", "pos": 1074259}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "My God! what can I do?...", "pos": 1074320}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh! what have I done?", "pos": 1074380}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "How is it you don’t see? She’s a brunette, and it won’t suit her.... I’ve worked it all out.", "pos": 1075212}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "As it is, she’s been eating nothing lately and is losing her looks, and then you must come and upset her with your nonsense. Get along with you, my dear!", "pos": 1075510}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Come, I’ll tell you how we’ll manage: you drive in our carriage to fetch him, and Sergey Ivanovitch, if he’ll be so good, will drive there and then send his carriage.", "pos": 1076819}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Of course; I shall be delighted.", "pos": 1076988}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "We’ll come on directly with him. Are your things sent off?", "pos": 1077023}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 1077110}
{"speaker": "Lady", "text": "It really is strange, though!", "pos": 1080018}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Was ever a man in such a fearful fool’s position?", "pos": 1080999}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, it is stupid. But don’t worry, it’ll be brought directly.", "pos": 1081060}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, what is to be done! And these fools of open waistcoats! Out of the question! And what if the things have been taken on to the railway station!", "pos": 1081177}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Then you must put on mine.", "pos": 1081442}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I ought to have done so long ago, if at all.", "pos": 1081471}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "It’s not nice to look ridiculous.... Wait a bit! it will come round.", "pos": 1081518}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But the shirt!", "pos": 1081741}
{"speaker": "Kouzma", "text": "You’ve got a shirt on,", "pos": 1081771}
{"speaker": "Kouzma", "text": "Only just in time. They were just lifting it into the van,", "pos": 1082830}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "You won’t help matters like this. It will come round, it will come round ... I tell you.", "pos": 1083029}
{"speaker": "Crowd", "text": "They’ve come! Here he is! Which one? Rather young, eh? Why, my dear soul, she looks more dead than alive!", "pos": 1083214}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I was beginning to think you meant to run away,", "pos": 1084360}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "It’s so stupid, what happened to me, I’m ashamed to speak of it!", "pos": 1084439}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "This is a pretty story of yours about the shirt!", "pos": 1084595}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, yes!", "pos": 1084700}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Now, Kostya, you have to decide, a weighty question. You are at this moment just in the humor to appreciate all its gravity. They ask me, are they to light the candles that have been lighted before or candles that have never been lighted? It’s a matter of ten roubles. I have decided, but I was afraid you might not agree. Well, how’s it to be then?—unlighted or lighted candles? that’s the question.", "pos": 1084777}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, yes, unlighted.", "pos": 1085330}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Oh, I’m very glad. The question’s decided! How silly men are, though, in this position,", "pos": 1085353}
{"speaker": "Countess Nordston", "text": "Kitty, mind you’re the first to step on the carpet. You’re a nice person!", "pos": 1085574}
{"speaker": "Marya Dmitrievna", "text": "Aren’t you frightened, eh?", "pos": 1085706}
{"speaker": "Madame Lvova", "text": "Are you cold? You’re pale. Stop a minute, stoop down,", "pos": 1085771}
{"speaker": "Best Man", "text": "Take the bride’s hand and lead her up,", "pos": 1086352}
{"speaker": "Head Deacon", "text": "Blessed be the name of the Lord,", "pos": 1088917}
{"speaker": "Priest", "text": "Blessed is the name of our God, from the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,", "pos": 1089055}
{"speaker": "Head Deacon", "text": "Vouchsafe to them love made perfect, peace and help, O Lord, we beseech Thee,", "pos": 1089652}
{"speaker": "Priest", "text": "Eternal God, that joinest together in love them that were separate, who hast ordained the union of holy wedlock that cannot be set asunder, Thou who didst bless Isaac and Rebecca and their descendants, according to Thy Holy Covenant; bless Thy servants, Konstantin and Ekaterina, leading them in the path of all good works. For gracious and merciful art Thou, our Lord, and glory be to Thee, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, now and ever shall be.", "pos": 1090198}
{"speaker": "Choir", "text": "Amen!", "pos": 1090693}
{"speaker": "Priest", "text": "The servant of God, Konstantin, plights his troth to the servant of God, Ekaterina.", "pos": 1093443}
{"speaker": "Priest", "text": "Thou who didst from the beginning create male and female, from Thee woman was given to man to be a helpmeet to him, and for the procreation of children. O Lord, our God, who hast poured down the blessings of Thy Truth according to Thy Holy Covenant upon Thy chosen servants, our fathers, from generation to generation, bless Thy servants Konstantin and Ekaterina, and make their troth fast in faith, and union of hearts, and truth, and love....", "pos": 1094558}
{"speaker": "Madame Korsunskaya", "text": "Why is it Marie’s in lilac, as bad as black, at a wedding?", "pos": 1096037}
{"speaker": "Madame Trubetskaya", "text": "With her complexion, it’s the one salvation. I wonder why they had the wedding in the evening? It’s like shop-people....", "pos": 1096123}
{"speaker": "Madame Korsunskaya", "text": "So much prettier. I was married in the evening too....", "pos": 1096278}
{"speaker": "Count Siniavin", "text": "They say if anyone’s best man more than ten times, he’ll never be married. I wanted to be for the tenth time, but the post was taken,", "pos": 1096504}
{"speaker": "Madame Nikolaeva", "text": "She ought not to have worn a chignon. I don’t like such grandeur.", "pos": 1097037}
{"speaker": "Darya Dmitrievna", "text": "Your brother may feel proud of himself. She’s a marvel of sweetness. I believe you’re envious.", "pos": 1097483}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Oh, I’ve got over that, Darya Dmitrievna,", "pos": 1097580}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "The wreath wants setting straight,", "pos": 1097780}
{"speaker": "Countess Nordston", "text": "What a pity she’s lost her looks so. Still he’s not worth her little finger, is he?", "pos": 1097848}
{"speaker": "Madame Lvova", "text": "Oh, I like him so—not because he’s my future beau-frère. And how well he’s behaving! It’s so difficult, too, to look well in such a position, not to be ridiculous. And he’s not ridiculous, and not affected; one can see he’s moved.", "pos": 1097976}
{"speaker": "Countess Nordston", "text": "You expected it, I suppose?", "pos": 1098234}
{"speaker": "Madame Lvova", "text": "Almost. She always cared for him.", "pos": 1098264}
{"speaker": "Countess Nordston", "text": "Well, we shall see which of them will step on the rug first. I warned Kitty.", "pos": 1098300}
{"speaker": "Madame Lvova", "text": "It will make no difference, we’re all obedient wives; it’s in our family.", "pos": 1098379}
{"speaker": "Countess Nordston", "text": "Oh, I stepped on the rug before Vassily on purpose. And you, Dolly?", "pos": 1098476}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "It’s terribly strange,", "pos": 1099432}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why has she been crying? Is she being married against her will?", "pos": 1099917}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Against her will to a fine fellow like that? A prince, isn’t he?", "pos": 1099983}
{"speaker": "Deacon", "text": "Is that her sister in the white satin? Just listen how the deacon booms out, ‘And fearing her husband.’ And fearing her husband.", "pos": 1100050}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Are the choristers from Tchudovo?", "pos": 1100156}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, from the Synod.", "pos": 1100192}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I asked the footman. He says he’s going to take her home to his country place at once. Awfully rich, they say. That’s why she’s being married to him.", "pos": 1100214}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, they’re a well-matched pair.", "pos": 1100366}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I say, Marya Vassilievna, you were making out those fly-away crinolines were not being worn. Just look at her in the puce dress—an ambassador’s wife they say she is—how her skirt bounces out from side to side!", "pos": 1100401}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What a pretty dear the bride is—like a lamb decked with flowers! Well, say what you will, we women feel for our sister.", "pos": 1100613}
{"speaker": "Priest", "text": "Endow them with continence and fruitfulness, and vouchsafe that their hearts may rejoice looking upon their sons and daughters. and for this cause a man shall leave father and mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh, this is a great mystery", "pos": 1102008}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "That’s all splendid, all that’s just as it should be. Put it on quite. Put it on!", "pos": 1102519}
{"speaker": "Priest", "text": "Kiss your wife, and you kiss your husband,", "pos": 1104344}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Ah! I’m glad to hear it. Is madame at home or not?", "pos": 1105769}
{"speaker": "waiter", "text": "Madame has been out for a walk but has returned now,", "pos": 1105838}
{"speaker": "head waiter", "text": "This gentleman is a Russian, and was inquiring after you,", "pos": 1106220}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Golenishtchev!", "pos": 1106615}
{"speaker": "Golenishtchev", "text": "Vronsky!", "pos": 1106632}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "How glad I am to meet you!", "pos": 1108061}
{"speaker": "Golenishtchev", "text": "I heard the name Vronsky, but I didn’t know which one. I’m very, very glad!", "pos": 1108156}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Let’s go in. Come, tell me what you’re doing.", "pos": 1108234}
{"speaker": "Golenishtchev", "text": "I’ve been living here for two years. I’m working.", "pos": 1108282}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Ah! let’s go in. Do you know Madame Karenina? We are traveling together. I am going to see her now,", "pos": 1108334}
{"speaker": "Golenishtchev", "text": "Ah! I did not know Have you been here long?", "pos": 1108674}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Four days. Yes, he’s a decent fellow, and will look at the thing properly. I can introduce him to Anna, he looks at it properly.", "pos": 1108789}
{"speaker": "Golenishtchev", "text": "It’s in the guide-book. There’s a first-rate Tintoretto there. One of his latest period.", "pos": 1111401}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I tell you what: it’s a lovely day, let’s go and have another look at it,", "pos": 1111558}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I shall be very glad to; I’ll go and put on my hat. Would you say it’s hot?", "pos": 1111665}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "No, not very. Well then, so you’re settled here? You’re still at the same work, then?", "pos": 1112051}
{"speaker": "Golenishtchev", "text": "Yes, I’m writing the second part of the Two Elements, that is, to be exact, I am not writing it yet; I am preparing, collecting materials. It will be of far wider scope, and will touch on almost all questions. We in Russia refuse to see that we are the heirs of Byzantium,", "pos": 1112720}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I am very glad of one thing. Alexey will have a capital atelier. You must certainly take that room,", "pos": 1115216}
{"speaker": "Golenishtchev", "text": "Do you paint?", "pos": 1115591}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Yes, I used to study long ago, and now I have begun to do a little,", "pos": 1115661}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "He has great talent. I’m no judge, of course. But good judges have said the same.", "pos": 1115756}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I have inevitably made that man wretched, but I don’t want to profit by his misery. I too am suffering, and shall suffer; I am losing what I prized above everything—I am losing my good name and my son. I have done wrong, and so I don’t want happiness, I don’t want a divorce, and shall suffer from my shame and the separation from my child.", "pos": 1117088}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Here we live, and know nothing of what’s going on. Have you seen Mihailov’s picture?", "pos": 1124320}
{"speaker": "Golenishtchev", "text": "I’ve seen it. Of course, he’s not without talent, but it’s all in a wrong direction. It’s all the Ivanov-Strauss-Renan attitude to Christ and to religious painting.", "pos": 1124849}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "What is the subject of the picture?", "pos": 1125042}
{"speaker": "Golenishtchev", "text": "Christ before Pilate. Christ is represented as a Jew with all the realism of the new school. I can’t understand how they can fall into such a gross mistake. Christ always has His definite embodiment in the art of the great masters. And therefore, if they want to depict, not God, but a revolutionist or a sage, let them take from history a Socrates, a Franklin, a Charlotte Corday, but not Christ. They take the very figure which cannot be taken for their art, and then....", "pos": 1125092}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "And is it true that this Mihailov is in such poverty?", "pos": 1125725}
{"speaker": "Golenishtchev", "text": "I should say not. He’s a remarkable portrait-painter. Have you ever seen his portrait of Madame Vassiltchikova? But I believe he doesn’t care about painting any more portraits, and so very likely he is in want. I maintain that....", "pos": 1125922}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Couldn’t we ask him to paint a portrait of Anna Arkadyevna?", "pos": 1126155}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Why mine? After yours I don’t want another portrait. Better have one of Annie Here she is,", "pos": 1126231}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Do you know this Mihailov?", "pos": 1127018}
{"speaker": "Golenishtchev", "text": "I have met him. But he’s a queer fish, and quite without breeding. You know, one of those uncouth new people one’s so often coming across nowadays, one of those free-thinkers you know, who are reared d’emblée in theories of atheism, scepticism, and materialism. In former days, in former days the free-thinker was a man who had been brought up in ideas of religion, law, and morality, and only through conflict and struggle came to free-thought; but now there has sprung up a new type of born free-thinkers who grow up without even having heard of principles of morality or of religion, of the existence of authorities, who grow up directly in ideas of negation in everything, that is to say, savages. Well, he’s of that class. He’s the son, it appears, of some Moscow butler, and has never had any sort of bringing-up. When he got into the academy and made his reputation he tried, as he’s no fool, to educate himself. And he turned to what seemed to him the very source of culture—the magazines. In old times, you see, a man who wanted to educate himself—a Frenchman, for instance—would have set to work to study all the classics and theologians and tragedians and historians and philosophers, and, you know, all the intellectual work that came in his way. But in our day he goes straight for the literature of negation, very quickly assimilates all the extracts of the science of negation, and he’s ready. And that’s not all—twenty years ago he would have found in that literature traces of conflict with authorities, with the creeds of the ages; he would have perceived from this conflict that there was something else; but now he comes at once upon a literature in which the old creeds do not even furnish matter for discussion, but it is stated baldly that there is nothing else—evolution, natural selection, struggle for existence—and that’s all. In my article I’ve....", "pos": 1127046}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I tell you what. I tell you what, let’s go and see him!", "pos": 1129033}
{"speaker": "Mihailov", "text": "I’ve said it to you twenty times, don’t enter into details. You’re fool enough at all times, and when you start explaining things in Italian you’re a fool three times as foolish,", "pos": 1130301}
{"speaker": "Mihailov's wife", "text": "Don’t let it run so long; it’s not my fault. If I had the money....", "pos": 1130512}
{"speaker": "Mihailov", "text": "Leave me in peace, for God’s sake! Idiotic woman! Oh! damn them all! No, that one was better ... where is it? That’s it! that’s it!", "pos": 1130582}
{"speaker": "Mihailov", "text": "Coming, coming! Come, Sasha, don’t be cross! You were to blame. I was to blame. I’ll make it all right.", "pos": 1132926}
{"speaker": "Mihailov", "text": "Please step in,", "pos": 1135348}
{"speaker": "Mihailov", "text": "Most likely they’ve already looked at all the antiques, and now they’re making the round of the studios of the new people, the German humbug, and the cracked Pre-Raphaelite English fellow, and have only come to me to make the point of view complete,", "pos": 1136695}
{"speaker": "Mihailov", "text": "Here, if you please, it’s the exhortation to Pilate. Matthew, chapter xxvii,", "pos": 1137866}
{"speaker": "Mihailov", "text": "I think I’ve had the pleasure of meeting you,", "pos": 1140193}
{"speaker": "Golenishtchev", "text": "To be sure! We met at Rossi’s, do you remember, at that soirée when that Italian lady recited—the new Rachel? Your picture has got on a great deal since I saw it last time; and what strikes me particularly now, as it did then, is the figure of Pilate. One so knows the man: a good-natured, capital fellow, but an official through and through, who does not know what it is he’s doing. But I fancy....", "pos": 1140348}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "How marvelous Christ’s expression is! One can see that He is pitying Pilate.", "pos": 1142438}
{"speaker": "Golenishtchev", "text": "Yes, and how that figure is done—what atmosphere! One can walk round it,", "pos": 1143255}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Yes, there’s a wonderful mastery! How those figures in the background stand out! There you have technique,", "pos": 1143451}
{"speaker": "Golenishtchev", "text": "Yes, yes, marvelous!", "pos": 1143704}
{"speaker": "Golenishtchev", "text": "One thing might be said, if you will allow me to make the remark....", "pos": 1145235}
{"speaker": "Mihailov", "text": "Oh, I shall be delighted, I beg you,", "pos": 1145330}
{"speaker": "Golenishtchev", "text": "That is, that you make Him the man-god, and not the God-man. But I know that was what you meant to do.", "pos": 1145404}
{"speaker": "Mihailov", "text": "I cannot paint a Christ that is not in my heart,", "pos": 1145509}
{"speaker": "Golenishtchev", "text": "Yes; but in that case, if you will allow me to say what I think.... Your picture is so fine that my observation cannot detract from it, and, besides, it is only my personal opinion. With you it is different. Your very motive is different. But let us take Ivanov. I imagine that if Christ is brought down to the level of an historical character, it would have been better for Ivanov to select some other historical subject, fresh, untouched.", "pos": 1145584}
{"speaker": "Mihailov", "text": "But if this is the greatest subject presented to art?", "pos": 1146027}
{"speaker": "Golenishtchev", "text": "If one looked one would find others. But the point is that art cannot suffer doubt and discussion. And before the picture of Ivanov the question arises for the believer and the unbeliever alike, ‘Is it God, or is it not God?’ and the unity of the impression is destroyed.", "pos": 1146083}
{"speaker": "Mihailov", "text": "Why so? I think that for educated people, the question cannot exist. Oh, how exquisite! What a lovely thing! A gem! How exquisite! What is it they’re so pleased with? Oh, that’s only an old study,", "pos": 1146357}
{"speaker": "Golenishtchev", "text": "How fine!", "pos": 1147501}
{"speaker": "Mihailov", "text": "It is put up there to be sold,", "pos": 1148407}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "What an exquisite thing! How he has succeeded in it, and how simply! He doesn’t even comprehend how good it is. Yes, I mustn’t let it slip; I must buy it. One needs to know and love her as I have loved her to discover the very sweetest expression of her soul. I have been struggling on for ever so long without doing anything, and he just looked and painted it. That’s where technique comes in.", "pos": 1150733}
{"speaker": "Golenishtchev", "text": "That will come,", "pos": 1151747}
{"speaker": "Golenishtchev", "text": "Not envious, let us say, since he has talent; but it annoys him that a wealthy man of the highest society, and a count, too (you know they all detest a title), can, without any particular trouble, do as well, if not better, than he who has devoted all his life to it. And more than all, it’s a question of culture, which he is without.", "pos": 1153639}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "What is it?", "pos": 1162813}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "You’ve been enjoying yourself,", "pos": 1162826}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, they draw away all the sap and give a false appearance of prosperity. Well?", "pos": 1170831}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "It’s nothing; I wanted you to look round,", "pos": 1171088}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "How happy we are alone together!—I am, that is,", "pos": 1171226}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I’m just as happy. I’ll never go anywhere, especially not to Moscow.", "pos": 1171336}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "And what were you thinking about?", "pos": 1171407}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I? I was thinking.... No, no, go along, go on writing; don’t break off, and I must cut out these little holes now, do you see?", "pos": 1171443}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No; tell me, what was it?", "pos": 1171658}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh! what was I thinking about? I was thinking about Moscow, about the back of your head.", "pos": 1171764}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Why should I, of all people, have such happiness! It’s unnatural, too good,", "pos": 1171855}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I feel quite the opposite; the better things are, the more natural it seems to me.", "pos": 1171960}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "And you’ve got a little curl loose,", "pos": 1172045}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "A little curl, oh yes. No, no, we are busy at our work!", "pos": 1172126}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Have they come from the town?", "pos": 1172320}
{"speaker": "Kouzma", "text": "They’ve just come; they’re unpacking the things.", "pos": 1172372}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Come quickly, or else I shall read your letters without you.", "pos": 1172423}
{"speaker": "Agafea Mihalovna", "text": "You see, your good lady’s settled me here, told me to sit a bit with her,", "pos": 1175444}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Here, I opened your letter too. It’s from that woman, I think, your brother’s.... I did not read it through. This is from my people and from Dolly. Fancy! Dolly took Tanya and Grisha to a children’s ball at the Sarmatskys’: Tanya was a French marquise.", "pos": 1175886}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Read this; Dolly writes about you. What is it? What’s the matter?", "pos": 1177283}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "She writes to me that Nikolay, my brother, is at death’s door. I shall go to him.", "pos": 1177469}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "When are you going?", "pos": 1177644}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Tomorrow.", "pos": 1177676}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "And I will go with you, can I?", "pos": 1177688}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Kitty! What are you thinking of?", "pos": 1177731}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "How do you mean? Why shouldn’t I go? I shan’t be in your way. I....", "pos": 1177789}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I’m going because my brother is dying. Why should you....", "pos": 1177944}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Why? For the same reason as you.", "pos": 1178018}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "It’s out of the question,", "pos": 1178225}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I tell you, that if you go, I shall come with you; I shall certainly come. Why out of the question? Why do you say it’s out of the question?", "pos": 1178531}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Because it’ll be going God knows where, by all sorts of roads and to all sorts of hotels. You would be a hindrance to me,", "pos": 1178709}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Not at all. I don’t want anything. Where you can go, I can....", "pos": 1178864}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, for one thing then, because this woman’s there whom you can’t meet.", "pos": 1178929}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I don’t know and don’t care to know who’s there and what. I know that my husband’s brother is dying and my husband is going to him, and I go with my husband too....", "pos": 1179005}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Kitty! Don’t get angry. But just think a little: this is a matter of such importance that I can’t bear to think that you should bring in a feeling of weakness, of dislike to being left alone. Come, you’ll be dull alone, so go and stay at Moscow a little.", "pos": 1179172}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "There, you always ascribe base, vile motives to me. I didn’t mean, it wasn’t weakness, it wasn’t ... I feel that it’s my duty to be with my husband when he’s in trouble, but you try on purpose to hurt me, you try on purpose not to understand....", "pos": 1179429}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No; this is awful! To be such a slave!", "pos": 1179726}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Then why did you marry? You could have been free. Why did you, if you regret it?", "pos": 1179897}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Kitty!", "pos": 1180413}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Go, do go!", "pos": 1183374}
{"speaker": "Marya Nikolaevna", "text": "Well, how is he? how is he? Very bad. He can’t get up. He has kept expecting you. He.... Are you ... with your wife? I’ll go away. I’ll go down to the kitchen. Nikolay Dmitrievitch will be delighted. He heard about it, and knows your lady, and remembers her abroad.", "pos": 1183766}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Come along, come along to him!", "pos": 1184244}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Well! how is he?", "pos": 1184899}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But one can’t go on talking in the passage like this!", "pos": 1184961}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Well then, come in, or go on; go, and then come for me,", "pos": 1185146}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "You did not expect to find me like this,", "pos": 1187544}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes ... no. How was it you didn’t let me know before, that is, at the time of my wedding? I made inquiries in all directions.", "pos": 1187615}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "Very well, and I’ll tell her to tidy up here. It’s dirty and stinking here, I expect. Marya! clear up the room. Oh, and when you’ve cleared up, go away yourself,", "pos": 1188636}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Well, how is he?", "pos": 1189184}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, it’s awful, it’s awful! What did you come for?", "pos": 1189239}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Kostya! take me to him; it will be easier for us to bear it together. You only take me, take me to him, please, and go away. You must understand that for me to see you, and not to see him, is far more painful. There I might be a help to you and to him. Please, let me!", "pos": 1189445}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "We have met, though we were not acquainted, at Soden. You never thought I was to be your sister?", "pos": 1190464}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "You would not have recognized me?", "pos": 1190575}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Yes, I should. What a good thing you let us know! Not a day has passed that Kostya has not mentioned you, and been anxious. I am afraid you are not quite comfortable here. We must ask about another room, so that we might be nearer.", "pos": 1190658}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Make haste,", "pos": 1194675}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "Oh, don’t you come. I’ll do it my myself....", "pos": 1194699}
{"speaker": "Marya Nikolaevna", "text": "What say?", "pos": 1194775}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I’m not looking, I’m not looking! Marya Nikolaevna, you come this side, you do it. Please go for me, there’s a little bottle in my small bag, you know, in the side pocket; bring it, please, and meanwhile they’ll finish clearing up here.", "pos": 1194897}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "Your Katya. I’m much better already. Why, with you I should have got well long ago. How nice it is! Now turn me over on the left side and go to bed,", "pos": 1196590}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "On the other side, he always sleeps on that side. Turn him over, it’s so disagreeable calling the servants. I’m not strong enough. Can you?", "pos": 1197238}
{"speaker": "Marya Nikolaevna", "text": "I’m afraid not,", "pos": 1197437}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.", "pos": 1198415}
{"speaker": "Agafea Mihalovna", "text": "Well, thank God, he took the sacrament and received absolution; God grant each one of us such a death.", "pos": 1201358}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I am very glad I persuaded him to receive extreme unction tomorrow. I have never seen it, but I know, mamma has told me, there are prayers said for recovery.", "pos": 1203100}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Do you suppose he can possibly recover?", "pos": 1203387}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I asked the doctor; he said he couldn’t live more than three days. But can they be sure? I’m very glad, anyway, that I persuaded him. Anything is possible,", "pos": 1203575}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, you see this woman, Marya Nikolaevna, did not know how to manage all this. And ... I must own I’m very, very glad you came. You are such purity that....", "pos": 1204516}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "It would have been miserable for you to be alone. No, she did not know how.... Luckily, I learned a lot at Soden.", "pos": 1204873}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Surely there are not people there so ill?", "pos": 1205153}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Worse.", "pos": 1205197}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "What’s so awful to me is that I can’t see him as he was when he was young. You would not believe how charming he was as a youth, but I did not understand him then.", "pos": 1205206}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I can quite, quite believe it. How I feel that we might have been friends!", "pos": 1205372}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, might have been. He’s just one of those people of whom they say they’re not for this world.", "pos": 1205560}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "But we have many days before us; we must go to bed,", "pos": 1205681}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "If Thou dost exist, make this man to recover", "pos": 1207253}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Is he better?", "pos": 1207934}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, much.", "pos": 1207950}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s wonderful.", "pos": 1207963}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There’s nothing wonderful in it.", "pos": 1207981}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Anyway, he’s better,", "pos": 1208016}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "Is Katya not here? No; so I can say it.... It was for her sake I went through that farce. She’s so sweet; but you and I can’t deceive ourselves. This is what I believe in,", "pos": 1208844}
{"speaker": "Marya Nikolaevna", "text": "He is dying! I’m afraid will die this minute.", "pos": 1209359}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "How do you feel?", "pos": 1209547}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "I feel I’m setting off. Katya, go away! I’m setting off,", "pos": 1209609}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Why do you think so?", "pos": 1209963}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "Because I’m setting off. It’s the end.", "pos": 1210022}
{"speaker": "Marya Nikolaevna", "text": "You had better lie down; you’d be easier,", "pos": 1210153}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "I shall lie down soon enough, when I’m dead. Well, you can lay me down if you like.", "pos": 1210207}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "Yes, yes, so. Wait a little. Right! O Lord!", "pos": 1210887}
{"speaker": "Marya Nikolaevna", "text": "They’re getting cold,", "pos": 1211140}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "Don’t go away,", "pos": 1212150}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "Don’t go.", "pos": 1212727}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "I’m suffering horribly, intolerably!", "pos": 1213630}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "What am I to write to him? I hope you are not angry with him?", "pos": 1215119}
{"speaker": "Nikolay Levin", "text": "No, not the least! Tell him to send me a doctor.", "pos": 1215197}
{"speaker": "The sick man", "text": "Oh, if it were only the end! When will it be over?", "pos": 1215953}
{"speaker": "The sick man", "text": "Turn me over on the other side. Give me some broth. Take away the broth. Talk of something: why are you silent?", "pos": 1217421}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "How do you feel?", "pos": 1218238}
{"speaker": "The sick man", "text": "Worse. In pain!", "pos": 1218272}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "In pain, where?", "pos": 1218324}
{"speaker": "The sick man", "text": "Everywhere.", "pos": 1218342}
{"speaker": "Marya Nikolaevna", "text": "It will be over today, you will see,", "pos": 1218356}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Why do you think so?", "pos": 1218704}
{"speaker": "Marya Nikolaevna", "text": "He has begun picking at himself,", "pos": 1218789}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "How do you mean?", "pos": 1218847}
{"speaker": "Marya Nikolaevna", "text": "Like this,", "pos": 1218866}
{"speaker": "The priest", "text": "He is gone,", "pos": 1219889}
{"speaker": "The dead man", "text": "Not quite ... soon.", "pos": 1220145}
{"speaker": "The clerk", "text": "Excuse me, your excellency, for venturing to trouble you. But if you direct us to apply to her excellency, would you graciously oblige us with her address?", "pos": 1223922}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "So you’ll get this ready for me?", "pos": 1229147}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "J’ai forcé la consigne. I have heard all! Alexey Alexandrovitch! Dear friend!", "pos": 1229880}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Won’t you sit down, countess? I’m seeing no one because I’m unwell, countess,", "pos": 1230244}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "Dear friend! Dear friend! You ought not to give way to grief. Your sorrow is a great one, but you ought to find consolation.", "pos": 1230356}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I am crushed, I am annihilated, I am no longer a man! My position is so awful because I can find nowhere, I cannot find within me strength to support me.", "pos": 1230891}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "You will find support; seek it—not in me, though I beseech you to believe in my friendship. Our support is love, that love that He has vouchsafed us. His burden is light. He will be your support and your succor.", "pos": 1231139}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I am weak. I am crushed. I foresaw nothing, and now I understand nothing.", "pos": 1231731}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "Dear friend,", "pos": 1231807}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "It’s not the loss of what I have not now, it’s not that! I do not grieve for that. But I cannot help feeling humiliated before other people for the position I am placed in. It is wrong, but I can’t help it, I can’t help it.", "pos": 1231847}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "Not you it was performed that noble act of forgiveness, at which I was moved to ecstasy, and everyone else too, but He, working within your heart, and so you cannot be ashamed of your act.", "pos": 1232106}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "One must know all the facts. A man’s strength has its limits, countess, and I have reached my limits. The whole day I have had to be making arrangements, arrangements about household matters arising from my new, solitary position. The servants, the governess, the accounts.... These pinpricks have stabbed me to the heart, and I have not the strength to bear it. At dinner ... yesterday, I was almost getting up from the dinner-table. I could not bear the way my son looked at me. He did not ask me the meaning of it all, but he wanted to ask, and I could not bear the look in his eyes. He was afraid to look at me, but that is not all....", "pos": 1232448}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "I understand, dear friend. I understand it all. Succor and comfort you will find not in me, though I have come only to aid you if I can. If I could take from off you all these petty, humiliating cares ... I understand that a woman’s word, a woman’s superintendence is needed. You will intrust it to me? Together we will take care of Seryozha. Practical affairs are not my strong point. But I will set to work. I will be your housekeeper. Don’t thank me. I do it not from myself....", "pos": 1233368}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I cannot help thanking you.", "pos": 1233941}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "But, dear friend, do not give way to the feeling of which you spoke—being ashamed of what is the Christian’s highest glory: he who humbles himself shall be exalted. And you cannot thank me. You must thank Him, and pray to Him for succor. In Him alone we find peace, consolation, salvation, and love,", "pos": 1233971}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I am very, very grateful to you, both for your deeds and for your words,", "pos": 1235225}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "Now I will enter upon my duties. I am going to Seryozha. Only in the last extremity shall I apply to you.", "pos": 1235407}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "If only Countess Marya Borissovna were Minister of War, and Princess Vatkovskaya were Commander-in-Chief,", "pos": 1244557}
{"speaker": "Maid of honor", "text": "And me among the adjutants,", "pos": 1244824}
{"speaker": "Little old man", "text": "You have an appointment already. You’re over the ecclesiastical department. And your assistant’s Karenin. Good-day, prince!", "pos": 1244887}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "What were you saying of Karenin?", "pos": 1245068}
{"speaker": "Little old man", "text": "He and Putyatov have received the Alexander Nevsky. I thought he had it already. No. Just look at him. Pleased and happy as a brass farthing,", "pos": 1245120}
{"speaker": "Gentleman of the bedchamber", "text": "Looking older, did you say? Il fait des passions. I believe Countess Lidia Ivanovna’s jealous now of his wife. Oh, come now, please don’t say any harm of Countess Lidia Ivanovna. Why, is there any harm in her being in love with Karenin? But is it true Madame Karenina’s here? Well, not here in the palace, but in Petersburg. I met her yesterday with Alexey Vronsky, bras dessous, bras dessous, in the Morsky. C’est un homme qui n’a pas,...", "pos": 1245804}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Thank you. What an exquisite day today,", "pos": 1250096}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "I congratulate you. How is our angel?", "pos": 1251443}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I can’t say I was quite pleased with him. And Sitnikov is not satisfied with him. As I have mentioned to you, there’s a sort of coldness in him towards the most important questions which ought to touch the heart of every man and every child....", "pos": 1251842}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "Yes, but the heart. I see in him his father’s heart, and with such a heart a child cannot go far wrong,", "pos": 1252949}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Yes, perhaps.... As for me, I do my duty. It’s all I can do.", "pos": 1253092}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "You’re coming to me, we have to speak of a subject painful for you. I would give anything to have spared you certain memories, but others are not of the same mind. I have received a letter from her. She is here in Petersburg.", "pos": 1253155}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I was expecting it,", "pos": 1253597}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "Well now, we can sit quietly, and talk over our tea.", "pos": 1254323}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I don’t think I have the right to refuse her,", "pos": 1254706}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "Dear friend, you never see evil in anyone!", "pos": 1254789}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "On the contrary, I see that all is evil. But whether it is just....", "pos": 1254834}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "No, there are limits to everything. I can understand immorality, but I don’t understand cruelty: to whom? to you! How can she stay in the town where you are? No, the longer one lives the more one learns. And I’m learning to understand your loftiness and her baseness.", "pos": 1255018}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Who is to throw a stone? I have forgiven all, and so I cannot deprive her of what is exacted by love in her—by her love for her son....", "pos": 1255436}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "But is that love, my friend? Is it sincere? Admitting that you have forgiven—that you forgive—have we the right to work on the feelings of that angel? He looks on her as dead. He prays for her, and beseeches God to have mercy on her sins. And it is better so. But now what will he think?", "pos": 1255655}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I had not thought of that,", "pos": 1255945}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "If you ask my advice. I do not advise you to do this. Do you suppose I don’t see how you are suffering, how this has torn open your wounds? But supposing that, as always, you don’t think of yourself, what can it lead to?—to fresh suffering for you, to torture for the child. If there were a trace of humanity left in her, she ought not to wish for it herself. No, I have no hesitation in saying I advise not, and if you will intrust it to me, I will write to her.", "pos": 1256105}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia", "text": "Dear Madame. To be reminded of you might have results for your son in leading to questions on his part which could not be answered without implanting in the child’s soul a spirit of censure towards what should be for him sacred, and therefore I beg you to interpret your husband’s refusal in the spirit of Christian love. I pray to Almighty God to have mercy on you. Countess Lidia.", "pos": 1256736}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "But how have I been to blame?", "pos": 1258501}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "Well, Kapitonitch? Well, has the bandaged clerk been here today? Did papa see him?", "pos": 1259556}
{"speaker": "the hall-porter", "text": "He saw him. The minute the chief secretary came out, I announced him. Here, I’ll take it off.", "pos": 1259861}
{"speaker": "the tutor", "text": "Seryozha! Take it off yourself.", "pos": 1260006}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "Well, and did papa do what he wanted for him? Well, was he very glad?", "pos": 1260270}
{"speaker": "the hall-porter", "text": "Glad? I should think so! Almost dancing as he walked away.", "pos": 1260823}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "And has anything been left?", "pos": 1260884}
{"speaker": "the hall-porter", "text": "Come, sir. Something from the countess.", "pos": 1260945}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "What do you say? Where?", "pos": 1261186}
{"speaker": "the hall-porter", "text": "Korney took it to your papa. A fine plaything it must be too!", "pos": 1261212}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "How big? Like this?", "pos": 1261276}
{"speaker": "the hall-porter", "text": "Rather small, but a fine thing.", "pos": 1261298}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "A book.", "pos": 1261332}
{"speaker": "the porter", "text": "No, a thing. Run along, run along, Vassily Lukitch is calling you,", "pos": 1261342}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "Vassily Lukitch, in a tiny minute!", "pos": 1261596}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "You know papa’s received the Alexander Nevsky today?", "pos": 1262240}
{"speaker": "the porter", "text": "To be sure I do! People have been already to congratulate him.", "pos": 1262295}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "And is he glad?", "pos": 1262360}
{"speaker": "the porter", "text": "Glad at the Tsar’s gracious favor! I should think so! It’s a proof he’s deserved it,", "pos": 1262378}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "Well, and has your daughter been to see you lately?", "pos": 1262744}
{"speaker": "the porter", "text": "When is she to come on week-days? They’ve their lessons to learn too. And you’ve your lesson, sir; run along.", "pos": 1262841}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "What do you think? No, do just tell me, Vassily Lukitch, what is greater than the Alexander Nevsky? You know papa’s received the Alexander Nevsky? And higher still?", "pos": 1263112}
{"speaker": "Vassily Lukitch", "text": "Well, highest of all is the Andrey Pervozvanny.", "pos": 1263598}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "And higher than the Andrey?", "pos": 1263648}
{"speaker": "Vassily Lukitch", "text": "I don’t know.", "pos": 1263678}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "What, you don’t know?", "pos": 1263694}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "Mihail Ivanitch, when is your birthday?", "pos": 1264997}
{"speaker": "the teacher", "text": "You’d much better be thinking about your work. Birthdays are of no importance to a rational being. It’s a day like any other on which one has to do one’s work.", "pos": 1265066}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "But why have they all agreed to speak just in the same manner always the dreariest and most useless stuff? Why does he keep me off; why doesn’t he love me?", "pos": 1265558}
{"speaker": "Vassily Lukitch", "text": "Here is your papa!", "pos": 1267701}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Did you have a nice walk?", "pos": 1267920}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "Yes, it was very nice indeed, papa. I saw Nadinka She told me you’d been given a new star. Are you glad, papa?", "pos": 1268286}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "First of all, don’t rock your chair, please. And secondly, it’s not the reward that’s precious, but the work itself. And I could have wished you understood that. If you now are going to work, to study in order to win a reward, then the work will seem hard to you; but when you work loving your work, you will find your reward in it. You understand that, I hope?", "pos": 1268566}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "Yes, papa,", "pos": 1269658}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, what are the names of the patriarchs?", "pos": 1272323}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Enoch, Enos—", "pos": 1272369}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But you have said that already. This is bad, Seryozha, very bad. If you don’t try to learn what is more necessary than anything for a Christian,", "pos": 1272384}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "whatever can interest you? I am displeased with you, and Piotr Ignatitch", "pos": 1272560}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "is displeased with you.... I shall have to punish you.", "pos": 1272681}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Vassily Lukitch, do you know what I prayed for tonight extra besides the regular things?", "pos": 1274517}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That you might learn your lessons better?", "pos": 1274608}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No.", "pos": 1274652}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Toys?", "pos": 1274658}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No. You’ll never guess. A splendid thing; but it’s a secret! When it comes to pass I’ll tell you. Can’t you guess!", "pos": 1274666}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, I can’t guess. You tell me,", "pos": 1274783}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Come, lie down, I’m putting out the candle.", "pos": 1274877}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Without the candle I can see better what I see and what I prayed for. There! I was almost telling the secret!", "pos": 1274923}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "At last!", "pos": 1278471}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And Anna? How glad I am! Where are you stopping? I can fancy after your delightful travels you must find our poor Petersburg horrid. I can fancy your honeymoon in Rome. How about the divorce? Is that all over?", "pos": 1278508}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "People will throw stones at me, I know, but I shall come and see Anna; yes, I shall certainly come. You won’t be here long, I suppose?", "pos": 1278823}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You’ve never told me when the divorce is to be? Supposing I’m ready to fling my cap over the mill, other starchy people will give you the cold shoulder until you’re married. And that’s so simple nowadays. Ça se fait. So you’re going on Friday? Sorry we shan’t see each other again.", "pos": 1279272}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You know, Alexey, how fond I am of you, and how ready I am to do anything for you; but I have not spoken, because I knew I could be of no use to you and to Anna Arkadyevna,", "pos": 1280187}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Don’t suppose, please, that I judge her. Never; perhaps in her place I should have done the same. I don’t and can’t enter into that,", "pos": 1280434}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But one must call things by their names. You want me to go and see her, to ask her here, and to rehabilitate her in society; but do understand that I cannot do so. I have daughters growing up, and I must live in the world for my husband’s sake. Well, I’m ready to come and see Anna Arkadyevna: she will understand that I can’t ask her here, or I should have to do so in such a way that she would not meet people who look at things differently; that would offend her. I can’t raise her....", "pos": 1280616}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, I don’t regard her as fallen more than hundreds of women you do receive!", "pos": 1281107}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Alexey! don’t be angry with me. Please understand that I’m not to blame,", "pos": 1281327}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I’m not angry with you,", "pos": 1281450}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but I’m sorry in two ways. I’m sorry, too, that this means breaking up our friendship—if not breaking up, at least weakening it. You will understand that for me, too, it cannot be otherwise.", "pos": 1281503}
{"speaker": "Kapitonitch", "text": "Run and see what’s wanted. Some lady,", "pos": 1287552}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Seryozha—Sergey Alexeitch,", "pos": 1287923}
{"speaker": "porter's assistant", "text": "Whom do you want?", "pos": 1288064}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "From Prince Skorodumov for Sergey Alexeitch,", "pos": 1288294}
{"speaker": "Kapitonitch", "text": "His honor’s not up yet. Would you kindly wait? Please walk in, your excellency. The tutor’s there; maybe he’s not dressed. I’ll let him know. This way, to the left, if you please. Excuse its not being tidy. His honor’s in the old parlor now. Excuse me, wait a little, your excellency; I’ll just see. He’s only just awake,", "pos": 1288351}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Let me in; go away! Seryozha!", "pos": 1289872}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Seryozha! Seryozha! my darling boy!", "pos": 1290827}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "Mother! I know, it’s my birthday today. I knew you’d come. I’ll get up directly. What are you crying for, mother? Mother, what are you crying for?", "pos": 1291333}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I won’t cry ... I’m crying for joy. It’s so long since I’ve seen you. I won’t, I won’t. Come, it’s time for you to dress now. How do you dress without me? How....", "pos": 1292261}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "I don’t have a cold bath, papa didn’t order it. And you’ve not seen Vassily Lukitch? He’ll come in soon. Why, you’re sitting on my clothes! Mother, darling, sweet one! I don’t want that on,", "pos": 1292720}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "But what did you think about me? You didn’t think I was dead?", "pos": 1293246}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "I never believed it.", "pos": 1293310}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "You didn’t believe it, my sweet?", "pos": 1293333}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "I knew, I knew!", "pos": 1293368}
{"speaker": "Vassily Lukitch", "text": "I’ll wait another ten minutes,", "pos": 1294317}
{"speaker": "Kapitonitch", "text": "Oh yes, to be sure you’d not have let her in! After ten years’ service, and never a word but of kindness, and there you’d up and say, ‘Be off, go along, get away with you!’ Oh yes, you’re a shrewd one at politics, I dare say! You don’t need to be taught how to swindle the master, and to filch fur coats!", "pos": 1295193}
{"speaker": "Korney", "text": "Soldier! Here, what do you think, Marya Efimovna: he let her in without a word to anyone. Alexey Alexandrovitch will be down immediately—and go into the nursery!", "pos": 1295500}
{"speaker": "the nurse", "text": "A pretty business, a pretty business! You, Korney Vassilievitch, you’d best keep him some way or other, the master, while I’ll run and get her away somehow. A pretty business!", "pos": 1295770}
{"speaker": "the nurse", "text": "Mistress, darling! God has brought joy indeed to our boy on his birthday. You aren’t changed one bit.", "pos": 1296587}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh, nurse dear, I didn’t know you were in the house,", "pos": 1296764}
{"speaker": "the nurse", "text": "I’m not living here, I’m living with my daughter. I came for the birthday, Anna Arkadyevna, darling!", "pos": 1296860}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "Mother! She often comes to see me, and when she comes....", "pos": 1297267}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "My sweet! good-bye Darling, darling Kootik! you won’t forget me? You....", "pos": 1297578}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "Don’t go yet. He won’t come just yet.", "pos": 1298648}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Seryozha, my darling, love him; he’s better and kinder than I am, and I have done him wrong. When you grow up you will judge.", "pos": 1298921}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "There’s no one better than you!...", "pos": 1299061}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "My sweet, my little one!", "pos": 1299260}
{"speaker": "the nurse", "text": "He’s coming,", "pos": 1299489}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Presently. Later on,", "pos": 1300930}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh, here is he! But where is he? How is it he leaves me alone in my misery?", "pos": 1303717}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "But he ought to tell me so. I must know that it is so. If I knew it, then I know what I should do,", "pos": 1305270}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "We have met already. We met last year at the races. Give them to me. Were the races good this year? Instead of them I saw the races in the Corso in Rome. But you don’t care for life abroad. I know you and all your tastes, though I have seen so little of you.", "pos": 1306185}
{"speaker": "Yashvin", "text": "I’m awfully sorry for that, for my tastes are mostly bad,", "pos": 1306773}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Not long, I think,", "pos": 1307082}
{"speaker": "Yashvin", "text": "So then we shan’t meet again?", "pos": 1307147}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Come and dine with me. The dinner here is not good, but at least you will see him. There is no one of his old friends in the regiment Alexey cares for as he does for you.", "pos": 1307179}
{"speaker": "Yashvin", "text": "Delighted,", "pos": 1307512}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Are you going too?", "pos": 1307671}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I’m late already. Run along! I’ll catch you up in a moment,", "pos": 1307709}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Wait a minute, there’s something I want to say to you. Oh, was it right my asking him to dinner?", "pos": 1307955}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "You did quite right,", "pos": 1308110}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Alexey, you have not changed to me? Alexey, I am miserable here. When are we going away?", "pos": 1308213}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Soon, soon. You wouldn’t believe how disagreeable our way of living here is to me too,", "pos": 1308351}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Well, go, go!", "pos": 1308476}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Very sorry that I can’t come just between half-past six and nine,", "pos": 1310387}
{"speaker": "Tushkevitch", "text": "The princess will be very sorry.", "pos": 1310484}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "And so am I.", "pos": 1310519}
{"speaker": "Tushkevitch", "text": "You’re going, no doubt, to hear Patti?", "pos": 1310534}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Patti? You suggest the idea to me. I would go if it were possible to get a box.", "pos": 1310593}
{"speaker": "Tushkevitch", "text": "I can get one,", "pos": 1310675}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I should be very, very grateful to you. But won’t you dine with us?", "pos": 1310726}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Are you really going to the theater?", "pos": 1311889}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Why do you ask with such alarm? Why shouldn’t I go?", "pos": 1311964}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Oh, of course, there’s no reason whatever,", "pos": 1312127}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "That’s just what I say,", "pos": 1312191}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Anna, for God’s sake! what is the matter with you?", "pos": 1312327}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I don’t understand what you are asking.", "pos": 1312444}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "You know that it’s out of the question to go.", "pos": 1312486}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Why so? I’m not going alone. Princess Varvara has gone to dress, she is going with me.", "pos": 1312534}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "But do you mean to say you don’t know?...", "pos": 1312688}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "But I don’t care to know! I don’t care to. Do I regret what I have done? No, no, no! If it were all to do again from the beginning, it would be the same. For us, for you and for me, there is only one thing that matters, whether we love each other. Other people we need not consider. Why are we living here apart and not seeing each other? Why can’t I go? I love you, and I don’t care for anything. If you have not changed to me, why don’t you look at me?", "pos": 1312742}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "My feeling cannot change, you know, but I beg you, I entreat you,", "pos": 1313482}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "And I beg you to explain why I should not go.", "pos": 1313751}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Because it might cause you....", "pos": 1313799}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I don’t understand. Yashvin n’est pas compromettant, and Princess Varvara is no worse than others. Oh, here she is!", "pos": 1313846}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "But how can she fail to see it, and what is going on in her?", "pos": 1314586}
{"speaker": "Yashvin", "text": "You were talking of Lankovsky’s Powerful. That’s a fine horse, and I would advise you to buy him. His hind-quarters aren’t quite first-rate, but the legs and head—one couldn’t wish for anything better.", "pos": 1314983}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I think I will take him,", "pos": 1315242}
{"speaker": "Yashvin", "text": "Anna Arkadyevna gave orders to announce that she has gone to the theater. Well, let’s go,", "pos": 1315492}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I’m not going,", "pos": 1315855}
{"speaker": "Yashvin", "text": "Well, I must, I promised to. Good-bye, then. If you do, come to the stalls; you can take Kruzin’s stall,", "pos": 1315899}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "No, I’m busy.", "pos": 1316036}
{"speaker": "Yashvin", "text": "A wife is a care, but it’s worse when she’s not a wife,", "pos": 1316052}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "And what’s today? The fourth night.... Yegor and his wife are there, and my mother, most likely. Of course all Petersburg’s there. Now she’s gone in, taken off her cloak and come into the light. Tushkevitch, Yashvin, Princess Varvara. What about me? Either that I’m frightened or have given up to Tushkevitch the right to protect her? From every point of view—stupid, stupid!... And why is she putting me in such a position? If you care to be in my service,", "pos": 1316240}
{"speaker": "the colonel of his regiment", "text": "Ah, Vronsky! When are you coming to the regiment? We can’t let you off without a supper. You’re one of the old set,", "pos": 1324581}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I can’t stop, awfully sorry, another time,", "pos": 1324733}
{"speaker": "Varya", "text": "I think it’s mean and hateful, and Madame Kartasova had no right to do it. Madame Karenina....", "pos": 1325189}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "But what is it? I don’t know.", "pos": 1325297}
{"speaker": "Varya", "text": "What? you’ve not heard?", "pos": 1325329}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "You know I should be the last person to hear of it.", "pos": 1325355}
{"speaker": "Varya", "text": "There isn’t a more spiteful creature than that Madame Kartasova!", "pos": 1325409}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "But what did she do?", "pos": 1325476}
{"speaker": "Varya", "text": "My husband told me.... She has insulted Madame Karenina. Her husband began talking to her across the box, and Madame Kartasova made a scene. She said something aloud, he says, something insulting, and went away.", "pos": 1325499}
{"speaker": "Princess Sorokina", "text": "Count, your maman is asking for you,", "pos": 1325713}
{"speaker": "Vronsky’s mother", "text": "I’ve been expecting you all the while. You were nowhere to be seen.", "pos": 1325822}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Good evening, maman. I have come to you,", "pos": 1325994}
{"speaker": "Madame Kartasova", "text": "There are no more tenors. Le moule en est brisé!", "pos": 1326935}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "You came in late, I think, and have missed the best song,", "pos": 1327037}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I am a poor judge of music. Like Prince Yashvin, who considers that Patti sings too loud. Thank you,", "pos": 1327160}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "You, you are to blame for everything!", "pos": 1327941}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I begged, I implored you not to go, I knew it would be unpleasant....", "pos": 1328051}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Unpleasant! hideous! As long as I live I shall never forget it. She said it was a disgrace to sit beside me.", "pos": 1328123}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Anna! How does the question of my love come in?", "pos": 1328403}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh, if you loved me, as I love, if you were tortured as I am!...", "pos": 1328453}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Take me with you. I am very fond of picking mushrooms. I think it’s a very nice occupation.", "pos": 1331151}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "Oh, we shall be delighted,", "pos": 1331276}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Katya, it’s not good for you to stand,", "pos": 1332376}
{"speaker": "Tanya", "text": "Varenka’s waiting,", "pos": 1332962}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "I’m coming, I’m coming, Varvara Andreevna,", "pos": 1333184}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "And how sweet my Varenka is! eh? And how good-looking she is—such a refined beauty! Varenka! Shall you be in the mill copse? We’ll come out to you.", "pos": 1333355}
{"speaker": "The old princess", "text": "You certainly forget your condition, Kitty,", "pos": 1333680}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Varenka, I should be very happy if a certain something were to happen,", "pos": 1334301}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "And are you coming with us?", "pos": 1334407}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I am coming, but only as far as the threshing-floor, and there I shall stop.", "pos": 1334522}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Why, what do you want there?", "pos": 1334601}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I must go to have a look at the new wagons, and to check the invoice, and where will you be?", "pos": 1334644}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "On the terrace.", "pos": 1334753}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "I always buy my maids’ dresses myself, of some cheap material. Isn’t it time to skim it, my dear? There’s not the slightest need for you to do it, and it’s hot for you,", "pos": 1336185}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "I’ll do it. How they’ll enjoy this at tea-time! Stiva says it’s much better to give money.", "pos": 1336483}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Money’s out of the question! They appreciate a present.... Well, last year, for instance, I bought our Matrona Semyenovna, not a poplin, but something of that sort. I remember she was wearing it on your nameday. A charming pattern—so simple and refined,—I should have liked it myself, if she hadn’t had it. Something like Varenka’s. So pretty and inexpensive.", "pos": 1337097}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Well, now I think it’s done,", "pos": 1337535}
{"speaker": "Agafea Mihalovna", "text": "It’ll be just the same,", "pos": 1337740}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Ah! how sweet it is! don’t frighten it!", "pos": 1337777}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Yes, but you keep a little further from the stove,", "pos": 1337936}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "À propos de Varenka, you know, mamma, I somehow expect things to be settled today. You know what I mean. How splendid it would be!", "pos": 1338006}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "How carefully and cleverly she throws them together!...", "pos": 1338315}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "No; tell me, mamma, what do you think?", "pos": 1338373}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Why, what is one to think? He might at any time have been a match for anyone in Russia; now, of course, he’s not quite a young man, still I know ever so many girls would be glad to marry him even now.... She’s a very nice girl, but he might....", "pos": 1338414}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, no, mamma, do understand why, for him and for her too, nothing better could be imagined. In the first place, she’s charming!", "pos": 1338692}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "He thinks her very attractive, that’s certain,", "pos": 1338864}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Then he occupies such a position in society that he has no need to look for either fortune or position in his wife. All he needs is a good, sweet wife—a restful one.", "pos": 1338929}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Well, with her he would certainly be restful,", "pos": 1339097}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Thirdly, that she should love him. And so it is ... that is, it would be so splendid!... I look forward to seeing them coming out of the forest—and everything settled. I shall see at once by their eyes. I should be so delighted! What do you think, Dolly?", "pos": 1339161}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "But don’t excite yourself. It’s not at all the thing for you to be excited,", "pos": 1339418}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, I’m not excited, mamma. I fancy he will make her an offer today.", "pos": 1339513}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Ah, that’s so strange, how and when a man makes an offer!... There is a sort of barrier, and all at once it’s broken down,", "pos": 1339584}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Mamma, how did papa make you an offer?", "pos": 1339788}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "There was nothing out of the way, it was very simple,", "pos": 1339851}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Of course I did; he had come to stay with us in the country. But how was it settled between you, mamma?", "pos": 1340213}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "You imagine, I dare say, that you invented something quite new? It’s always just the same: it was settled by the eyes, by smiles....", "pos": 1340321}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "How nicely you said that, mamma! It’s just by the eyes, by smiles that it’s done,", "pos": 1340456}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "What words did he say? What did Kostya say to you?", "pos": 1340560}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "He wrote it in chalk. It was wonderful.... How long ago it seems!", "pos": 1340615}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "There’s one thing ... that old love affair of Varenka’s. I should have liked to say something to Sergey Ivanovitch, to prepare him. They’re all—all men, I mean, awfully jealous over our past.", "pos": 1340878}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Not all. You judge by your own husband. It makes him miserable even now to remember Vronsky. Eh? that’s true, isn’t it?", "pos": 1341150}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 1341286}
{"speaker": "the mother", "text": "But I really don’t know, what there was in your past that could worry him? That Vronsky paid you attentions—that happens to every girl.", "pos": 1341338}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, yes, but we didn’t mean that,", "pos": 1341545}
{"speaker": "the mother", "text": "No, let me speak, why, you yourself would not let me have a talk to Vronsky. Don’t you remember?", "pos": 1341612}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, mamma! I’m perfectly calm, maman.", "pos": 1341733}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "How happy it was for Kitty that Anna came then, and how unhappy for her. It turned out quite the opposite. Then Anna was so happy, and Kitty thought herself unhappy. Now it is just the opposite. I often think of her.", "pos": 1342096}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "A nice person to think about! Horrid, repulsive woman—no heart,", "pos": 1342366}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "What do you want to talk of it for? I never think about it, and I don’t want to think of it.... And I don’t want to think of it,", "pos": 1342517}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "What’s that you don’t want to think about? I’m sorry I’ve broken in on your feminine parliament. Well, how are you?", "pos": 1342768}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, very well, and how have things gone with you?", "pos": 1343443}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "The wagons held three times as much as the old carts did. Well, are we going for the children? I’ve ordered the horses to be put in.", "pos": 1343518}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "What! you want to take Kitty in the wagonette?", "pos": 1343653}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, at a walking pace, princess.", "pos": 1343733}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Come with us, maman,", "pos": 1344034}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "I don’t like to see such imprudence.", "pos": 1344069}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Well, I’ll walk then, I’m so well.", "pos": 1344108}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Well, Agafea Mihalovna, is the jam done?", "pos": 1344269}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Is it all right in the new way?", "pos": 1344381}
{"speaker": "Agafea Mihalovna", "text": "I suppose it’s all right. For our notions it’s boiled too long.", "pos": 1344415}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "It’ll be all the better, Agafea Mihalovna, it won’t mildew, even though our ice has begun to thaw already, so that we’ve no cool cellar to store it, but your pickle’s so good, that mamma says she never tasted any like it,", "pos": 1344481}
{"speaker": "Agafea Mihalovna", "text": "You needn’t try to console me, mistress. I need only to look at you with him, and I feel happy,", "pos": 1344913}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Come along with us to look for mushrooms, you will show us the best places.", "pos": 1345092}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Do it, please, by my receipt, put some paper over the jam, and moisten it with a little rum, and without even ice, it will never go mildewy.", "pos": 1345287}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "So you’re not tired? Lean more on me,", "pos": 1346565}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "No, I’m so glad of a chance of being alone with you, and I must own, though I’m happy with them, I do regret our winter evenings alone.", "pos": 1346614}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "That was good, but this is even better. Both are better,", "pos": 1346752}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Do you know what we were talking about when you came in?", "pos": 1346840}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "About jam?", "pos": 1346899}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, yes, about jam too; but afterwards, about how men make offers.", "pos": 1346912}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Ah!", "pos": 1346981}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "And about Sergey Ivanovitch and Varenka. You’ve noticed?... I’m very anxious for it. What do you think about it?", "pos": 1347214}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I don’t know what to think. Sergey seems very strange to me in that way. I told you, you know....", "pos": 1347374}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Yes, that he was in love with that girl who died....", "pos": 1347501}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "That was when I was a child; I know about it from hearsay and tradition. I remember him then. He was wonderfully sweet. But I’ve watched him since with women; he is friendly, some of them he likes, but one feels that to him they’re simply people, not women.", "pos": 1347556}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Yes, but now with Varenka ... I fancy there’s something....", "pos": 1347816}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Perhaps there is.... But one has to know him.... He’s a peculiar, wonderful person. He lives a spiritual life only. He’s too pure, too exalted a nature.", "pos": 1347878}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Why? Would this lower him, then?", "pos": 1348033}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, but he’s so used to a spiritual life that he can’t reconcile himself with actual fact, and Varenka is after all fact.", "pos": 1348068}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Yes, but there’s not so much of that actual fact about her as about me. I can see that he would never have cared for me. She is altogether spiritual.", "pos": 1348460}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, no, he is so fond of you, and I am always so glad when my people like you....", "pos": 1348612}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Yes, he’s very nice to me; but....", "pos": 1348696}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "It’s not as it was with poor Nikolay ... you really cared for each other. Why not speak of him? I sometimes blame myself for not; it ends in one’s forgetting. Ah, how terrible and dear he was!... Yes, what were we talking about?", "pos": 1348733}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "You think he can’t fall in love,", "pos": 1349021}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "It’s not so much that he can’t fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.... I’ve always envied him, and even now, when I’m so happy, I still envy him.", "pos": 1349103}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "You envy him for not being able to fall in love?", "pos": 1349290}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I envy him for being better than I. He does not live for himself. His whole life is subordinated to his duty. And that’s why he can be calm and contented.", "pos": 1349341}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "And you? And you? What are you dissatisfied with?", "pos": 1349512}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I am happy, but dissatisfied with myself....", "pos": 1350192}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Why, how can you be dissatisfied with yourself if you are happy?", "pos": 1350248}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, how shall I say?... In my heart I really care for nothing whatever but that you should not stumble—see? Oh, but really you mustn’t skip about like that! But when I think about myself, and compare myself with others, especially with my brother, I feel I’m a poor creature.", "pos": 1350315}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "But in what way? Don’t you too work for others? What about your co-operative settlement, and your work on the estate, and your book?...", "pos": 1350706}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, but I feel, and particularly just now—it’s your fault, that all that doesn’t count. I do it in a way halfheartedly. If I could care for all that as I care for you!... Instead of that, I do it in these days like a task that is set me.", "pos": 1350881}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Well, what would you say about papa? Is he a poor creature then, as he does nothing for the public good?", "pos": 1351150}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "He?—no! But then one must have the simplicity, the straightforwardness, the goodness of your father: and I haven’t got that. I do nothing, and I fret about it. It’s all your doing. Before there was you—and this too. I put all my energies into work; now I can’t, and I’m ashamed; I do it just as though it were a task set me, I’m pretending....", "pos": 1351272}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Well, but would you like to change this minute with Sergey Ivanovitch? Would you like to do this work for the general good, and to love the task set you, as he does, and nothing else?", "pos": 1351681}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Of course not. But I’m so happy that I don’t understand anything. So you think he’ll make her an offer today?", "pos": 1351881}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I think so, and I don’t think so. Only, I’m awfully anxious for it. Here, wait a minute. Come, count: he does propose, he doesn’t,", "pos": 1352039}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "He does, he doesn’t,", "pos": 1352276}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "No, no!", "pos": 1352341}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, but see, this little one shan’t count to make up. Here’s the wagonette overtaking us.", "pos": 1352465}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Aren’t you tired, Kitty?", "pos": 1352610}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Not in the least.", "pos": 1352658}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "If you are you can get in, as the horses are quiet and walking.", "pos": 1352678}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "Come here, little ones! There are so many! Well, did you find some?", "pos": 1359506}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Not one. Did you?", "pos": 1359871}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "That one too, near the twig. This brings back my childhood,", "pos": 1359984}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "So you found nothing? In the middle of the wood there are always fewer, though.", "pos": 1360800}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "I have heard that the white edible funguses are found principally at the edge of the wood, though I can’t tell them apart.", "pos": 1361187}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "What is the difference between the ‘birch’ mushroom and the ‘white’ mushroom?", "pos": 1362369}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "In the top part there is scarcely any difference, it’s in the stalk.", "pos": 1362503}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "The birch mushroom’s stalk suggests a dark man’s chin after two days without shaving,", "pos": 1362802}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "Yes, that’s true,", "pos": 1362941}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Gently, children, gently! Well?", "pos": 1363342}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "It doesn’t bite,", "pos": 1363793}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "How doesn’t bite?", "pos": 1363925}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I’ll show you. Like a kiss on a priest’s hand.", "pos": 1363945}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Which didn’t it bite with?", "pos": 1364105}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Both. But it should have been like this.... There are some peasants coming.... Oh, they didn’t see.", "pos": 1364153}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Mark my words, Alexander will not come. And I know why, he says that young people ought to be left alone for a while at first.", "pos": 1365069}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "But papa has left us alone. We’ve never seen him. Besides, we’re not young people!—we’re old, married people by now.", "pos": 1365387}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Only if he doesn’t come, I shall say good-bye to you children. How do you suppose he is feeling? Why, now....", "pos": 1365520}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "What is it, Agafea Mihalovna?", "pos": 1366237}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Well, that’s right, you go and arrange about it, and I’ll go and hear Grisha repeat his lesson, or else he will have nothing done all day.", "pos": 1366395}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "That’s my lesson! No, Dolly, I’m going.", "pos": 1366550}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, I’m going, Dolly, you sit still. We’ll do it all properly, like the book. Only when Stiva comes, and we go out shooting, then we shall have to miss it.", "pos": 1367769}
{"speaker": "Varenka", "text": "I’ll see to the supper, you sit still,", "pos": 1368112}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "What a nice girl!", "pos": 1368355}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Not nice, maman; she’s an exquisite girl; there’s no one else like her.", "pos": 1368394}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "So you are expecting Stepan Arkadyevitch today? It would be difficult to find two sons-in-law more unlike than yours. One all movement, only living in society, like a fish in water; the other our Kostya, lively, alert, quick in everything, but as soon as he is in society, he either sinks into apathy, or struggles helplessly like a fish on land.", "pos": 1368468}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Yes, he’s very heedless. I’ve been meaning, indeed, to ask you to tell him that it’s out of the question for her to stay here; that she positively must come to Moscow. He talks of getting a doctor down....", "pos": 1368939}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Maman, he’ll do everything; he has agreed to everything,", "pos": 1369222}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "It’s Stiva! We’ve finished, Dolly, don’t be afraid!", "pos": 1369669}
{"speaker": "Grisha", "text": "Is ea id, ejus, ejus, ejus!", "pos": 1369826}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "And someone else too! Papa, of course! Kitty, don’t come down the steep staircase, go round.", "pos": 1369899}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "A capital fellow, and a keen sportsman,", "pos": 1370437}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Your wife and I are cousins and very old friends,", "pos": 1371345}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, are there plenty of birds? We’ve come with the most savage intentions. Why, maman, they’ve not been in Moscow since! Look, Tanya, here’s something for you! Get it, please, it’s in the carriage, behind! How pretty you’ve grown, Dolly,", "pos": 1371472}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Please, do let’s go,", "pos": 1374393}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "I’ve never been tired yet. Suppose we stay up all night. Let’s go for a walk! Let’s go for a walk!", "pos": 1374925}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Oh, we all know you can do without sleep, and keep other people up too. But to my thinking, it’s time for bed now.... I’m going, I don’t want supper.", "pos": 1375078}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "No, do stay a little, Dolly. I’ve so much still to tell you. Nothing really, I suppose. Do you know Veslovsky has been at Anna’s, and he’s going to them again? You know they’re hardly fifty miles from you, and I too must certainly go over there. Veslovsky, come here!", "pos": 1375352}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Ah, do tell me, please; you have stayed with her? How was she? It’s exceedingly nice at their place. I can’t, of course, take it upon myself to judge, but in their house you feel the real feeling of home. I believe they think of going to Moscow.", "pos": 1375790}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "How jolly it would be for us all to go over to them together! When are you going there?", "pos": 1376602}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "I’m spending July there.", "pos": 1376728}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Will you go?", "pos": 1376755}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "I’ve been wanting to a long while; I shall certainly go. I am sorry for her, and I know her. She’s a splendid woman. I will go alone, when you go back, and then I shall be in no one’s way. And it will be better indeed without you.", "pos": 1376808}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "To be sure,", "pos": 1377055}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I? Why should I go?", "pos": 1377112}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Do you know Anna Arkadyevna, then? She’s a very fascinating woman.", "pos": 1377203}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Yes. Are you going shooting, then, tomorrow?", "pos": 1377295}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, I’m going,", "pos": 1377919}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "No, better spend the day here tomorrow, or Dolly won’t see anything of her husband, and set off the day after,", "pos": 1378001}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, if you wish, we’ll stay here tomorrow,", "pos": 1378308}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Tomorrow, then? Do, please, let us go,", "pos": 1378738}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "We don’t like that fashion.", "pos": 1379599}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Why, how can one want to go to bed! Look, Kitty, how exquisite! Veslovsky, this is the time for a serenade. You know, he has a splendid voice; we practiced songs together along the road. He has brought some lovely songs with him, two new ones. Varvara Andreevna and he must sing some duets.", "pos": 1379783}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Was there perhaps something you disliked about Veslovsky?", "pos": 1380663}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "You must understand that I’m not jealous, that’s a nasty word. I can’t be jealous, and believe that.... I can’t say what I feel, but this is awful.... I’m not jealous, but I’m wounded, humiliated that anybody dare think, that anybody dare look at you with eyes like that.", "pos": 1381235}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Eyes like what? And what can there possibly be attractive about me as I am now?...", "pos": 1381509}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Ah! you shouldn’t say that!... If you had been attractive then....", "pos": 1382034}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, no, Kostya, oh, wait a minute, oh, do listen! Why, what can you be thinking about! When for me there’s no one in the world, no one, no one!... Would you like me never to see anyone?", "pos": 1382138}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "You must understand the horror and comedy of my position, that he’s in my house, that he’s done nothing improper positively except his free and easy airs and the way he sits on his legs. He thinks it’s the best possible form, and so I’m obliged to be civil to him.", "pos": 1382702}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "But, Kostya, you’re exaggerating,", "pos": 1383006}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "The most awful part of it all is that you’re just as you always are, and especially now when to me you’re something sacred, and we’re so happy, so particularly happy—and all of a sudden a little wretch.... He’s not a little wretch; why should I abuse him? I have nothing to do with him. But why should my, and your, happiness....", "pos": 1383152}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Do you know, I understand now what it’s all come from,", "pos": 1383484}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, what? what?", "pos": 1383562}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I saw how you looked while we were talking at supper.", "pos": 1383582}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, well! Katya, I’ve been worrying you! Darling, forgive me! It’s madness! Katya, I’m a criminal. And how could you be so distressed at such idiocy?", "pos": 1383638}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, I was sorry for you.", "pos": 1384031}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "For me? for me? How mad I am!... But why make you miserable? It’s awful to think that any outsider can shatter our happiness.", "pos": 1384058}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "It’s humiliating too, of course.", "pos": 1384186}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, then I’ll keep him here all the summer, and will overwhelm him with civility. You shall see. Tomorrow.... Oh, yes, we are going tomorrow.", "pos": 1384221}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Good dog, good dog, Krak!", "pos": 1385554}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Well, and what about our host?", "pos": 1386344}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "A young wife,", "pos": 1386387}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Yes, and such a charming one!", "pos": 1386438}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "He came down dressed. No doubt he’s run up to her again.", "pos": 1386470}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Pardon, gentlemen! Have you put the lunch in? Why is the chestnut on the right? Well, it doesn’t matter. Laska, down; go and lie down! Put it with the herd of oxen. Excuse me, here comes another villain. You didn’t come to the counting house yesterday, and now you’re detaining me. Well, what is it?", "pos": 1387464}
{"speaker": "Carpenter", "text": "Would your honor let me make another turning? It’s only three steps to add. And we make it just fit at the same time. It will be much more convenient.", "pos": 1388043}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "You should have listened to me. I said: Put the lines and then fit in the steps. Now there’s no setting it right. Do as I told you, and make a new staircase.", "pos": 1388196}
{"speaker": "Carpenter", "text": "It will be much better.", "pos": 1388684}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But where’s your staircase coming out with its three steps?", "pos": 1388710}
{"speaker": "Carpenter", "text": "Why, upon my word, sir. It comes out right at the very spot. It starts, so to speak, it comes down, and comes down, and comes out.", "pos": 1388772}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But three steps will add to the length too ... where is it to come out?", "pos": 1388991}
{"speaker": "Carpenter", "text": "Why, to be sure, it’ll start from the bottom and go up and go up, and come out so,", "pos": 1389065}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "It’ll reach the ceiling and the wall.", "pos": 1389199}
{"speaker": "Carpenter", "text": "Upon my word! Why, it’ll go up, and up, and come out like this.", "pos": 1389239}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "There, do you see?", "pos": 1389380}
{"speaker": "Carpenter", "text": "As your honor likes. It seems it’ll be best to make a new one.", "pos": 1389401}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, then, do it as you’re told. Down! Hold the dogs, Philip!", "pos": 1389564}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "How fine it must be galloping over the steppes on a steppe horse! Eh? isn’t it?", "pos": 1391337}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Do you know what, Levin, I’ll gallop home on that left trace-horse. That will be splendid. Eh?", "pos": 1392158}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, why should you?", "pos": 1392286}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, now what’s our plan of campaign? Tell us all about it. Our plan is this. Now we’re driving to Gvozdyov. In Gvozdyov there’s a grouse marsh on this side, and beyond Gvozdyov come some magnificent snipe marshes where there are grouse too. It’s hot now, and we’ll get there—it’s fifteen miles or so—towards evening and have some evening shooting; we’ll spend the night there and go on tomorrow to the bigger moors. And is there nothing on the way?", "pos": 1392519}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes; but we’ll reserve ourselves; besides it’s hot. There are two nice little places, but I doubt there being anything to shoot.", "pos": 1393002}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Shan’t we try that?", "pos": 1393595}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Levin, do, please! how delightful!", "pos": 1393656}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Krak! Laska!... No! Come along, Levin, let’s go together! Really, there’s not room. Laska, back, Laska! You won’t want another dog, will you? Come, you see now that it was not that I grudged the marsh, only it’s wasting time.", "pos": 1393842}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Oh, no, it was jolly all the same. Did you see us? How splendidly I shot this bird! Didn’t I? Well, shall we soon be getting to the real place?", "pos": 1394548}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Now you go and I’ll stay with the horses,", "pos": 1396252}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Why don’t you stop her?", "pos": 1396613}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "She won’t scare them. Come, come, Stiva!", "pos": 1396668}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Fetch it!", "pos": 1397732}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Damn the fellow! What did you drive in for?", "pos": 1398315}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Bon appétit—bonne conscience! Ce poulet va tomber jusqu’au fond de mes bottes. Well, now our troubles are over, now everything’s going to go well. Only, to atone for my sins, I’m bound to sit on the box. That’s so? eh? No, no! I’ll be your Automedon. You shall see how I’ll get you along. No, I must atone for my sins, and I’m very comfortable on the box.", "pos": 1399447}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "How shall we go? It’s a splendid marsh, I see, and there are hawks. Where there are hawks, there is sure to be game.", "pos": 1400939}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Now, gentlemen, do you see those reeds? The marsh begins here, straight in front of us, do you see—where it is greener? From here it runs to the right where the horses are; there are breeding places there, and grouse, and all round those reeds as far as that alder, and right up to the mill. Over there, do you see, where the pools are? That’s the best place. There I once shot seventeen snipe. We’ll separate with the dogs and go in different directions, and then meet over there at the mill.", "pos": 1401139}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, which shall go to left and which to right? It’s wider to the right; you two go that way and I’ll take the left,", "pos": 1401863}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Capital! we’ll make the bigger bag! Yes, come along, come along!", "pos": 1402048}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Veslovsky, beside me, walk beside me!", "pos": 1402419}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Oh, I won’t get in your way, don’t trouble about me.", "pos": 1402664}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Bang! bang!", "pos": 1403120}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, now let us separate,", "pos": 1404256}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Krak, Krak, apporte!", "pos": 1405727}
{"speaker": "Peasant", "text": "Hi, sportsmen! come and have some lunch with us! Have a drop of wine! Come along, it’s all right!", "pos": 1406657}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Qu’est-ce qu’ils disent?", "pos": 1407011}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "They invite you to have some vodka. Most likely they’ve been dividing the meadow into lots. I should have some,", "pos": 1407055}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Why do they offer it?", "pos": 1407280}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, they’re merry-making. Really, you should join them. You would be interested.", "pos": 1407304}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Allons, c’est curieux.", "pos": 1407387}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "You go, you go, you’ll find the way to the mill!", "pos": 1407412}
{"speaker": "Peasant", "text": "You come too! Never fear! You taste our cake!", "pos": 1407671}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Fetch it!", "pos": 1408150}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, I must control myself,", "pos": 1409403}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well? You have been popping away!", "pos": 1410535}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "How have you got on?", "pos": 1410604}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Oh, pretty fair. A splendid marsh! I’ve no doubt Veslovsky got in your way. It’s awkward too, shooting with one dog,", "pos": 1410715}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "I’ve only just come. Ils ont été charmants. Just fancy, they gave me drink, fed me! Such bread, it was exquisite! Délicieux! And the vodka, I never tasted any better. And they would not take a penny for anything. And they kept saying: ‘Excuse our homely ways.’", "pos": 1411305}
{"speaker": "Soldier", "text": "What should they take anything for? They were entertaining you, to be sure. Do you suppose they keep vodka for sale?", "pos": 1411568}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I don’t understand you, how is it such people don’t disgust you? I can understand a lunch with Lafitte is all very pleasant, but don’t you dislike just that very sumptuousness? All these people, just like our spirit monopolists in old days, get their money in a way that gains them the contempt of everyone. They don’t care for their contempt, and then they use their dishonest gains to buy off the contempt they have deserved.", "pos": 1413253}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Perfectly true! Perfectly! Oblonsky, of course, goes out of bonhomie, but other people say: ‘Well, Oblonsky stays with them.’...", "pos": 1413720}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Not a bit of it. I simply don’t consider him more dishonest than any other wealthy merchant or nobleman. They’ve all made their money alike—by their work and their intelligence.", "pos": 1413883}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, by what work? Do you call it work to get hold of concessions and speculate with them?", "pos": 1414121}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Of course it’s work. Work in this sense, that if it were not for him and others like him, there would have been no railways.", "pos": 1414213}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But that’s not work, like the work of a peasant or a learned profession.", "pos": 1414340}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Granted, but it’s work in the sense that his activity produces a result—the railways. But of course you think the railways useless.", "pos": 1414415}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, that’s another question; I am prepared to admit that they’re useful. But all profit that is out of proportion to the labor expended is dishonest.", "pos": 1414549}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "But who is to define what is proportionate?", "pos": 1414701}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Making profit by dishonest means, by trickery. Such as banking, for instance. It’s an evil—the amassing of huge fortunes without labor, just the same thing as with the spirit monopolies, it’s only the form that’s changed. Le roi est mort, vive le roi. No sooner were the spirit monopolies abolished than the railways came up, and banking companies; that, too, is profit without work.", "pos": 1414747}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, that may all be very true and clever.... Lie down, Krak! But you have not drawn the line between honest and dishonest work. That I receive a bigger salary than my chief clerk, though he knows more about the work than I do—that’s dishonest, I suppose?", "pos": 1415242}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I can’t say.", "pos": 1415695}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, but I can tell you: your receiving some five thousand, let’s say, for your work on the land, while our host, the peasant here, however hard he works, can never get more than fifty roubles, is just as dishonest as my earning more than my chief clerk, and Malthus getting more than a station-master. No, quite the contrary; I see that society takes up a sort of antagonistic attitude to these people, which is utterly baseless, and I fancy there’s envy at the bottom of it....", "pos": 1415710}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "No, that’s unfair how could envy come in? There is something not nice about that sort of business.", "pos": 1416193}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "You say, that it’s unjust for me to receive five thousand, while the peasant has fifty; that’s true. It is unfair, and I feel it, but....", "pos": 1416313}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "It really is. Why is it we spend our time riding, drinking, shooting, doing nothing, while they are forever at work?", "pos": 1416470}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, you feel it, but you don’t give him your property,", "pos": 1416739}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I don’t give it away, because no one demands that from me, and if I wanted to, I could not give it away, and have no one to give it to.", "pos": 1417185}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Give it to this peasant, he would not refuse it.", "pos": 1417341}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, but how am I to give it up? Am I to go to him and make a deed of conveyance?", "pos": 1417392}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "I don’t know; but if you are convinced that you have no right....", "pos": 1417476}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I’m not at all convinced. On the contrary, I feel I have no right to give it up, that I have duties both to the land and to my family.", "pos": 1417544}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "No, excuse me, but if you consider this inequality is unjust, why is it you don’t act accordingly?...", "pos": 1417681}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, I do act negatively on that idea, so far as not trying to increase the difference of position existing between him and me.", "pos": 1417785}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "No, excuse me, that’s a paradox.", "pos": 1417916}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Yes, there’s something of a sophistry about that. Ah! our host; so you’re not asleep yet? How is it you’re not asleep?", "pos": 1417951}
{"speaker": "Peasant", "text": "No, how’s one to sleep! I thought our gentlemen would be asleep, but I heard them chattering. I want to get a hook from here. She won’t bite? And where are you going to sleep? We are going out for the night with the beasts.", "pos": 1418168}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Ah, what a night! But listen, there are women’s voices singing, and, on my word, not badly too. Who’s that singing, my friend?", "pos": 1418448}
{"speaker": "Peasant", "text": "That’s the maids from hard by here.", "pos": 1418756}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Let’s go, let’s have a walk! We shan’t go to sleep, you know. Oblonsky, come along!", "pos": 1418794}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "If one could only do both, lie here and go. It’s capital lying here.", "pos": 1418880}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Well, I shall go by myself. Good-bye, gentlemen. If it’s fun, I’ll fetch you. You’ve treated me to some good sport, and I won’t forget you.", "pos": 1418984}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "He really is a capital fellow, isn’t he?", "pos": 1419204}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, capital,", "pos": 1419348}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "It’s just this, my dear boy. One must do one of two things: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for one’s rights in it; or acknowledge that you are enjoying unjust privileges, as I do, and then enjoy them and be satisfied.", "pos": 1419700}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, if it were unjust, you could not enjoy these advantages and be satisfied—at least I could not. The great thing for me is to feel that I’m not to blame.", "pos": 1419964}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "What do you say, why not go after all? We shan’t go to sleep, you know. Come, let’s go!", "pos": 1420122}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "How strong the smell of the fresh hay is, though,", "pos": 1420496}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "There’s not a chance of sleeping. Vassenka has been getting up some fun there. Do you hear the laughing and his voice? Hadn’t we better go? Come along!", "pos": 1420586}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, I’m not coming,", "pos": 1420740}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Surely that’s not a matter of principle too,", "pos": 1420778}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "It’s not a matter of principle, but why should I go?", "pos": 1420902}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "But do you know you are preparing trouble for yourself. Do you suppose I don’t see the line you’ve taken up with your wife? I heard how it’s a question of the greatest consequence, whether or not you’re to be away for a couple of days’ shooting. That’s all very well as an idyllic episode, but for your whole life that won’t answer. A man must be independent; he has his masculine interests. A man has to be manly,", "pos": 1420957}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "In what way? To go running after servant girls?", "pos": 1421477}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Why not, if it amuses him? Ça ne tire pas à conséquence. It won’t do my wife any harm, and it’ll amuse me. The great thing is to respect the sanctity of the home. There should be nothing in the home. But don’t tie your own hands.", "pos": 1421539}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Perhaps so. Tomorrow, early, I want to go shooting, and I won’t wake anyone, and shall set off at daybreak.", "pos": 1421771}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Messieurs, venez vite! Charmante! I’ve made such a discovery. Charmante! a perfect Gretchen, and I’ve already made friends with her. Really, exceedingly pretty,", "pos": 1421928}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Why are you up so early, my dear?", "pos": 1425108}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Going shooting, granny. Do I go this way to the marsh?", "pos": 1425254}
{"speaker": "Old woman", "text": "Straight out at the back; by our threshing floor, my dear, and hemp patches; there’s a little footpath. Straight on and you’ll come to the marsh. Our lads drove the cattle there yesterday evening.", "pos": 1425311}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Laska! here?", "pos": 1428901}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Fetch it, fetch it!", "pos": 1431274}
{"speaker": "Laska", "text": "But I can’t go. Where am I to go? From here I feel them, but if I move forward I shall know nothing of where they are or who they are.", "pos": 1431345}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Fetch it, Laska.", "pos": 1431569}
{"speaker": "Laska", "text": "Well, if that’s what he wishes, I’ll do it, but I can’t answer for myself now,", "pos": 1431588}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Come, this is going to be some good! Eh, Laska, will it be good?", "pos": 1432324}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Uncle, there were ducks here yesterday!", "pos": 1433327}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Wait a bit, wait a bit, I know there are nineteen,", "pos": 1434010}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I am perfectly well and happy. If you were uneasy about me, you can feel easier than ever. I’ve a new bodyguard, Marya Vlasyevna. She has come to have a look at me. She found me perfectly well, and we have kept her till you are back. All are happy and well, and please, don’t be in a hurry to come back, but, if the sport is good, stay another day.", "pos": 1434423}
{"speaker": "coachman", "text": "Overdriven yesterday, Konstantin Dmitrievitch. Yes, indeed! driven ten miles with no sense!", "pos": 1435163}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, this fellow’s appetite! I never suffer from loss of appetite, but he’s really marvelous!...", "pos": 1435836}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, it can’t be helped. Well, Philip, give me some beef, then.", "pos": 1436009}
{"speaker": "Philip", "text": "The beef’s been eaten, and the bones given to the dogs,", "pos": 1436121}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "You might have left me something! Then put away the game, and cover them with some nettles. And you might at least ask for some milk for me.", "pos": 1436251}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Excuse our homely ways,", "pos": 1436967}
{"speaker": "Peasant", "text": "Well, mind you don’t run after other men’s wives—you’d better get one of your own.", "pos": 1437160}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Altogether, I’ve enjoyed our outing awfully. And you, Levin?", "pos": 1437292}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I have, very much,", "pos": 1437355}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Entrez! Excuse me, I’ve only just finished my ablutions,", "pos": 1437727}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Don’t mind me, please. Have you slept well?", "pos": 1437877}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Like the dead. What sort of day is it for shooting?", "pos": 1437955}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "What will you take, tea or coffee?", "pos": 1438009}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Neither. I’ll wait till lunch. I’m really ashamed. I suppose the ladies are down? A walk now would be capital. You show me your horses. We had splendid shooting, and so many delightful experiences! What a pity ladies are cut off from these delights!", "pos": 1438046}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I know nothing about it, princess. Do as you think fit,", "pos": 1440265}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "You must decide when you will move.", "pos": 1440332}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I really don’t know. I know millions of children are born away from Moscow, and doctors ... why....", "pos": 1440370}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "But if so....", "pos": 1440472}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, no, as Kitty wishes.", "pos": 1440488}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "We can’t talk to Kitty about it! Do you want me to frighten her? Why, this spring Natalia Golitzina died from having an ignorant doctor.", "pos": 1440515}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I will do just what you say,", "pos": 1440654}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "You do just as you think best, princess,", "pos": 1441523}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Heavy is the cap of Monomach. How late you are today, Dolly!", "pos": 1441596}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "I’ve been worried about Masha. She did not sleep well, and is dreadfully tiresome today,", "pos": 1442059}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "What do you say, shall we go and look for mushrooms today?", "pos": 1443120}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "By all means, please, and I shall come too. Where are you going, Kostya?", "pos": 1443193}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "The mechanician came when I was away; I haven’t seen him yet. What do you want? We are busy.", "pos": 1443520}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I beg your pardon. I want a few words with my husband.", "pos": 1443809}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Don’t disturb yourself.", "pos": 1443964}
{"speaker": "German mechanician", "text": "The train is at three? I mustn’t be late.", "pos": 1443990}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, what have you to say to me?", "pos": 1444120}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I ... I want to say that we can’t go on like this; that this is misery....", "pos": 1444322}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "The servants are here at the sideboard, don’t make a scene.", "pos": 1444409}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Well, let’s go in here! Well, come into the garden. We can’t go on like this! It’s misery! I am wretched; you are wretched. What for?", "pos": 1444490}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But tell me one thing: was there in his tone anything unseemly, not nice, humiliatingly horrible?", "pos": 1445244}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Yes, but, Kostya, surely you see I’m not to blame? All the morning I’ve been trying to take a tone ... but such people.... Why did he come? How happy we were!", "pos": 1445477}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "And you shall stand all day in the corner, and have your dinner all alone, and not see one of your dolls, and I won’t make you a new frock. Oh, she is a disgusting child! Where does she get such wicked propensities?", "pos": 1446250}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Why, what has she done?", "pos": 1446534}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Grisha and she went into the raspberries, and there ... I can’t tell you really what she did. It’s a thousand pities Miss Elliot’s not with us. This one sees to nothing—she’s a machine.... Figurez-vous que la petite?...", "pos": 1446689}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "That proves nothing; it’s not a question of evil propensities at all, it’s simply mischief,", "pos": 1446959}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "But you are upset about something? What have you come for? What’s going on there?", "pos": 1447072}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I’ve not been in there, I’ve been alone in the garden with Kitty. We’ve had a quarrel for the second time since ... Stiva came.", "pos": 1447278}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Come, tell me, honor bright, has there been ... not in Kitty, but in that gentleman’s behavior, a tone which might be unpleasant—not unpleasant, but horrible, offensive to a husband? You mean, how shall I say.... Stay, stay in the corner! The opinion of the world would be that he is behaving as young men do behave. Il fait la cour à une jeune et jolie femme, and a husband who’s a man of the world should only be flattered by it.", "pos": 1447465}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, yes, but you noticed it?", "pos": 1447997}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Not only I, but Stiva noticed it. Just after breakfast he said to me in so many words, Je crois que Veslovsky fait un petit brin de cour à Kitty.", "pos": 1448052}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, that’s all right then; now I’m satisfied. I’ll send him away,", "pos": 1448200}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "What do you mean! Are you crazy? nonsense, Kostya, only think! You can go now to Fanny. No, if you wish it, I’ll speak to Stiva. He’ll take him away. He can say you’re expecting visitors. Altogether he doesn’t fit into the house.", "pos": 1448282}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, no, I’ll do it myself.", "pos": 1448581}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "But you’ll quarrel with him?", "pos": 1448610}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Not a bit. I shall so enjoy it. Come, forgive her, Dolly, she won’t do it again,", "pos": 1448641}
{"speaker": "footman", "text": "The spring was broken yesterday,", "pos": 1449302}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, the covered trap, then, and make haste. Where’s the visitor?", "pos": 1449355}
{"speaker": "footman", "text": "The gentleman’s gone to his room.", "pos": 1449424}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "You ride in gaiters?", "pos": 1449901}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Yes, it’s much cleaner,", "pos": 1449924}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I wanted.... I have ordered the horses to be put-to for you.", "pos": 1450441}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "How so? To drive where?", "pos": 1450628}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "For you to drive to the station,", "pos": 1450684}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Are you going away, or has something happened?", "pos": 1450740}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "It happens that I expect visitors. And I’m not expecting visitors, and nothing has happened, but I beg you to go away. You can explain my rudeness as you like.", "pos": 1450789}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "I beg you to explain....", "pos": 1451074}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I can’t explain, and you’d better not ask.", "pos": 1451146}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Can I not see Oblonsky?", "pos": 1451693}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I’ll send him to you at once.", "pos": 1451816}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "What madness is this? Mais c’est ridicule! What fly has stung you? Mais c’est du dernier ridicule! What did you think, if a young man....", "pos": 1451848}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Please don’t go into it! I can’t help it. I feel ashamed of how I’m treating you and him. But it won’t be, I imagine, a great grief to him to go, and his presence was distasteful to me and to my wife.", "pos": 1452369}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "But it’s insulting to him! Et puis c’est ridicule.", "pos": 1452572}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "And to me it’s both insulting and distressing! And I’m not at fault in any way, and there’s no need for me to suffer.", "pos": 1452625}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, this I didn’t expect of you! On peut être jaloux, mais à ce point, c’est du dernier ridicule!", "pos": 1452745}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "If only you’d ordered out the carriage! But no! and then I hear: ‘Stop!’ Oh, I thought they’ve relented. I look out, and behold a fat German being sat down by him and driving away.... And my new shoes all for nothing!...", "pos": 1454660}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "What makes you suppose that I dislike your going? But, even if I did dislike it, I should still more dislike your not taking my horses. You never told me that you were going for certain. Hiring horses in the village is disagreeable to me, and, what’s of more importance, they’ll undertake the job and never get you there. I have horses. And if you don’t want to wound me, you’ll take mine.", "pos": 1455443}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "If only Masha does not begin her naughty tricks, if Grisha isn’t kicked by a horse, and Lily’s stomach isn’t upset again! The girls are all right, but the boys? It’s very well that I’m teaching Grisha, but of course that’s only because I am free myself now, I’m not with child. Stiva, of course, there’s no counting on. And with the help of good-natured friends I can bring them up; but if there’s another baby coming?... The birth itself, that’s nothing; but the months of carrying the child—that’s what’s so intolerable,", "pos": 1457818}
{"speaker": "Young Woman", "text": "I had a girl baby, but God set me free; I buried her last Lent.", "pos": 1459123}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Well, did you grieve very much for her?", "pos": 1459189}
{"speaker": "Young Woman", "text": "Why grieve? The old man has grandchildren enough as it is. It was only a trouble. No working, nor nothing. Only a tie.", "pos": 1459257}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Yes, altogether, pregnancy, sickness, mental incapacity, indifference to everything, and most of all—hideousness. Kitty, young and pretty as she is, even Kitty has lost her looks; and I when I’m with child become hideous, I know it. The birth, the agony, the hideous agonies, that last moment ... then the nursing, the sleepless nights, the fearful pains.... Then the children’s illnesses, that everlasting apprehension; then bringing them up; evil propensities education, Latin—it’s all so incomprehensible and difficult. And on the top of it all, the death of these children. And all this, what’s it for? What is to come of it all? That I’m wasting my life, never having a moment’s peace, either with child, or nursing a child, forever irritable, peevish, wretched myself and worrying others, repulsive to my husband, while the children are growing up unhappy, badly educated, and penniless. Even now, if it weren’t for spending the summer at the Levins’, I don’t know how we should be managing to live. Of course Kostya and Kitty have so much tact that we don’t feel it; but it can’t go on. They’ll have children, they won’t be able to keep us; it’s a drag on them as it is. How is papa, who has hardly anything left for himself, to help us? So that I can’t even bring the children up by myself, and may find it hard with the help of other people, at the cost of humiliation. Why, even if we suppose the greatest good luck, that the children don’t die, and I bring them up somehow. At the very best they’ll simply be decent people. That’s all I can hope for. And to gain simply that—what agonies, what toil!... One’s whole life ruined! Is it far now, Mihail?", "pos": 1459608}
{"speaker": "counting-house clerk", "text": "From this village, they say, it’s five miles.", "pos": 1462379}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "They’re all living, they’re all enjoying life, while I, let out, as it were from prison, from the world of worries that fret me to death, am only looking about me now for an instant. They all live; those peasant women and my sister Natalia and Varenka and Anna, whom I am going to see—all, but not I. And they attack Anna. What for? am I any better? I have, anyway, a husband I love—not as I should like to love him, still I do love him, while Anna never loved hers. How is she to blame? She wants to live. God has put that in our hearts. Very likely I should have done the same. Even to this day I don’t feel sure I did right in listening to her at that terrible time when she came to me in Moscow. I ought then to have cast off my husband and have begun my life fresh. I might have loved and have been loved in reality. And is it any better as it is? I don’t respect him. He’s necessary to me, and I put up with him. Is that any better? At that time I could still have been admired, I had beauty left me still,", "pos": 1462812}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Anna did quite right, and certainly I shall never reproach her for it. She is happy, she makes another person happy, and she’s not broken down as I am, but most likely just as she always was, bright, clever, open to every impression,", "pos": 1464942}
{"speaker": "counting-house clerk", "text": "Well, you are slow! Come along, do!", "pos": 1466292}
{"speaker": "Peasant", "text": "Vozdvizhenskoe, the manor house? the count’s? go on to the end of this track. Then turn to the left. Straight along the avenue and you’ll come right upon it. But whom do you want? The count himself?", "pos": 1466676}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Well, are they at home, my good man?", "pos": 1466892}
{"speaker": "Peasant", "text": "At home for sure. Sure to be at home. Only yesterday visitors arrived. There’s a sight of visitors come. What do you want? Oh! They all rode by here not long since, to look at a reaping machine. They’ll be home by now. And who will you be belonging to?...", "pos": 1467021}
{"speaker": "coachman", "text": "We’ve come a long way. So it’s not far?", "pos": 1467535}
{"speaker": "Peasant", "text": "I tell you, it’s just here. As soon as you get out....", "pos": 1467621}
{"speaker": "Young Fellow", "text": "What, is it laborers they want for the harvest?", "pos": 1467793}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I don’t know, my boy.", "pos": 1467853}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "So you keep to the left, and you’ll come right on it,", "pos": 1467877}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Stop! Hi, friend! Stop!", "pos": 1468112}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They’re coming! They’re yonder!", "pos": 1468183}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "See what a turn-out!", "pos": 1468238}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I thought it was you and dared not think it. How delightful! You can’t fancy how glad I am! Here’s a delightful surprise, Alexey!", "pos": 1470421}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "You wouldn’t believe how glad we are to see you,", "pos": 1470835}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "That’s Princess Varvara,", "pos": 1471124}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Ah!", "pos": 1471233}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And I’ll get into this vehicle,", "pos": 1472090}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The horse is quiet, and the princess drives capitally.", "pos": 1472133}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "No, stay as you were,", "pos": 1472190}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "You are looking at me, and wondering how I can be happy in my position? Well! it’s shameful to confess, but I ... I’m inexcusably happy. Something magical has happened to me, like a dream, when you’re frightened, panic-stricken, and all of a sudden you wake up and all the horrors are no more. I have waked up. I have lived through the misery, the dread, and now for a long while past, especially since we’ve been here, I’ve been so happy!...", "pos": 1475419}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "How glad I am! I’m very glad for you. Why haven’t you written to me?", "pos": 1475934}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Why?... Because I hadn’t the courage.... You forget my position....", "pos": 1476082}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "To me? Hadn’t the courage? If you knew how I ... I look at.... I consider.... I don’t think anything, but I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be....", "pos": 1476152}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "If you had any sins, they would all be forgiven you for your coming to see me and these words.", "pos": 1477632}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Well, what are these buildings? How many there are of them!", "pos": 1477821}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "These are the servants’ houses, barns, and stables. And there the park begins. It had all gone to ruin, but Alexey had everything renewed. He is very fond of this place, and, what I never expected, he has become intensely interested in looking after it. But his is such a rich nature! Whatever he takes up, he does splendidly. So far from being bored by it, he works with passionate interest. He—with his temperament as I know it—he has become careful and businesslike, a first-rate manager, he positively reckons every penny in his management of the land. But only in that. When it’s a question of tens of thousands, he doesn’t think of money. Do you see that big building? that’s the new hospital. I believe it will cost over a hundred thousand; that’s his hobby just now. And do you know how it all came about? The peasants asked him for some meadowland, I think it was, at a cheaper rate, and he refused, and I accused him of being miserly. Of course it was not really because of that, but everything together, he began this hospital to prove, do you see, that he was not miserly about money. C’est une petitesse, if you like, but I love him all the more for it. And now you’ll see the house in a moment. It was his grandfather’s house, and he has had nothing changed outside.", "pos": 1477935}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "How beautiful!", "pos": 1479374}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Isn’t it fine? And from the house, from the top, the view is wonderful. Ah, they’re here already! It is a nice horse, isn’t it? It’s my cob; my favorite. Lead him here and bring me some sugar. Where is the count?", "pos": 1479555}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Where are you going to put the princess?", "pos": 1480197}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Et vous oubliez votre devoir,", "pos": 1480608}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Pardon, j’en ai tout plein les poches,", "pos": 1480694}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Mais vous venez trop tard. You can stay some time? For one day only? That’s impossible!", "pos": 1480802}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "I promised to be back, and the children....", "pos": 1481014}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "No, Dolly, darling!... Well, we’ll see. Come along, come along! Well, darling, how happy I am! Tell me about all of you. Stiva I had only a glimpse of, and he cannot tell one about the children. How is my favorite, Tanya? Quite a big girl, I expect?", "pos": 1481206}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Yes, she’s very tall. We are having a delightful stay at the Levins’,", "pos": 1481856}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh, if I had known, that you do not despise me!... You might have all come to us. Stiva’s an old friend and a great friend of Alexey’s, you know,", "pos": 1482050}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Yes, but we are all....", "pos": 1482248}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "But in my delight I’m talking nonsense. The one thing, darling, is that I am so glad to have you! You haven’t told me yet how and what you think about me, and I keep wanting to know. But I’m glad you will see me as I am. The chief thing I shouldn’t like would be for people to imagine I want to prove anything. I don’t want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven’t I? But it is a big subject, and we’ll talk over everything properly later. Now I’ll go and dress and send a maid to you.", "pos": 1482303}
{"speaker": "Annushka", "text": "I grew up with Anna Arkadyevna; my lady’s dearer to me than anything. Well, it’s not for us to judge. And, to be sure, there seems so much love....", "pos": 1485009}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Kindly pour out the water for me to wash now, please,", "pos": 1485159}
{"speaker": "Annushka", "text": "Certainly. We’ve two women kept specially for washing small things, but most of the linen’s done by machinery. The count goes into everything himself. Ah, what a husband!...", "pos": 1485249}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "An old friend,", "pos": 1485681}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Well, Anna, and how is your little girl?", "pos": 1486041}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Annie? Very well. She has got on wonderfully. Would you like to see her? Come, I’ll show her to you. We had a terrible bother, over nurses. We had an Italian wet-nurse. A good creature, but so stupid! We wanted to get rid of her, but the baby is so used to her that we’ve gone on keeping her still.", "pos": 1486097}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "But how have you managed?... How did you manage? have you weaned her yet?", "pos": 1486478}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "You didn’t mean to ask that? You meant to ask about her surname. Yes? That worries Alexey. She has no name—that is, she’s a Karenina. But we’ll talk about all that later. Come, I’ll show you her. Elle est très gentille. She crawls now.", "pos": 1486739}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I sometimes feel sorry I’m so superfluous here. It was very different with my first child.", "pos": 1489933}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "I expected it to be the other way,", "pos": 1490144}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh, no! By the way, do you know I saw Seryozha? But we’ll talk about that later. You wouldn’t believe it, I’m like a hungry beggar woman when a full dinner is set before her, and she does not know what to begin on first. The dinner is you, and the talks I have before me with you, which I could never have with anyone else; and I don’t know which subject to begin upon first. Mais je ne vous ferai grâce de rien. I must have everything out with you. Oh, I ought to give you a sketch of the company you will meet with us. I’ll begin with the ladies. Princess Varvara—you know her, and I know your opinion and Stiva’s about her. Stiva says the whole aim of her existence is to prove her superiority over Auntie Katerina Pavlovna: that’s all true; but she’s a good-natured woman, and I am so grateful to her. In Petersburg there was a moment when a chaperon was absolutely essential for me. Then she turned up. But really she is good-natured. She did a great deal to alleviate my position. I see you don’t understand all the difficulty of my position ... there in Petersburg. Here I’m perfectly at ease and happy. Well, of that later on, though. Then Sviazhsky—he’s the marshal of the district, and he’s a very good sort of a man, but he wants to get something out of Alexey. You understand, with his property, now that we are settled in the country, Alexey can exercise great influence. Then there’s Tushkevitch—you have seen him, you know—Betsy’s admirer. Now he’s been thrown over and he’s come to see us. As Alexey says, he’s one of those people who are very pleasant if one accepts them for what they try to appear to be, et puis il est comme il faut, as Princess Varvara says. Then Veslovsky ... you know him. A very nice boy. What’s this wild story about him and the Levins? Veslovsky told Alexey about it, and we don’t believe it. Il est très gentil et naïf. Men need occupation, and Alexey needs a circle, so I value all these people. We have to have the house lively and gay, so that Alexey may not long for any novelty. Then you’ll see the steward—a German, a very good fellow, and he understands his work. Alexey has a very high opinion of him. Then the doctor, a young man, not quite a Nihilist perhaps, but you know, eats with his knife ... but a very good doctor. Then the architect.... Une petite cour! Here’s Dolly for you, princess, you were so anxious to see her. She says she doesn’t want anything before dinner, but please order some lunch for her, and I’ll go and look for Alexey and bring them all in.", "pos": 1490212}
{"speaker": "Princess Varvara", "text": "Her husband will give her a divorce, and then I shall go back to my solitude; but now I can be of use, and I am doing my duty, however difficult it may be for me—not like some other people. And how sweet it is of you, how right of you to have come! They live like the best of married couples; it’s for God to judge them, not for us. And didn’t Biryuzovsky and Madame Avenieva ... and Sam Nikandrov, and Vassiliev and Madame Mamonova, and Liza Neptunova.... Did no one say anything about them? And it has ended by their being received by everyone. And then, c’est un intérieur si joli, si comme il faut. Tout-à-fait à l’anglaise. On se réunit le matin au breakfast, et puis on se sépare. Everyone does as he pleases till dinner time. Dinner at seven o’clock. Stiva did very rightly to send you. He needs their support. You know that through his mother and brother he can do anything. And then they do so much good. He didn’t tell you about his hospital? Ce sera admirable—everything from Paris.", "pos": 1493523}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Une partie de lawn-tennis. We’ll be partners again, Anna Arkadyevna.", "pos": 1494938}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "No, it’s too hot; better stroll about the garden and have a row in the boat, show Darya Alexandrovna the river banks.", "pos": 1495056}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "I agree to anything,", "pos": 1495194}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I imagine that what Dolly would like best would be a stroll—wouldn’t you? And then the boat, perhaps,", "pos": 1495233}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Yes, it’s a very fine building, and in the good old-fashioned style,", "pos": 1497172}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "I like so much the court in front of the steps. Was that always so?", "pos": 1497252}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Oh, no! If you could only have seen that court last spring! If you would care to look at the hospital, and are not tired, indeed, it’s not far. Shall we go? Are you coming, Anna?", "pos": 1497322}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "We will come, won’t we? Mais il ne faut pas laisser le pauvre Veslovsky et Tushkevitch se morfondre là dans le bateau. We must send and tell them. This is a monument he is setting up here,", "pos": 1498059}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "Oh, it’s a work of real importance! I wonder, though, count, that while you do so much for the health of the peasants, you take so little interest in the schools.", "pos": 1498413}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "C’est devenu tellement commun les écoles. You understand it’s not on that account, but it just happens so, my interest has been diverted elsewhere. This way then to the hospital,", "pos": 1498723}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "By the autumn it will all be ready. Inside almost everything is done,", "pos": 1499638}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, I take a great interest in it. This new building ought to have been in harmony with the hospital. It was an afterthought, and was begun without a plan.", "pos": 1500312}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "This is the reception room. Here there will be a desk, tables, and benches, and nothing more.", "pos": 1501179}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "This way; let us go in here. Don’t go near the window. Alexey, the paint’s dry already,", "pos": 1501291}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Yes, I imagine that this will be the solitary example of a properly fitted hospital in Russia,", "pos": 1502152}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "That’s so much needed in the country. I have often....", "pos": 1502316}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "This is not a lying-in home, but a hospital for the sick, and is intended for all diseases, except infectious complaints. Ah! look at this. Look. The patient can’t walk—still too weak, perhaps, or something wrong with his legs, but he must have air, and he moves, rolls himself along.... No, I think the princess is tired, and horses don’t interest her. You go on, while I escort the princess home, and we’ll have a little talk, if you would like that?", "pos": 1502430}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "I know nothing about horses, and I shall be delighted,", "pos": 1503672}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "You guess that I have something I want to say to you. I am not wrong in believing you to be a friend of Anna’s.", "pos": 1504049}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "You have so much influence with Anna, she is so fond of you, do help me. You have come to see us, you, the only woman of Anna’s former friends—I don’t count Princess Varvara—but I know that you have done this not because you regard our position as normal, but because, understanding all the difficulty of the position, you still love her and want to be a help to her. Have I understood you rightly? No. No one feels more deeply and intensely than I do all the difficulty of Anna’s position; and that you may well understand, if you do me the honor of supposing I have any heart. I am to blame for that position, and that is why I feel it.", "pos": 1504955}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "I understand. But just because you feel yourself responsible, you exaggerate it, I am afraid. Her position in the world is difficult, I can well understand.", "pos": 1506197}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "In the world it is hell! You can’t imagine moral sufferings greater than what she went through in Petersburg in that fortnight ... and I beg you to believe it. Society! how could I miss society?", "pos": 1506470}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "So far—and it may be so always—you are happy and at peace. I see in Anna that she is happy, perfectly happy, she has had time to tell me so much already,", "pos": 1506808}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Yes, yes. I know that she has revived after all her sufferings; she is happy. She is happy in the present. But I?... I am afraid of what is before us ... I beg your pardon, you would like to walk on?", "pos": 1507166}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "No, I don’t mind.", "pos": 1507379}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Well, then, let us sit here. I see that she is happy. But can it last? Whether we have acted rightly or wrongly is another question, but the die is cast, and we are bound together for life. We are united by all the ties of love that we hold most sacred. We have a child, we may have other children. But the law and all the conditions of our position are such that thousands of complications arise which she does not see and does not want to see. And that one can well understand. But I can’t help seeing them. My daughter is by law not my daughter, but Karenin’s. I cannot bear this falsity! One day a son may be born, my son, and he will be legally a Karenin; he will not be the heir of my name nor of my property, and however happy we may be in our home life and however many children we may have, there will be no real tie between us. They will be Karenins. You can understand the bitterness and horror of this position! I have tried to speak of this to Anna. It irritates her. She does not understand, and to her I cannot speak plainly of all this. Now look at another side. I am happy, happy in her love, but I must have occupation. I have found occupation, and am proud of what I am doing and consider it nobler than the pursuits of my former companions at court and in the army. And most certainly I would not change the work I am doing for theirs. I am working here, settled in my own place, and I am happy and contented, and we need nothing more to make us happy. I love my work here. Ce n’est pas un pis-aller. Well, I will go on. The great thing is that as I work I want to have a conviction that what I am doing will not die with me, that I shall have heirs to come after me,—and this I have not. Conceive the position of a man who knows that his children, the children of the woman he loves, will not be his, but will belong to someone who hates them and cares nothing about them! It is awful!", "pos": 1507399}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Yes, indeed, I see that. But what can Anna do?", "pos": 1510244}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Yes, that brings me to the object of my conversation. Anna can, it depends on her.... Even to petition the Tsar for legitimization, a divorce is essential. And that depends on Anna. Her husband agreed to a divorce—at that time your husband had arranged it completely. And now, I know, he would not refuse it. It is only a matter of writing to him. He said plainly at that time that if she expressed the desire, he would not refuse. Of course, it is one of those Pharisaical cruelties of which only such heartless men are capable. He knows what agony any recollection of him must give her, and knowing her, he must have a letter from her. I can understand that it is agony to her. But the matter is of such importance, that one must passer par-dessus toutes ces finesses de sentiment. Il y va du bonheur et de l’existence d’Anne et de ses enfants. I won’t speak of myself, though it’s hard for me, very hard,", "pos": 1510321}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Yes, of course. Yes, of course,", "pos": 1511543}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Use your influence with her, make her write. I don’t like—I’m almost unable to speak about this to her.", "pos": 1511730}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Very well, I will talk to her. But how is it she does not think of it herself?", "pos": 1511836}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I believe it’s dinner time. We’ve not seen each other at all yet. I am reckoning on the evening. Now I want to go and dress. I expect you do too; we all got splashed at the buildings.", "pos": 1512591}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "This is all I can do,", "pos": 1513073}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, we are too formal here. Alexey is delighted at your visit, as he rarely is at anything. He has completely lost his heart to you. You’re not tired?", "pos": 1513194}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Nikolay Ivanitch was struck, at the progress the new building had made since he was here last; but I am there every day, and every day I wonder at the rate at which it grows.", "pos": 1516623}
{"speaker": "architect", "text": "It’s first-rate working with his excellency. It’s a very different matter to have to do with the district authorities. Where one would have to write out sheaves of papers, here I call upon the count, and in three words we settle the business.", "pos": 1516831}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "The American way of doing business,", "pos": 1517184}
{"speaker": "architect", "text": "Yes, there they build in a rational fashion....", "pos": 1517252}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Have you ever seen a reaping machine? We had just ridden over to look at one when we met. It’s the first time I ever saw one.", "pos": 1517470}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "How do they work?", "pos": 1517641}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Exactly like little scissors. A plank and a lot of little scissors. Like this.", "pos": 1517674}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "More like little penknives,", "pos": 1518034}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Isn’t it true, Karl Fedoritch, that it’s just like little scissors?", "pos": 1518177}
{"speaker": "steward", "text": "Oh, ja. Es ist ein ganz einfaches Ding,", "pos": 1518272}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "It’s a pity it doesn’t bind too. I saw one at the Vienna exhibition, which binds with a wire. They would be more profitable in use.", "pos": 1518394}
{"speaker": "German", "text": "Es kommt drauf an.... Der Preis vom Draht muss ausgerechnet werden. Das lässt sich ausrechnen, Erlaucht. Zu compliziert, macht zu viel Klopot,", "pos": 1518546}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Wünscht man Dochots, so hat man auch Klopots. J’adore l’allemand,", "pos": 1518975}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Cessez. We expected to find you in the fields, Vassily Semyonitch, have you been there?", "pos": 1519137}
{"speaker": "doctor", "text": "I went there, but I had taken flight,", "pos": 1519309}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Then you’ve taken a good constitutional?", "pos": 1519393}
{"speaker": "doctor", "text": "Splendid!", "pos": 1519436}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Well, and how was the old woman? I hope it’s not typhus?", "pos": 1519448}
{"speaker": "doctor", "text": "Typhus it is not, but it’s taking a bad turn.", "pos": 1519507}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "What a pity!", "pos": 1519555}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "It would be a hard task, though, to construct a machine from your description, Anna Arkadyevna,", "pos": 1519678}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh, no, why so?", "pos": 1519802}
{"speaker": "Tushkevitch", "text": "But Anna Arkadyevna’s knowledge of architecture is marvelous,", "pos": 1520055}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "To be sure, I heard Anna Arkadyevna talking yesterday about plinths and damp-courses. Have I got it right?", "pos": 1520137}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "There’s nothing marvelous about it, when one sees and hears so much of it. But, I dare say, you don’t even know what houses are made of?", "pos": 1520264}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Come now, tell us, Veslovsky, how are the stones held together?", "pos": 1520723}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "By cement, of course.", "pos": 1520789}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Bravo! And what is cement?", "pos": 1520813}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Oh, some sort of paste ... no, putty,", "pos": 1520841}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I have not the pleasure of knowing this M. Levin, but most likely he has never seen the machines he condemns; or if he has seen and tried any, it must have been after a queer fashion, some Russian imitation, not a machine from abroad. What sort of views can anyone have on such a subject?", "pos": 1521502}
{"speaker": "Veslovsky", "text": "Turkish views, in general,", "pos": 1521818}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "I can’t defend his opinions, but I can say that he’s a highly cultivated man, and if he were here he would know very well how to answer you, though I am not capable of doing so.", "pos": 1521893}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "I like him extremely, and we are great friends. Mais pardon, il est un petit peu toqué; he maintains, for instance, that district councils and arbitration boards are all of no use, and he is unwilling to take part in anything.", "pos": 1522111}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "It’s our Russian apathy, we’ve no sense of the duties our privileges impose upon us, and so we refuse to recognize these duties.", "pos": 1522382}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "I know no man more strict in the performance of his duties,", "pos": 1522603}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "For my part, such as I am, I am, on the contrary, extremely grateful for the honor they have done me, thanks to Nikolay Ivanitch in electing me a justice of the peace. I consider that for me the duty of being present at the session, of judging some peasants’ quarrel about a horse, is as important as anything I can do. And I shall regard it as an honor if they elect me for the district council. It’s only in that way I can pay for the advantages I enjoy as a landowner. Unluckily they don’t understand the weight that the big landowners ought to have in the state.", "pos": 1522734}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "So we can reckon upon you, count, for the coming elections? But you must come a little beforehand, so as to be on the spot by the eighth. If you would do me the honor to stop with me.", "pos": 1523693}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I rather agree with your beau-frère, though not quite on the same ground as he. I’m afraid that we have too many of these public duties in these latter days. Just as in old days there were so many government functionaries that one had to call in a functionary for every single thing, so now everyone’s doing some sort of public duty. Alexey has been here now six months, and he’s a member, I do believe, of five or six different public bodies. Du train que cela va, the whole time will be wasted on it. And I’m afraid that with such a multiplicity of these bodies, they’ll end in being a mere form. How many are you a member of, Nikolay Ivanitch? over twenty, I fancy.", "pos": 1523897}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Afterwards, by ourselves, we’ll talk about everything. I’ve got so much I want to tell you. Well, what of Kitty? Tell me the truth, Dolly: isn’t she angry with me?", "pos": 1528501}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Angry? Oh, no!", "pos": 1529052}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "But she hates me, despises me?", "pos": 1529103}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Oh, no! But you know that sort of thing isn’t forgiven.", "pos": 1529136}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, yes. But I was not to blame. And who is to blame? What’s the meaning of being to blame? Could it have been otherwise? What do you think? Could it possibly have happened that you didn’t become the wife of Stiva?", "pos": 1529194}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Really, I don’t know. But this is what I want you to tell me....", "pos": 1529474}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, yes, but we’ve not finished about Kitty. Is she happy? He’s a very nice man, they say.", "pos": 1529541}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "He’s much more than very nice. I don’t know a better man.", "pos": 1529635}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Ah, how glad I am! I’m so glad! Much more than very nice. But tell me about yourself. We’ve a great deal to talk about. And I’ve had a talk with.... With Alexey. I know what you talked about. But I wanted to ask you directly what you think of me, of my life?", "pos": 1529695}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "How am I to say like that straight off? I really don’t know.", "pos": 1530111}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "No, tell me all the same.... You see my life. But you mustn’t forget that you’re seeing us in the summer, when you have come to us and we are not alone.... But we came here early in the spring, lived quite alone, and shall be alone again, and I desire nothing better. But imagine me living alone without him, alone, and that will be ... I see by everything that it will often be repeated, that he will be half the time away from home,", "pos": 1530174}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Of course. He spoke of what I want to speak about of myself, and it’s easy for me to be his advocate; of whether there is not a possibility ... whether you could not.... correct, improve your position.... You know how I look at it.... But all the same, if possible, you should get married....", "pos": 1530665}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Divorce, you mean? Au fond, c’est la femme la plus depravée qui existe. She had an intrigue with Tushkevitch, deceiving her husband in the basest way. And she told me that she did not care to know me so long as my position was irregular. Don’t imagine I would compare ... I know you, darling. But I could not help remembering.... Well, so what did he say to you? What wife, what slave can be so utterly a slave as I, in my position?", "pos": 1531324}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "The chief thing he desires ... he desires that you should not suffer.", "pos": 1532158}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "That’s impossible. Well?", "pos": 1532230}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Well, and the most legitimate desire—he wishes that your children should have a name.", "pos": 1532257}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "What children? Annie and those to come.... He need not trouble on that score; I shall have no more children. I shall not, because I don’t wish it.", "pos": 1532345}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "N’est-ce pas immoral?", "pos": 1533539}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Why so? Think, I have a choice between two alternatives: either to be with child, that is an invalid, or to be the friend and companion of my husband—practically my husband. For you, for other people, there may be reason to hesitate; but for me.... You must consider, I am not his wife; he loves me as long as he loves me. And how am I to keep his love? Not like this!", "pos": 1533602}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Do you say that it’s not right? But you must consider, you forget my position. How can I desire children? I’m not speaking of the suffering, I’m not afraid of that. Think only, what are my children to be? Ill-fated children, who will have to bear a stranger’s name. For the very fact of their birth they will be forced to be ashamed of their mother, their father, their birth.", "pos": 1535181}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "But that is just why a divorce is necessary.", "pos": 1535575}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world! I should always feel I had wronged these unhappy children. If they are not, at any rate they are not unhappy; while if they are unhappy, I alone should be to blame for it.", "pos": 1535751}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "No, I don’t know; it’s not right,", "pos": 1536560}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, but you mustn’t forget that you and I.... And besides that, don’t forget the chief point, that I am not now in the same position as you. For you the question is: do you desire not to have any more children; while for me it is: do I desire to have them? And that’s a great difference. You must see that I can’t desire it in my position.", "pos": 1536657}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Then there is all the more reason for you to legalize your position, if possible,", "pos": 1537367}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, if possible,", "pos": 1537463}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Surely you don’t mean a divorce is impossible? I was told your husband had consented to it.", "pos": 1537567}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Dolly, I don’t want to talk about that.", "pos": 1537661}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Oh, we won’t then. All I see is that you take too gloomy a view of things.", "pos": 1537703}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I? Not at all! I’m always bright and happy. You see, je fais des passions. Veslovsky....", "pos": 1537871}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Yes, to tell the truth, I don’t like Veslovsky’s tone,", "pos": 1537962}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh, that’s nonsense! It amuses Alexey, and that’s all; but he’s a boy, and quite under my control. You know, I turn him as I please. It’s just as it might be with your Grisha.... Dolly! you say I take too gloomy a view of things. You can’t understand. It’s too awful! I try not to take any view of it at all.", "pos": 1538075}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "But I think you ought to. You ought to do all you can.", "pos": 1538421}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "But what can I do? Nothing. You tell me to marry Alexey, and say I don’t think about it. I don’t think about it! I don’t think of it? Not a day, not an hour passes that I don’t think of it, and blame myself for thinking of it ... because thinking of that may drive me mad. Drive me mad! When I think of it, I can’t sleep without morphine. But never mind. Let us talk quietly. They tell me, divorce. In the first place, he won’t give me a divorce. He’s under the influence of Countess Lidia Ivanovna now.", "pos": 1538477}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "You ought to make the attempt,", "pos": 1539302}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Suppose I make the attempt. What does it mean? It means that I, hating him, but still recognizing that I have wronged him—and I consider him magnanimous—that I humiliate myself to write to him.... Well, suppose I make the effort; I do it. Either I receive a humiliating refusal or consent.... Well, I have received his consent, say.... I receive his consent, but my ... my son? They won’t give him up to me. He will grow up despising me, with his father, whom I’ve abandoned. Do you see, I love ... equally, I think, but both more than myself—two creatures, Seryozha and Alexey. It is only those two creatures that I love, and one excludes the other. I can’t have them together, and that’s the only thing I want. And since I can’t have that, I don’t care about the rest. I don’t care about anything, anything. And it will end one way or another, and so I can’t, I don’t like to talk of it. So don’t blame me, don’t judge me for anything. You can’t with your pure heart understand all that I’m suffering. What are you thinking? What are you thinking about me? Don’t despise me. I don’t deserve contempt. I’m simply unhappy. If anyone is unhappy, I am,", "pos": 1539352}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I am so glad you like Dolly. You do, don’t you?", "pos": 1542659}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Oh, I’ve known her a long while, you know. She’s very good-hearted, I suppose, mais excessivement terre-à-terre. Still, I’m very glad to see her.", "pos": 1542709}
{"speaker": "Philip", "text": "Rolling in wealth they may be, but three pots of oats was all they gave us. Everything cleared up till there wasn’t a grain left by cockcrow. What are three pots? A mere mouthful! And oats now down to forty-five kopecks. At our place, no fear, all comers may have as much as they can eat.", "pos": 1544093}
{"speaker": "counting-house clerk", "text": "The master’s a screw,", "pos": 1544384}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Well, did you like their horses?", "pos": 1544441}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The horses!—there’s no two opinions about them. And the food was good. But it seemed to me sort of dreary there, Darya Alexandrovna. I don’t know what you thought,", "pos": 1544489}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "I thought so too. Well, shall we get home by evening?", "pos": 1544712}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Eh, we must!", "pos": 1544768}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "One has to know Anna and Vronsky—I have got to know him better now—to see how nice they are, and how touching,", "pos": 1545125}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I hope you won’t be dull?", "pos": 1550942}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I hope not. I got a box of books yesterday from Gautier’s. No, I shan’t be dull.", "pos": 1550970}
{"speaker": "solicitor", "text": "I tell you what you might try, go to so-and-so and so-and-so. It’ll mean some delay, anyway, but you might try it.", "pos": 1553834}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Please tell Marya Ivanovna my wife is very sorry she couldn’t come to the Home.", "pos": 1558163}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I kiss the cross,", "pos": 1558596}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Oh, no! He’s an honest man. But those old-fashioned methods of paternal family arrangements in the management of provincial affairs must be broken down.", "pos": 1560635}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "We are placing our forces. Sergey Ivanovitch! One district’s enough, and Sviazhsky’s obviously of the opposition. Why, Kostya, you here too! I suppose you’re converted, eh? O sancta simplicitas!", "pos": 1563773}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "What is it? eh? whom? No guarantee? whose? what? They won’t pass him? No guarantee? They won’t let Flerov in? Eh, because of the charge against him? Why, at this rate, they won’t admit anyone. It’s a swindle! The law!", "pos": 1565459}
{"speaker": "landowner", "text": "A ballot! Put it to the vote! No need for more talking!", "pos": 1567149}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A ballot!", "pos": 1567806}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Every nobleman sees it!", "pos": 1567826}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We shed our blood for our country!...", "pos": 1567850}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The confidence of the monarch....", "pos": 1567888}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No checking the accounts of the marshal; he’s not a cashier....", "pos": 1567922}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But that’s not the point....", "pos": 1567986}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Votes, please!", "pos": 1568015}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Beastly!...", "pos": 1568030}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "And one vote may decide the whole question, and one must be serious and consecutive, if one wants to be of use in public life,", "pos": 1568830}
{"speaker": "Secretary", "text": "Please come, Konstantin Dmitrievitch, your brother’s looking for you. They are voting on the legal point.", "pos": 1570026}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Where am I to put it?", "pos": 1570606}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "That is a matter for each man’s own decision,", "pos": 1570861}
{"speaker": "Secretary", "text": "A hundred and twenty-six for admission! Ninety-eight against!", "pos": 1571276}
{"speaker": "Snetkov", "text": "I have served to the best of my powers with truth and good faith, I value your goodness and thank you. Beg pardon, excuse me, please,", "pos": 1572068}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "So you’re sure to be our marshal again,", "pos": 1573910}
{"speaker": "the marshal", "text": "It’s not likely. I’m worn out, I’m old. If there are men younger and more deserving than I, let them serve.", "pos": 1573960}
{"speaker": "the landowner", "text": "I’ve brought one, drenched him with water. He’s all right? he’ll do.", "pos": 1574954}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "Not too drunk, he won’t fall down?", "pos": 1575090}
{"speaker": "the landowner", "text": "No, he’s first-rate. If only they don’t give him any more here.... I’ve told the waiter not to give him anything on any account.", "pos": 1575161}
{"speaker": "country gentleman", "text": "He’s such a blackguard! I have told him so, but it makes no difference. Only think of it! He couldn’t collect it in three years!", "pos": 1576727}
{"speaker": "small gentleman", "text": "Yes, it’s a dirty business, there’s no denying,", "pos": 1577168}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How dare he say I had his breeches stolen! Pawned them for drink, I expect. Damn the fellow, prince indeed! He’d better not say it, the beast!", "pos": 1577455}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But excuse me! They take their stand on the act,", "pos": 1577600}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "the wife must be registered as noble.", "pos": 1577684}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, damn your acts! I speak from my heart. We’re all gentlemen, aren’t we? Above suspicion.", "pos": 1577724}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Shall we go on, your excellency, fine champagne?", "pos": 1577818}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I always advised Marya Semyonovna to let for a fair rent, for she can never save a profit,", "pos": 1578000}
{"speaker": "landowner", "text": "Very glad to see you! To be sure! I remember you very well. Last year at our district marshal, Nikolay Ivanovitch’s.", "pos": 1578386}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, and how is your land doing?", "pos": 1578505}
{"speaker": "landowner", "text": "Oh, still just the same, always at a loss. And how do you come to be in our province? Come to take part in our coup d’état? All Russia’s here—gentlemen of the bedchamber, and everything short of the ministry.", "pos": 1578554}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I ought to own that I don’t very well understand the drift of the provincial elections,", "pos": 1579091}
{"speaker": "landowner", "text": "Why, what is there to understand? There’s no meaning in it at all. It’s a decaying institution that goes on running only by the force of inertia. Just look, the very uniforms tell you that it’s an assembly of justices of the peace, permanent members of the court, and so on, but not of noblemen.", "pos": 1579222}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Then why do you come?", "pos": 1579520}
{"speaker": "landowner", "text": "From habit, nothing else. Then, too, one must keep up connections. It’s a moral obligation of a sort. And then, to tell the truth, there’s one’s own interests. My son-in-law wants to stand as a permanent member; they’re not rich people, and he must be brought forward. These gentlemen, now, what do they come for? That’s the new generation of nobility. New it may be, but nobility it isn’t. They’re proprietors of a sort, but we’re the landowners. As noblemen, they’re cutting their own throats. That it may be, but still it ought to be treated a little more respectfully. Snetkov, now.... We may be of use, or we may not, but we’re the growth of a thousand years. If we’re laying out a garden, planning one before the house, you know, and there you’ve a tree that’s stood for centuries in the very spot.... Old and gnarled it may be, and yet you don’t cut down the old fellow to make room for the flowerbeds, but lay out your beds so as to take advantage of the tree. You won’t grow him again in a year. Well, and how is your land doing?", "pos": 1579557}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, not very well. I make five per cent.", "pos": 1580810}
{"speaker": "landowner", "text": "Yes, but you don’t reckon your own work. Aren’t you worth something too? I’ll tell you my own case. Before I took to seeing after the land, I had a salary of three hundred pounds from the service. Now I do more work than I did in the service, and like you I get five per cent. on the land, and thank God for that. But one’s work is thrown in for nothing.", "pos": 1580853}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Then why do you do it, if it’s a clear loss?", "pos": 1581210}
{"speaker": "landowner", "text": "Oh, well, one does it! What would you have? It’s habit, and one knows it’s how it should be. And what’s more, my son, I must tell you, has no taste for it. There’s no doubt he’ll be a scientific man. So there’ll be no one to keep it up. And yet one does it. Here this year I’ve planted an orchard.", "pos": 1581257}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, yes, that’s perfectly true. I always feel there’s no real balance of gain in my work on the land, and yet one does it.... It’s a sort of duty one feels to the land.", "pos": 1581632}
{"speaker": "landowner", "text": "But I tell you what, a neighbor of mine, a merchant, was at my place. We walked about the fields and the garden. ‘No,’ said he, ‘Stepan Vassilievitch, everything’s well looked after, but your garden’s neglected.’ But, as a fact, it’s well kept up. ‘To my thinking, I’d cut down that lime-tree. Here you’ve thousands of limes, and each would make two good bundles of bark. And nowadays that bark’s worth something. I’d cut down the lot.’", "pos": 1581818}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "And with what he made he’d increase his stock, or buy some land for a trifle, and let it out in lots to the peasants. And he’d make his fortune. But you and I must thank God if we keep what we’ve got and leave it to our children.", "pos": 1582282}
{"speaker": "landowner", "text": "You’re married, I’ve heard?", "pos": 1582613}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes. Yes, it’s rather strange. So we live without making anything, as though we were ancient vestals set to keep in a fire.", "pos": 1582663}
{"speaker": "landowner", "text": "There are some among us, too, like our friend Nikolay Ivanovitch, or Count Vronsky, that’s settled here lately, who try to carry on their husbandry as though it were a factory; but so far it leads to nothing but making away with capital on it.", "pos": 1582896}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But why is it we don’t do like the merchants? Why don’t we cut down our parks for timber?", "pos": 1583142}
{"speaker": "landowner", "text": "Why, as you said, to keep the fire in. Besides that’s not work for a nobleman. And our work as noblemen isn’t done here at the elections, but yonder, each in our corner. There’s a class instinct, too, of what one ought and oughtn’t to do. There’s the peasants, too, I wonder at them sometimes; any good peasant tries to take all the land he can. However bad the land is, he’ll work it. Without a return too. At a simple loss.", "pos": 1583290}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Just as we do. Very, very glad to have met you,", "pos": 1583718}
{"speaker": "landowner", "text": "and we’ve had a good talk too.", "pos": 1583927}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "Well, have you been attacking the new order of things?", "pos": 1583960}
{"speaker": "landowner", "text": "That we’re bound to do.", "pos": 1584046}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "You’ve relieved your feelings?", "pos": 1584072}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Delighted! I believe I’ve had the pleasure of meeting you ... at Princess Shtcherbatskaya’s,", "pos": 1584334}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, I quite remember our meeting. What are we waiting for now?", "pos": 1584461}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "For Snetkov. He has to refuse or to consent to stand,", "pos": 1584966}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, and what has he done, consented or not?", "pos": 1585042}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "That’s the point, that he’s done neither,", "pos": 1585090}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Whoever chooses to. Certainly not I. Who then? Nevyedovsky?", "pos": 1585223}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I certainly shall not, under any circumstances,", "pos": 1585596}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, you find it exciting too? It’s something like a race. One might bet on it.", "pos": 1585745}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Yes, it is keenly exciting. And once taking the thing up, one’s eager to see it through. It’s a fight!", "pos": 1585876}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "What a capable fellow Sviazhsky is! Sees it all so clearly.", "pos": 1586046}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Oh, yes! How is it that you, living constantly in the country, are not a justice of the peace? You are not in the uniform of one.", "pos": 1586108}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "It’s because I consider that the justice of the peace is a silly institution,", "pos": 1586494}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I don’t think so, quite the contrary,", "pos": 1586750}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "It’s a plaything. We don’t want justices of the peace. I’ve never had a single thing to do with them during eight years. And what I have had was decided wrongly by them. The justice of the peace is over thirty miles from me. For some matter of two roubles I should have to send a lawyer, who costs me fifteen.", "pos": 1586825}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Oh, this is such an original fellow! But come along; I think they’re voting....", "pos": 1587387}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "I can’t understand. I can’t understand how anyone can be so absolutely devoid of political tact. That’s where we Russians are so deficient. The marshal of the province is our opponent, and with him you’re ami cochon, and you beg him to stand. Count Vronsky, now ... I’m not making a friend of him; he’s asked me to dinner, and I’m not going; but he’s one of our side—why make an enemy of him? Then you ask Nevyedovsky if he’s going to stand. That’s not a thing to do.", "pos": 1587558}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, I don’t understand it at all! And it’s all such nonsense,", "pos": 1588097}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "You say it’s all such nonsense, but as soon as you have anything to do with it, you make a muddle.", "pos": 1588186}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Put it in the right side,", "pos": 1588867}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "Well, now is it over? It’s only just beginning. Some other candidate may receive more votes than the marshal.", "pos": 1589855}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How glad I am I heard Koznishev! It’s worth losing one’s dinner. He’s exquisite! So clear and distinct all of it! There’s not one of you in the law courts that speaks like that. The only one is Meidel, and he’s not so eloquent by a long way.", "pos": 1591234}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "As a candidate for the marshalship of the nobility of the province we call upon staff-captain Yevgeney Ivanovitch Apuhtin!", "pos": 1591740}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Declined!", "pos": 1591927}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We call upon the privy councilor Pyotr Petrovitch Bol,", "pos": 1591939}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Declined!", "pos": 1592018}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Declined.", "pos": 1592085}
{"speaker": "Deputy Prosecutor", "text": "I told you you weren’t late,", "pos": 1592698}
{"speaker": "Secretary", "text": "This way, please, Konstantin Dmitrievitch; they are voting.", "pos": 1592971}
{"speaker": "Red-faced gentleman", "text": "I can’t stand any more of it,", "pos": 1593291}
{"speaker": "Marshal of the province", "text": "I told you not to let anyone out!", "pos": 1593477}
{"speaker": "doorkeeper", "text": "I let someone in, your excellency!", "pos": 1593541}
{"speaker": "Marshal of the province", "text": "Mercy on us!", "pos": 1593578}
{"speaker": "Sviazhsky", "text": "his excellency would have to select another more complicated method of auditing the accounts than tears. our marshal, your excellency.", "pos": 1597757}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Nevyedovsky elected by twenty votes. Congratulations. Tell people. We must let them share our rejoicing.", "pos": 1598689}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "There’ll be a ball, and you’ll see the belle of the province. Worth seeing, really.", "pos": 1599831}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Not in my line,", "pos": 1599917}
{"speaker": "Valet", "text": "From Vozdvizhenskoe by special messenger,", "pos": 1600140}
{"speaker": "Guest", "text": "Astonishing! how like he is to the deputy prosecutor Sventitsky,", "pos": 1600223}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Annie is very ill, the doctor says it may be inflammation. I am losing my head all alone. Princess Varvara is no help, but a hindrance. I expected you the day before yesterday, and yesterday, and now I am sending to find out where you are and what you are doing. I wanted to come myself, but thought better of it, knowing you would dislike it. Send some answer, that I may know what to do.", "pos": 1600836}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "He has the right to go away when and where he chooses. Not simply to go away, but to leave me. He has every right, and I have none. But knowing that, he ought not to do it. What has he done, though?... He looked at me with a cold, severe expression. Of course that is something indefinable, impalpable, but it has never been so before, and that glance means a great deal. That glance shows the beginning of indifference.", "pos": 1602186}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Well, how is Annie?", "pos": 1605949}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh, she is better.", "pos": 1606119}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "And you? Well, I’m glad. Well, I’m glad. And are you well?", "pos": 1606140}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Never mind, only let him be here, and so long as he’s here he cannot, he dare not, cease to love me.", "pos": 1606619}
{"speaker": "Princess Varvara", "text": "What am I to do? I couldn’t sleep.... My thoughts prevented me. When he’s here I never take it—hardly ever.", "pos": 1606887}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Tell me frankly, you were vexed at getting my letter, and you didn’t believe me?", "pos": 1607454}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Yes, the letter was so strange. First, Annie ill, and then you thought of coming yourself.", "pos": 1607652}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "It was all the truth.", "pos": 1607756}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Oh, I don’t doubt it.", "pos": 1607780}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, you do doubt it. You are vexed, I see.", "pos": 1607804}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Not for one moment. I’m only vexed, that’s true, that you seem somehow unwilling to admit that there are duties....", "pos": 1607850}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "The duty of going to a concert....", "pos": 1607968}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "But we won’t talk about it,", "pos": 1608005}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Why not talk about it?", "pos": 1608044}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I only meant to say that matters of real importance may turn up. Now, for instance, I shall have to go to Moscow to arrange about the house.... Oh, Anna, why are you so irritable? Don’t you know that I can’t live without you?", "pos": 1608079}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "If so, it means that you are sick of this life.... Yes, you will come for a day and go away, as men do....", "pos": 1608307}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Anna, that’s cruel. I am ready to give up my whole life.", "pos": 1608458}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "If you go to Moscow, I will go too. I will not stay here. Either we must separate or else live together.", "pos": 1608543}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Why, you know, that’s my one desire. But for that....", "pos": 1608650}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "We must get a divorce. I will write to him. I see I cannot go on like this.... But I will come with you to Moscow.", "pos": 1608706}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "You talk as if you were threatening me. But I desire nothing so much as never to be parted from you,", "pos": 1608823}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "If so, it’s a calamity!", "pos": 1609138}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I am very sorry you weren’t there. Not that you weren’t in the room ... I couldn’t have been so natural in your presence ... I am blushing now much more, much, much more. But that you couldn’t see through a crack.", "pos": 1616052}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "It’s so wretched to feel that there’s a man almost an enemy whom it’s painful to meet. I’m very, very glad.", "pos": 1616913}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Go, please, go then and call on the Bols. I know you are dining at the club; papa put down your name. But what are you going to do in the morning?", "pos": 1617047}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I am only going to Katavasov,", "pos": 1617288}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Why so early?", "pos": 1617336}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "He promised to introduce me to Metrov. I wanted to talk to him about my work. He’s a distinguished scientific man from Petersburg,", "pos": 1617352}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Yes; wasn’t it his article you were praising so? Well, and after that?", "pos": 1617497}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I shall go to the court, perhaps, about my sister’s business.", "pos": 1617582}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "And the concert?", "pos": 1617646}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I shan’t go there all alone.", "pos": 1617678}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "No? do go; there are going to be some new things.... That interested you so. I should certainly go.", "pos": 1617709}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, anyway, I shall come home before dinner,", "pos": 1617811}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Put on your frock coat, so that you can go straight to call on Countess Bola.", "pos": 1617891}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But is it absolutely necessary?", "pos": 1617971}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, absolutely! He has been to see us. Come, what is it? You go in, sit down, talk for five minutes of the weather, get up and go away.", "pos": 1618005}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, you wouldn’t believe it! I’ve got so out of the way of all this that it makes me feel positively ashamed. It’s such a horrible thing to do! A complete outsider walks in, sits down, stays on with nothing to do, wastes their time and worries himself, and walks away!", "pos": 1618143}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Why, I suppose you used to pay calls before you were married, didn’t you?", "pos": 1618429}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, I did, but I always felt ashamed, and now I’m so out of the way of it that, by Jove! I’d sooner go two days running without my dinner than pay this call! One’s so ashamed! I feel all the while that they’re annoyed, that they’re saying, ‘What has he come for?’", "pos": 1618505}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "No, they won’t. I’ll answer for that. Well, good-bye.... Do go, please. Kostya, do you know I’ve only fifty roubles left?", "pos": 1618772}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, all right, I’ll go to the bank and get some. How much?", "pos": 1619042}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "No, wait a minute. Let’s talk about it, it worries me. I seem to spend nothing unnecessary, but money seems to fly away simply. We don’t manage well, somehow.", "pos": 1619169}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, it’s all right,", "pos": 1619351}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Yes, but I’m afraid that altogether....", "pos": 1619810}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, it’s all right, all right. Well, good-bye, darling.", "pos": 1619852}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "No, I’m really sorry sometimes that I listened to mamma. How nice it would have been in the country! As it is, I’m worrying you all, and we’re wasting our money.", "pos": 1619925}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Not at all, not at all. Not once since I’ve been married have I said that things could have been better than they are....", "pos": 1620089}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Truly?", "pos": 1620213}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Will it be soon? How do you feel?", "pos": 1620544}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I have so often thought so, that now I don’t think about it or know anything about it.", "pos": 1620616}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "And you’re not frightened?", "pos": 1620705}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Not the least little bit,", "pos": 1620761}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, if anything happens, I shall be at Katavasov’s.", "pos": 1620799}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "No, nothing will happen, and don’t think about it. I’m going for a walk on the boulevard with papa. We’re going to see Dolly. I shall expect you before dinner. Oh, yes! Do you know that Dolly’s position is becoming utterly impossible? She’s in debt all round; she hasn’t a penny. We were talking yesterday with mamma and Arseny, and we determined to send you with him to talk to Stiva. It’s really unbearable. One can’t speak to papa about it.... But if you and he....", "pos": 1620855}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Why, what can we do?", "pos": 1621365}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "You’ll be at Arseny’s, anyway; talk to him, he will tell what we decided.", "pos": 1621400}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, I agree to everything Arseny thinks beforehand. I’ll go and see him. By the way, if I do go to the concert, I’ll go with Natalia. Well, good-bye.", "pos": 1621476}
{"speaker": "Kouzma", "text": "Beauty has been badly shod and is quite lame. What does your honor wish to be done?", "pos": 1621837}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Send for the veterinary, there may be a bruise.", "pos": 1622226}
{"speaker": "Kouzma", "text": "And for Katerina Alexandrovna?", "pos": 1622276}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Hire a pair for our carriage from the jobmaster,", "pos": 1622657}
{"speaker": "Kouzma", "text": "Yes, sir.", "pos": 1622717}
{"speaker": "Katavasov", "text": "You’re positively a reformed character, I’m glad to see. I heard the bell and thought: Impossible that it can be he at the exact time!... Well, what do you say to the Montenegrins now? They’re a race of warriors.", "pos": 1626800}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Why, what’s happened?", "pos": 1627074}
{"speaker": "Katavasov", "text": "Yes, here he’s written almost a book on the natural conditions of the laborer in relation to the land. I’m not a specialist, but I, as a natural science man, was pleased at his not taking mankind as something outside biological laws; but, on the contrary, seeing his dependence on his surroundings, and in that dependence seeking the laws of his development.", "pos": 1627817}
{"speaker": "Metrov", "text": "That’s very interesting,", "pos": 1628196}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "What I began precisely was to write a book on agriculture; but studying the chief instrument of agriculture, the laborer. I could not help coming to quite unexpected results.", "pos": 1628236}
{"speaker": "Metrov", "text": "But in what do you see the special characteristics of the Russian laborer? in his biological characteristics, so to speak, or in the condition in which he is placed? One may easily be led into error in basing any conclusion on the general vocation of a people. The condition of the laborer will always depend on his relation to the land and to capital.", "pos": 1628779}
{"speaker": "Katavasov", "text": "We are late though. Yes, there’s a meeting of the Society of Amateurs today in commemoration of the jubilee of Svintitch. Pyotr Ivanovitch and I were going. I’ve promised to deliver an address on his labors in zoology. Come along with us, it’s very interesting.", "pos": 1631724}
{"speaker": "Metrov", "text": "Yes, and indeed it’s time to start. Come with us, and from there, if you care to, come to my place. I should very much like to hear your work.", "pos": 1632118}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, no! It’s no good yet, it’s unfinished. But I shall be very glad to go to the meeting.", "pos": 1632278}
{"speaker": "Katavasov", "text": "I say, friends, have you heard? He has handed in the separate report,", "pos": 1632370}
{"speaker": "student", "text": "Biography.", "pos": 1633884}
{"speaker": "Lvov", "text": "Capital! I was meaning to send to you. How’s Kitty? Sit here, it’s more comfortable. Have you read the last circular in the Journal de St. Pétersbourg? I think it’s excellent. That’s what I envy you, that you are able to mix in these interesting scientific circles. It’s true I haven’t the time for it. My official work and the children leave me no time; and then I’m not ashamed to own that my education has been too defective.", "pos": 1636722}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "That I don’t believe,", "pos": 1637553}
{"speaker": "Lvov", "text": "Oh, yes, indeed! I feel now how badly educated I am. To educate my children I positively have to look up a great deal, and in fact simply to study myself. For it’s not enough to have teachers, there must be someone to look after them, just as on your land you want laborers and an overseer. See what I’m reading it’s expected of Misha, and it’s so difficult.... Come, explain to me.... Here he says.... Oh, you’re laughing at it!", "pos": 1637772}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "On the contrary, you can’t imagine how, when I look at you, I’m always learning the task that lies before me, that is the education of one’s children.", "pos": 1638379}
{"speaker": "Lvov", "text": "Well, there’s nothing for you to learn,", "pos": 1638532}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "All I know, is that I have never seen better brought-up children than yours, and I wouldn’t wish for children better than yours.", "pos": 1638585}
{"speaker": "Lvov", "text": "If only they’re better than I! That’s all I desire. You don’t know yet all the work, with boys who’ve been left like mine to run wild abroad.", "pos": 1638835}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "You’ll catch all that up. They’re such clever children. The great thing is the education of character. That’s what I learn when I look at your children.", "pos": 1638990}
{"speaker": "Lvov", "text": "You talk of the education of character. You can’t imagine how difficult that is! You have hardly succeeded in combating one tendency when others crop up, and the struggle begins again. If one had not a support in religion—you remember we talked about that—no father could bring children up relying on his own strength alone without that help.", "pos": 1639145}
{"speaker": "Natalia", "text": "I didn’t know you were here. Well, how is Kitty? I am dining with you today. I tell you what, Arseny, you take the carriage.", "pos": 1639620}
{"speaker": "Lvov", "text": "He’s spoiling me, he assures me that our children are splendid, when I know how much that’s bad there is in them.", "pos": 1640612}
{"speaker": "Natalia", "text": "Arseny goes to extremes, I always say. If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied. And it’s true, as papa says,—that when we were brought up there was one extreme—we were kept in the basement, while our parents lived in the best rooms; now it’s just the other way—the parents are in the wash house, while the children are in the best rooms. Parents now are not expected to live at all, but to exist altogether for their children.", "pos": 1640753}
{"speaker": "Lvov", "text": "Well, what if they like it better? Anyone who didn’t know you would think you were a stepmother, not a true mother.", "pos": 1641215}
{"speaker": "Natalia", "text": "No, extremes are not good in anything,", "pos": 1641391}
{"speaker": "Lvov", "text": "Well, come here, you perfect children,", "pos": 1641522}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, Kitty told me to talk to you about Oblonsky,", "pos": 1642196}
{"speaker": "Lvov", "text": "Yes, yes, maman wants us, les beaux-frères, to attack him. But why should I?", "pos": 1642323}
{"speaker": "Natalia", "text": "Well, then, I will attack him. Come, let us go.", "pos": 1642423}
{"speaker": "Pestsov", "text": "Marvelous! How are you, Konstantin Dmitrievitch? Particularly sculpturesque and plastic, so to say, and richly colored is that passage where you feel Cordelia’s approach, where woman, das ewig Weibliche, enters into conflict with fate. Isn’t it?", "pos": 1644791}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "You mean ... what has Cordelia to do with it?", "pos": 1645080}
{"speaker": "Pestsov", "text": "Cordelia comes in ... see here! You can’t follow it without that,", "pos": 1645215}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "These phantoms were so far from being phantoms that they were positively clinging on the ladder,", "pos": 1646190}
{"speaker": "Madame Lvova", "text": "Well, go at once then, perhaps they’ll not be at home, and then you can come to the meeting to fetch me. You’ll find me still there.", "pos": 1647069}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Perhaps they’re not at home?", "pos": 1647253}
{"speaker": "porter", "text": "At home; please walk in,", "pos": 1647347}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "How annoying! What did I come for? What have I to say to them?", "pos": 1647425}
{"speaker": "Countess Bola", "text": "How is your wife? Have you been at the concert? We couldn’t go. Mamma had to be at the funeral service.", "pos": 1648018}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, I heard.... What a sudden death!", "pos": 1648124}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But she was always in weak health.", "pos": 1648364}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Were you at the opera yesterday? Yes, I was.", "pos": 1648401}
{"speaker": "Countess Bola", "text": "Lucca was very good.", "pos": 1648450}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, very good,", "pos": 1648473}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "You are not going to the public meeting? They say it will be very interesting,", "pos": 1649253}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, I promised my belle-sœur to fetch her from it,", "pos": 1649354}
{"speaker": "ladies", "text": "mille choses", "pos": 1649618}
{"speaker": "porter", "text": "Where is your honor staying?", "pos": 1649701}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Of course I don’t care, but still I feel ashamed and awfully stupid,", "pos": 1649803}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I think sending him abroad is much the same as punishing a carp by putting it into the water,", "pos": 1651060}
{"speaker": "porter", "text": "Your hat, please. Long time since you’ve been. The prince put your name down yesterday. Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch is not here yet.", "pos": 1652654}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Ah! why are you late? How’s Kitty?", "pos": 1653729}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "All right; they are dining at home, all the three of them.", "pos": 1653918}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Ah, ‘Aline-Nadine,’ to be sure! There’s no room with us. Go to that table, and make haste and take a seat,", "pos": 1653979}
{"speaker": "Turovtsin", "text": "Levin, this way! For you and Oblonsky. He’ll be here directly. Oblonsky’s always late.", "pos": 1654161}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Ah, here he is!", "pos": 1654844}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Have you only just come? Good day. Had some vodka? Well, come along then.", "pos": 1654862}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "That’s in the same style as, ‘that’s a thing I can’t endure!’ You know the story? Ah, that’s exquisite! Another bottle,", "pos": 1655931}
{"speaker": "waiter", "text": "Pyotr Illyitch Vinovsky invites you to drink with him,", "pos": 1656143}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Who’s that?", "pos": 1656497}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "You met him once at my place, don’t you remember? A good-natured fellow. Ah! and here they are!", "pos": 1656524}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Very glad to meet you. I looked out for you at the election, but I was told you had gone away.", "pos": 1657412}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, I left the same day. We’ve just been talking of your horse. I congratulate you. It was very rapidly run.", "pos": 1657520}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Yes; you’ve race horses too, haven’t you?", "pos": 1657646}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, my father had; but I remember and know something about it.", "pos": 1657690}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Where have you dined?", "pos": 1657755}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We were at the second table, behind the columns.", "pos": 1657806}
{"speaker": "colonel", "text": "We’ve been celebrating his success. It’s his second Imperial prize. I wish I might have the luck at cards he has with horses. Well, why waste the precious time? I’m going to the ‘infernal regions,’", "pos": 1657857}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "That’s Yashvin,", "pos": 1658121}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Ah, Princess Marya Borissovna, she’s exquisite! Well, have we finished? Let us go.", "pos": 1658606}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Well, how do you like our Temple of Indolence? Come along, come along!", "pos": 1659177}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, I wanted to walk about and look at everything. It’s interesting.", "pos": 1659285}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Yes, it’s interesting for you. But its interest for me is quite different. You look at those little old men now, and imagine that they were shlupiks like that from their birth up.", "pos": 1659357}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "How shlupiks?", "pos": 1659653}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "I see you don’t know that name. That’s our club designation. You know the game of rolling eggs: when one’s rolled a long while it becomes a shlupik. So it is with us; one goes on coming and coming to the club, and ends by becoming a shlupik. Ah, you laugh! but we look out, for fear of dropping into it ourselves. You know Prince Tchetchensky?", "pos": 1659669}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, I don’t know him.", "pos": 1660112}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "You don’t say so! Well, Prince Tchetchensky is a well-known figure. No matter, though. He’s always playing billiards here. Only three years ago he was not a shlupik and kept up his spirits and even used to call other people shlupiks. But one day he turns up, and our porter ... you know Vassily? Why, that fat one; he’s famous for his bon mots. And so Prince Tchetchensky asks him, ‘Come, Vassily, who’s here? Any shlupiks here yet?’ And he says, ‘You’re the third.’ Yes, my dear boy, that he did!", "pos": 1660136}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Prince, please come, we’re ready,", "pos": 1661559}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "It’s not that she’s dull; but this undefined, this unsettled position,", "pos": 1662060}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Levin. Levin, don’t go. This is a true friend of mine—almost my greatest friend. You have become even closer and dearer to me. And I want you, and I know you ought, to be friends, and great friends, because you’re both splendid fellows.", "pos": 1662212}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Well, there’s nothing for us now but to kiss and be friends,", "pos": 1662788}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I’m very, very glad,", "pos": 1662978}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Waiter, a bottle of champagne,", "pos": 1663013}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "And I’m very glad,", "pos": 1663072}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Do you know, he has never met Anna? And I want above everything to take him to see her. Let us go, Levin!", "pos": 1663225}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Really? She will be very glad to see you. I should be going home at once, but I’m worried about Yashvin, and I want to stay on till he finishes.", "pos": 1663372}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why, is he losing?", "pos": 1663546}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He keeps losing, and I’m the only friend that can restrain him.", "pos": 1663567}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, what do you say to pyramids? Levin, will you play? Capital! Get the table ready,", "pos": 1663633}
{"speaker": "the marker", "text": "It has been ready a long while,", "pos": 1663773}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, let us begin.", "pos": 1663931}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, let us go to Anna’s, then. At once? Eh? She is at home. I promised her long ago to bring you. Where were you meaning to spend the evening?", "pos": 1664520}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, nowhere specially. I promised Sviazhsky to go to the Society of Agriculture. By all means, let us go,", "pos": 1664667}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Very good; come along. Find out if my carriage is here,", "pos": 1664787}
{"speaker": "the porter", "text": "Oblonsky’s carriage!", "pos": 1665154}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "How glad I am, that you should know her! You know Dolly has long wished for it. And Lvov’s been to see her, and often goes. Though she is my sister. I don’t hesitate to say that she’s a remarkable woman. But you will see. Her position is very painful, especially now.", "pos": 1665963}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Why especially now?", "pos": 1666275}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "We are carrying on negotiations with her husband about a divorce. And he’s agreed; but there are difficulties in regard to the son, and the business, which ought to have been arranged long ago, has been dragging on for three months past. As soon as the divorce is over, she will marry Vronsky. How stupid these old ceremonies are, that no one believes in, and which only prevent people being comfortable! Well, then their position will be as regular as mine, as yours.", "pos": 1666297}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "What is the difficulty?", "pos": 1666798}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Oh, it’s a long and tedious story! The whole business is in such an anomalous position with us. But the point is she has been for three months in Moscow, where everyone knows her, waiting for the divorce; she goes out nowhere, sees no woman except Dolly, because, do you understand, she doesn’t care to have people come as a favor. That fool Princess Varvara, even she has left her, considering this a breach of propriety. Well, you see, in such a position any other woman would not have found resources in herself. But you’ll see how she has arranged her life—how calm, how dignified she is. To the left, in the crescent opposite the church! Phew! how hot it is!", "pos": 1666836}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But she has a daughter: no doubt she’s busy looking after her?", "pos": 1667651}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "I believe you picture every woman simply as a female, une couveuse. If she’s occupied, it must be with her children. No, she brings her up capitally, I believe, but one doesn’t hear about her. She’s busy, in the first place, with what she writes. I see you’re smiling ironically, but you’re wrong. She’s writing a children’s book, and doesn’t talk about it to anyone, but she read it to me and I gave the manuscript to Vorkuev ... you know the publisher ... and he’s an author himself too, I fancy. He understands those things, and he says it’s a remarkable piece of work. But are you fancying she’s an authoress?—not a bit of it. She’s a woman with a heart, before everything, but you’ll see. Now she has a little English girl with her, and a whole family she’s looking after.", "pos": 1667728}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, something in a philanthropic way?", "pos": 1668536}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Why, you will look at everything in the worst light. It’s not from philanthropy, it’s from the heart. They—that is, Vronsky—had a trainer, an Englishman, first-rate in his own line, but a drunkard. He’s completely given up to drink—delirium tremens—and the family were cast on the world. She saw them, helped them, got more and more interested in them, and now the whole family is on her hands. But not by way of patronage, you know, helping with money; she’s herself preparing the boys in Russian for the high school, and she’s taken the little girl to live with her. But you’ll see her for yourself.", "pos": 1668576}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Where are they?", "pos": 1669855}
{"speaker": "footman", "text": "In the study.", "pos": 1669873}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I am delighted!", "pos": 1670998}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I am delighted, delighted. I have known you and liked you for a long while, both from your friendship with Stiva and for your wife’s sake.... I knew her for a very short time, but she left on me the impression of an exquisite flower, simply a flower. And to think she will soon be a mother! Ivan Petrovitch and I settled in Alexey’s study, just so as to be able to smoke", "pos": 1671969}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "How are you feeling today?", "pos": 1672899}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh, nothing. Nerves, as usual.", "pos": 1672951}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, isn’t it extraordinarily fine?", "pos": 1672984}
{"speaker": "Vorkuev", "text": "I have never seen a better portrait. And extraordinarily like, isn’t it?", "pos": 1673098}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "We were just talking, Ivan Petrovitch and I, of Vashtchenkov’s last pictures. Have you seen them?", "pos": 1673451}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, I have seen them,", "pos": 1673551}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "But, I beg your pardon, I interrupted you ... you were saying?...", "pos": 1673592}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "She was here yesterday. She was very indignant with the high school people on Grisha’s account. The Latin teacher, it seems, had been unfair to him. Yes, I have seen his pictures. I didn’t care for them very much,", "pos": 1673702}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Please order the tea in the drawing-room,", "pos": 1676065}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, how did she get through her examination?", "pos": 1676160}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Splendidly! She’s a very gifted child and a sweet character.", "pos": 1676236}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "It will end in your loving her more than your own.", "pos": 1676299}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "There a man speaks. In love there’s no more nor less. I love my daughter with one love, and her with another.", "pos": 1676352}
{"speaker": "Vorkuev", "text": "I was just telling Anna Arkadyevna, that if she were to put a hundredth part of the energy she devotes to this English girl to the public question of the education of Russian children, she would be doing a great and useful work.", "pos": 1676464}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, but I can’t help it; I couldn’t do it. Count Alexey Kirillovitch urged me very much he urged me to take up the school in the village. I visited it several times. The children were very nice, but I could not feel drawn to the work. You speak of energy. Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there’s no forcing it. I took to this child—I could not myself say why.", "pos": 1676711}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I quite understand that. It’s impossible to give one’s heart to a school or such institutions in general, and I believe that’s just why philanthropic institutions always give such poor results.", "pos": 1677482}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, yes. Je n’ai pas le cœur assez large to love a whole asylum of horrid little girls. Cela ne m’a jamais réussi. There are so many women who have made themselves une position sociale in that way. And now more than ever, now when I have such need of some occupation, I cannot. I know about you, that you’re not a public-spirited citizen, and I have defended you to the best of my ability.", "pos": 1677741}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "How have you defended me?", "pos": 1678442}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh, according to the attacks made on you. But won’t you have some tea?", "pos": 1678470}
{"speaker": "Vorkuev", "text": "Give it to me, Anna Arkadyevna. It’s well worth taking up.", "pos": 1678589}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Oh, no, it’s all so sketchy.", "pos": 1678687}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "I told him about it,", "pos": 1678718}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "You shouldn’t have. My writing is something after the fashion of those little baskets and carving which Liza Mertsalova used to sell me from the prisons. She had the direction of the prison department in that society, and they were miracles of patience, the work of those poor wretches.", "pos": 1678799}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "About her divorce, about Vronsky, and what he’s doing at the club, about me?", "pos": 1679970}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Good-bye. I am very glad que la glace est rompue. Tell your wife that I love her as before, and that if she cannot pardon me my position, then my wish for her is that she may never pardon it. To pardon it, one must go through what I have gone through, and may God spare her that.", "pos": 1681412}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Certainly, yes, I will tell her....", "pos": 1681820}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, didn’t I tell you?", "pos": 1682017}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, an extraordinary woman! It’s not her cleverness, but she has such wonderful depth of feeling. I’m awfully sorry for her!", "pos": 1682118}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Now, please God, everything will soon be settled. Well, well, don’t be hard on people in future. Good-bye; we don’t go the same way.", "pos": 1682269}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, we must sell it at five and a half if we can’t get more. It’s extraordinary how all one’s time is taken up here. Today, again, I’ve not been to the court, but today I’ve certainly not had time.", "pos": 1683198}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Well, and what have you been doing?", "pos": 1684521}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, I’m very glad I met Vronsky. I felt quite at ease and natural with him. You understand, I shall try not to see him, but I’m glad that this awkwardness is all over. We talk about the peasants drinking; I don’t know which drinks most, the peasantry or our own class; the peasants do on holidays, but....", "pos": 1684840}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Well, and then where did you go?", "pos": 1685414}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Stiva urged me awfully to go and see Anna Arkadyevna.", "pos": 1685449}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh!", "pos": 1685842}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I’m sure you won’t be angry at my going. Stiva begged me to, and Dolly wished it,", "pos": 1685866}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, no!", "pos": 1685965}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "She is a very sweet, very, very unhappy, good woman,", "pos": 1686045}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Yes, of course, she is very much to be pitied. Whom was your letter from?", "pos": 1686191}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "What? what is it?", "pos": 1686492}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "You’re in love with that hateful woman; she has bewitched you! I saw it in your eyes. Yes, yes! What can it all lead to? You were drinking at the club, drinking and gambling, and then you went ... to her of all people! No, we must go away.... I shall go away tomorrow.", "pos": 1686547}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "If I have so much effect on others, on this man, who loves his home and his wife, why is it he is so cold to me?... not cold exactly, he loves me, I know that! But something new is drawing us apart now. Why wasn’t he here all the evening? He told Stiva to say he could not leave Yashvin, and must watch over his play. Is Yashvin a child? But supposing it’s true. He never tells a lie. But there’s something else in it if it’s true. He is glad of an opportunity of showing me that he has other duties; I know that, I submit to that. But why prove that to me? He wants to show me that his love for me is not to interfere with his freedom. But I need no proofs, I need love. He ought to understand all the bitterness of this life for me here in Moscow. Is this life? I am not living, but waiting for an event, which is continually put off and put off. No answer again! And Stiva says he cannot go to Alexey Alexandrovitch. And I can’t write again. I can do nothing, can begin nothing, can alter nothing; I hold myself in, I wait, inventing amusements for myself—the English family, writing, reading—but it’s all nothing but a sham, it’s all the same as morphine. He ought to feel for me,", "pos": 1688147}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Well, you’ve not been dull? What a terrible passion it is—gambling!", "pos": 1689914}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "No, I’ve not been dull; I’ve learned long ago not to be dull. Stiva has been here and Levin.", "pos": 1690040}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Yes, they meant to come and see you. Well, how did you like Levin?", "pos": 1690135}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Very much. They have not long been gone. What was Yashvin doing?", "pos": 1690238}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "He was winning—seventeen thousand. I got him away. He had really started home, but he went back again, and now he’s losing.", "pos": 1690305}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Then what did you stay for? You told Stiva you were staying on to get Yashvin away. And you have left him there.", "pos": 1690431}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "In the first place, I did not ask him to give you any message; and secondly, I never tell lies. But what’s the chief point, I wanted to stay, and I stayed. Anna, what is it for, why will you?", "pos": 1690726}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Of course you wanted to stay, and you stayed. You do everything you want to. But what do you tell me that for? With what object? Does anyone contest your rights? But you want to be right, and you’re welcome to be right. For you it’s a matter of obstinacy, simply obstinacy. For you it’s a question of whether you keep the upper hand of me, while for me.... If you knew what it is for me! When I feel as I do now that you are hostile, yes, hostile to me, if you knew what this means for me! If you knew how I feel on the brink of calamity at this instant, how afraid I am of myself!", "pos": 1691250}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "But what are you talking about? What is it for? Do I seek amusements outside our home? Don’t I avoid the society of women?", "pos": 1692182}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Well, yes! If that were all!", "pos": 1692418}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Come, tell me what I ought to do to give you peace of mind? I am ready to do anything to make you happy, what wouldn’t I do to save you from distress of any sort, as now, Anna!", "pos": 1692459}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "It’s nothing, nothing! I don’t know myself whether it’s the solitary life, my nerves.... Come, don’t let us talk of it. What about the race? You haven’t told me!", "pos": 1692696}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "What is it?... what is it? Kitty! What is it?", "pos": 1694756}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Nothing. I felt unwell,", "pos": 1694828}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "What? has it begun? We ought to send....", "pos": 1694981}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "No, no. It’s sure to be nothing. I was rather unwell, only a little. It’s all over now.", "pos": 1695089}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Kostya, don’t be frightened. It’s all right. But I fancy.... We ought to send for Lizaveta Petrovna. Please, don’t be frightened, it’s all right. I’m not a bit afraid,", "pos": 1695975}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "If not I, who is to blame for it? I have sent to mamma. You go quickly to fetch Lizaveta Petrovna ... Kostya!... Nothing, it’s over. Well, go now; Pasha’s coming. I am all right.", "pos": 1697703}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I’m going for the doctor. They have sent for Lizaveta Petrovna, but I’ll go on there too. Isn’t there anything wanted? Yes, shall I go to Dolly’s? Yes, yes. Do go,", "pos": 1698936}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, that is she. Lord have mercy on us! pardon us! aid us!", "pos": 1699400}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Thank God! thank God!", "pos": 1700365}
{"speaker": "Lizaveta Petrovna", "text": "For two hours, then? Not more? You should let Pyotr Dmitrievitch know, but don’t hurry him. And get some opium at the chemist’s.", "pos": 1700555}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "So you think that it may go on well? Lord have mercy on us and help us!", "pos": 1700702}
{"speaker": "footman", "text": "he had been up late, and had given orders not to be waked, but would get up soon.", "pos": 1700975}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Don’t be in a hurry or let anything slip,", "pos": 1701509}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Pyotr Dmitrievitch, Pyotr Dmitrievitch! For God’s sake, forgive me! See me as you are. It’s been going on more than two hours already.", "pos": 1703719}
{"speaker": "doctor", "text": "In a minute; in a minute!", "pos": 1703906}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "For one instant.", "pos": 1704026}
{"speaker": "doctor", "text": "In a minute.", "pos": 1704045}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Pyotr Dmitrievitch! These people have no conscience. Combing his hair, while we’re dying!", "pos": 1704202}
{"speaker": "doctor", "text": "Good morning! There’s no hurry. Well now? Oh, you needn’t be in any hurry. You don’t understand, you know. I’m certain I’m not wanted, still I’ve promised, and if you like, I’ll come. But there’s no hurry. Please sit down; won’t you have some coffee? I know, I know. I’m a married man myself; and at these moments we husbands are very much to be pitied. I’ve a patient whose husband always takes refuge in the stables on such occasions.", "pos": 1704407}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But what do you think, Pyotr Dmitrievitch? Do you suppose it may go all right?", "pos": 1705301}
{"speaker": "doctor", "text": "Everything points to a favorable issue.", "pos": 1705382}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "So you’ll come immediately?", "pos": 1705424}
{"speaker": "doctor", "text": "In an hour’s time.", "pos": 1705532}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, for mercy’s sake!", "pos": 1705553}
{"speaker": "doctor", "text": "Well, let me drink my coffee, anyway. The Turks are really getting beaten, though. Did you read yesterday’s telegrams?", "pos": 1705577}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, I can’t stand it! So you’ll be with us in a quarter of an hour.", "pos": 1705791}
{"speaker": "doctor", "text": "In half an hour.", "pos": 1705887}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "On your honor?", "pos": 1705906}
{"speaker": "Princess Shtcherbatskaya", "text": "Well, my dear Lizaveta Petrovna?", "pos": 1706155}
{"speaker": "Lizaveta Petrovna", "text": "She’s going on well, persuade her to lie down. She will be easier so.", "pos": 1706296}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Lord, have mercy on us, and succor us!", "pos": 1707080}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Lord, have mercy on us, and succor us!", "pos": 1710931}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Lord, have mercy on us, and help us!", "pos": 1712233}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I am worrying you,", "pos": 1712679}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I suppose it must be so,", "pos": 1713575}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Don’t go, don’t go! I’m not afraid, I’m not afraid! Mamma, take my earrings. They bother me. You’re not afraid? Quick, quick, Lizaveta Petrovna.... Oh, this is awful! I’m dying, I’m dying! Go away!", "pos": 1714379}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "It’s nothing, it’s nothing, it’s all right,", "pos": 1714816}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Doctor! What is it? What is it? By God!", "pos": 1715313}
{"speaker": "doctor", "text": "It’s the end,", "pos": 1715410}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "It’s over!", "pos": 1716283}
{"speaker": "Lizaveta Petrovna", "text": "Alive! alive! And a boy too! Set your mind at rest!", "pos": 1717388}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Mamma, is it true?", "pos": 1717532}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Send me word if I can see her,", "pos": 1719748}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Very well, in a minute,", "pos": 1719798}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I have had a nap, Kostya! and I am so comfortable now. Give him to me. Give him to me, Lizaveta Petrovna, and he shall look at him.", "pos": 1720602}
{"speaker": "Lizaveta Petrovna", "text": "To be sure, his papa shall look at him. Wait a minute, we’ll make him tidy first,", "pos": 1720849}
{"speaker": "Lizaveta Petrovna", "text": "Don’t be frightened, don’t be frightened!", "pos": 1721864}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Give him to me! give him to me!", "pos": 1722197}
{"speaker": "Lizaveta Petrovna", "text": "What are you thinking of, Katerina Alexandrovna, you mustn’t move like that! Wait a minute. I’ll give him to you. Here we’re showing papa what a fine fellow we are! A splendid baby! Come, that’s enough, that’s enough!", "pos": 1722283}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Look, now,", "pos": 1723166}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Clearly I’ve been napping, and they’ve overlooked me,", "pos": 1724964}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, that’s very true, that’s very true in particular cases, but still the principle of our day is freedom.", "pos": 1727444}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Yes, but I lay down another principle, embracing the principle of freedom. I don’t advocate protection for the sake of private interests, but for the public weal, and for the lower and upper classes equally. But they cannot grasp that, they are taken up now with personal interests, and carried away by phrases.", "pos": 1727706}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Oh, by the way. I wanted to ask you, some time when you see Pomorsky, to drop him a hint that I should be very glad to get that new appointment of secretary of the committee of the amalgamated agency of the southern railways and banking companies.", "pos": 1728757}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Of course, I can mention it to him; but what is your reason precisely for wishing to obtain the appointment?", "pos": 1729570}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "It’s a good salary, rising to nine thousand, and my means....", "pos": 1729681}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Nine thousand! I consider, and I have embodied my views in a note on the subject, that in our day these immense salaries are evidence of the unsound economic assiette of our finances.", "pos": 1729745}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "But what’s to be done? Suppose a bank director gets ten thousand—well, he’s worth it; or an engineer gets twenty thousand—after all, it’s a growing thing, you know!", "pos": 1730187}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I assume that a salary is the price paid for a commodity, and it ought to conform with the law of supply and demand. If the salary is fixed without any regard for that law, as, for instance, when I see two engineers leaving college together, both equally well trained and efficient, and one getting forty thousand while the other is satisfied with two; or when I see lawyers and hussars, having no special qualifications, appointed directors of banking companies with immense salaries, I conclude that the salary is not fixed in accordance with the law of supply and demand, but simply through personal interest. And this is an abuse of great gravity in itself, and one that reacts injuriously on the government service. I consider....", "pos": 1730382}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes; but you must agree that it’s a new institution of undoubted utility that’s being started. After all, you know, it’s a growing thing! What they lay particular stress on is the thing being carried on honestly,", "pos": 1731184}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Honesty is only a negative qualification,", "pos": 1731523}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, you’ll do me a great service, anyway, by putting in a word to Pomorsky—just in the way of conversation....", "pos": 1731576}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "But I fancy it’s more in Volgarinov’s hands,", "pos": 1731719}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Volgarinov has fully assented, as far as he’s concerned,", "pos": 1731794}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Now there is something I want to talk about, and you know what it is. About Anna,", "pos": 1733466}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "What is it exactly that you want from me?", "pos": 1733812}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "A definite settlement, Alexey Alexandrovitch, some settlement of the position. I’m appealing to you not as an injured husband, not as a statesman but simply as a man, and a good-hearted man and a Christian. You must have pity on her,", "pos": 1733913}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "That is, in what way precisely?", "pos": 1734305}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, pity on her. If you had seen her as I have!—I have been spending all the winter with her—you would have pity on her. Her position is awful, simply awful!", "pos": 1734360}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I had imagined, that Anna Arkadyevna had everything she had desired for herself.", "pos": 1734521}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Oh, Alexey Alexandrovitch, for heaven’s sake, don’t let us indulge in recriminations! What is past is past, and you know what she wants and is waiting for—divorce.", "pos": 1734671}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "But I believe Anna Arkadyevna refuses a divorce, if I make it a condition to leave me my son. I replied in that sense, and supposed that the matter was ended. I consider it at an end,", "pos": 1734836}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "But, for heaven’s sake, don’t get hot! The matter is not ended. If you will allow me to recapitulate, it was like this: when you parted, you were as magnanimous as could possibly be; you were ready to give her everything—freedom, divorce even. She appreciated that. No, don’t think that. She did appreciate it—to such a degree that at the first moment, feeling how she had wronged you, she did not consider and could not consider everything. She gave up everything. But experience, time, have shown that her position is unbearable, impossible.", "pos": 1735054}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "The life of Anna Arkadyevna can have no interest for me,", "pos": 1735664}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Allow me to disbelieve that. Her position is intolerable for her, and of no benefit to anyone whatever. She has deserved it, you will say. She knows that and asks you for nothing; she says plainly that she dare not ask you. But I, all of us, her relatives, all who love her, beg you, entreat you. Why should she suffer? Who is any the better for it?", "pos": 1735775}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "Excuse me, you seem to put me in the position of the guilty party,", "pos": 1736165}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Oh, no, oh, no, not at all! please understand me. All I say is this: her position is intolerable, and it might be alleviated by you, and you will lose nothing by it. I will arrange it all for you, so that you’ll not notice it. You did promise it, you know.", "pos": 1736266}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "The promise was given before. And I had supposed that the question of my son had settled the matter. Besides, I had hoped that Anna Arkadyevna had enough generosity....", "pos": 1736656}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "She leaves it all to your generosity. She begs, she implores one thing of you—to extricate her from the impossible position in which she is placed. She does not ask for her son now. Alexey Alexandrovitch, you are a good man. Put yourself in her position for a minute. The question of divorce for her in her position is a question of life and death. If you had not promised it once, she would have reconciled herself to her position, she would have gone on living in the country. But you promised it, and she wrote to you, and moved to Moscow. And here she’s been for six months in Moscow, where every chance meeting cuts her to the heart, every day expecting an answer. Why, it’s like keeping a condemned criminal for six months with the rope round his neck, promising him perhaps death, perhaps mercy. Have pity on her, and I will undertake to arrange everything. Vos scrupules....", "pos": 1736917}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I am not talking about that, about that.... But, perhaps, I promised what I had no right to promise.", "pos": 1737802}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "So you go back from your promise?", "pos": 1737955}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I have never refused to do all that is possible, but I want time to consider how much of what I promised is possible.", "pos": 1737991}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "No, Alexey Alexandrovitch! She’s unhappy as only an unhappy woman can be, and you cannot refuse in such....", "pos": 1738111}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "As much of what I promised as is possible. Vous professez d’être libre penseur. But I as a believer cannot, in a matter of such gravity, act in opposition to the Christian law.", "pos": 1738273}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "But in Christian societies and among us, as far as I’m aware, divorce is allowed. Divorce is sanctioned even by our church. And we see....", "pos": 1738452}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "It is allowed, but not in the sense....", "pos": 1738621}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Alexey Alexandrovitch, you are not like yourself. Wasn’t it you (and didn’t we all appreciate it in you?) who forgave everything, and moved simply by Christian feeling was ready to make any sacrifice? You said yourself: if a man take thy coat, give him thy cloak also, and now....", "pos": 1738663}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I beg. I beg you to drop this ... to drop ... this subject!", "pos": 1738984}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Oh, no! Oh, forgive me, forgive me if I have wounded you, but like a messenger I have simply performed the commission given me.", "pos": 1739155}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I must think it over and seek for guidance. The day after tomorrow I will give you a final answer,", "pos": 1739435}
{"speaker": "Korney", "text": "Sergey Alexyevitch!", "pos": 1739658}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Who’s Sergey Alexyevitch? Ah, Seryozha! Sergey Alexyevitch! I thought it was the director of a department. Anna asked me to see him too,", "pos": 1739680}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "He was very ill after that interview with his mother, which we had not foreseen. Indeed, we feared for his life. But with rational treatment, and sea-bathing in the summer, he regained his strength, and now, by the doctor’s advice, I have let him go to school. And certainly the companionship of school has had a good effect on him, and he is perfectly well, and making good progress.", "pos": 1740558}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "What a fine fellow he’s grown! He’s not Seryozha now, but quite full-fledged Sergey Alexyevitch!", "pos": 1740975}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Do you remember me?", "pos": 1741687}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "Yes, mon oncle,", "pos": 1741751}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Well, and how are you getting on?", "pos": 1741884}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "We have a railway now. It’s like this, do you see: two sit on a bench—they’re the passengers; and one stands up straight on the bench. And all are harnessed to it by their arms or by their belts, and they run through all the rooms—the doors are left open beforehand. Well, and it’s pretty hard work being the conductor!", "pos": 1743633}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "That’s the one that stands?", "pos": 1744000}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "Yes, you want pluck for it, and cleverness too, especially when they stop all of a sudden, or someone falls down.", "pos": 1744069}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, that must be a serious matter. Do you remember your mother?", "pos": 1744185}
{"speaker": "Seryozha", "text": "No, I don’t. If I had hurt myself, nobody should have found it out, that’s certain. Well, what is it, then? Leave me alone! If I remember, or if I don’t remember?... what business is it of his? Why should I remember? Leave me in peace!", "pos": 1744511}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "You’re friendly, I fancy, with Mordvinsky; you might do me a favor: say a word to him, please, for me. There’s an appointment I should like to get—secretary of the agency....", "pos": 1748028}
{"speaker": "Bartnyansky", "text": "Oh, I shan’t remember all that, if you tell it to me.... But what possesses you to have to do with railways and Jews?... Take it as you will, it’s a low business.", "pos": 1748205}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "I want the money, I’ve nothing to live on.", "pos": 1748491}
{"speaker": "Bartnyansky", "text": "You’re living, aren’t you?", "pos": 1748536}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, but in debt.", "pos": 1748565}
{"speaker": "Bartnyansky", "text": "Are you, though? Heavily?", "pos": 1748585}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Very heavily: twenty thousand.", "pos": 1748647}
{"speaker": "Bartnyansky", "text": "Oh, lucky fellow! My debts mount up to a million and a half, and I’ve nothing, and still I can live, as you see!", "pos": 1748726}
{"speaker": "Pyotr Oblonsky", "text": "We don’t know the way to live here. I spent the summer in Baden, and you wouldn’t believe it, I felt quite a young man. At a glimpse of a pretty woman, my thoughts.... One dines and drinks a glass of wine, and feels strong and ready for anything. I came home to Russia—had to see my wife, and, what’s more, go to my country place; and there, you’d hardly believe it, in a fortnight I’d got into a dressing gown and given up dressing for dinner. Needn’t say I had no thoughts left for pretty women. I became quite an old gentleman. There was nothing left for me but to think of my eternal salvation. I went off to Paris—I was as right as could be at once.", "pos": 1749852}
{"speaker": "Betsy", "text": "Ah, so you’re here! Well, and what news of your poor sister? You needn’t look at me like that. Ever since they’ve all turned against her, all those who’re a thousand times worse than she, I’ve thought she did a very fine thing. I can’t forgive Vronsky for not letting me know when she was in Petersburg. I’d have gone to see her and gone about with her everywhere. Please give her my love. Come, tell me about her.", "pos": 1751605}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, her position is very difficult; she....", "pos": 1752064}
{"speaker": "Princess Myakaya", "text": "She’s done what they all do, except me—only they hide it. But she wouldn’t be deceitful, and she did a fine thing. And she did better still in throwing up that crazy brother-in-law of yours. You must excuse me. Everybody used to say he was so clever, so very clever; I was the only one that said he was a fool. Now that he’s so thick with Lidia Ivanovna and Landau, they all say he’s crazy, and I should prefer not to agree with everybody, but this time I can’t help it.", "pos": 1752334}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Oh, do please explain, what does it mean? Yesterday I was seeing him on my sister’s behalf, and I asked him to give me a final answer. He gave me no answer, and said he would think it over. But this morning, instead of an answer, I received an invitation from Countess Lidia Ivanovna for this evening.", "pos": 1752806}
{"speaker": "Princess Myakaya", "text": "Ah, so that’s it, that’s it! they’re going to ask Landau what he’s to say.", "pos": 1753138}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Ask Landau? What for? Who or what’s Landau?", "pos": 1753250}
{"speaker": "Princess Myakaya", "text": "What! you don’t know Jules Landau, le fameux Jules Landau, le clairvoyant? He’s crazy too, but on him your sister’s fate depends. See what comes of living in the provinces—you know nothing about anything. Landau, do you see, was a commis in a shop in Paris, and he went to a doctor’s; and in the doctor’s waiting room he fell asleep, and in his sleep he began giving advice to all the patients. And wonderful advice it was! Then the wife of Yury Meledinsky—you know, the invalid?—heard of this Landau, and had him to see her husband. And he cured her husband, though I can’t say that I see he did him much good, for he’s just as feeble a creature as ever he was, but they believed in him, and took him along with them and brought him to Russia. Here there’s been a general rush to him, and he’s begun doctoring everyone. He cured Countess Bezzubova, and she took such a fancy to him that she adopted him. Adopted him? Yes, as her son. He’s not Landau any more now, but Count Bezzubov. That’s neither here nor there, though; but Lidia—I’m very fond of her, but she has a screw loose somewhere—has lost her heart to this Landau now, and nothing is settled now in her house or Alexey Alexandrovitch’s without him, and so your sister’s fate is now in the hands of Landau, alias Count Bezzubov.", "pos": 1753296}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Who else is with the countess?—a Frenchman? Princess Myakaya guessed right. Curious! It would be quite as well, though, to get on friendly terms with her. She has immense influence. If she would say a word to Pomorsky, the thing would be a certainty.", "pos": 1754781}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "I am very glad to see you, particularly today. I introduced you to him as Landau, but he is really Count Bezzubov, as you’re probably aware. Only he does not like the title.", "pos": 1756331}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, I heard so, they say he completely cured Countess Bezzubova.", "pos": 1756702}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "She was here today, poor thing! This separation is awful for her. It’s such a blow to her!", "pos": 1756802}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "And he positively is going?", "pos": 1756950}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "Yes, he’s going to Paris. He heard a voice yesterday,", "pos": 1757011}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Ah, a voice!", "pos": 1757129}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "I’ve known you for a long while, and am very glad to make a closer acquaintance with you. Les amis de nos amis sont nos amis. But to be a true friend, one must enter into the spiritual state of one’s friend, and I fear that you are not doing so in the case of Alexey Alexandrovitch. You understand what I mean?", "pos": 1757481}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "In part, countess, I understand the position of Alexey Alexandrovitch....", "pos": 1757835}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "The change is not in his external position, his heart is changed, a new heart has been vouchsafed him, and I fear you don’t fully apprehend the change that has taken place in him.", "pos": 1758023}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Oh, well, in general outlines I can conceive the change. We have always been friendly, and now....", "pos": 1758350}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "The change that has taken place in him cannot lessen his love for his neighbors; on the contrary, that change can only intensify love in his heart. But I am afraid you do not understand me. Won’t you have some tea?", "pos": 1758695}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Not quite, countess. Of course, his misfortune....", "pos": 1758997}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "Yes, a misfortune which has proved the highest happiness, when his heart was made new, was filled full of it,", "pos": 1759050}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "I do believe I might ask her to speak to both of them. Oh, of course, countess, but I imagine such changes are a matter so private that no one, even the most intimate friend, would care to speak of them.", "pos": 1759226}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "On the contrary! We ought to speak freely and help one another.", "pos": 1759474}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, undoubtedly so, but there is such a difference of convictions, and besides....", "pos": 1759540}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "There can be no difference where it is a question of holy truth.", "pos": 1759659}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Oh, no, of course; but....", "pos": 1759726}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "I fancy he will fall asleep immediately,", "pos": 1759858}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "Don’t take any notice. I have observed.... that Moscow people, especially the men, are more indifferent to religion than anyone.", "pos": 1760227}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Oh, no, countess, I thought Moscow people had the reputation of being the firmest in the faith,", "pos": 1760711}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "But as far as I can make out, you are unfortunately one of the indifferent ones,", "pos": 1760839}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "How anyone can be indifferent!", "pos": 1760985}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "I am not so much indifferent on that subject as I am waiting in suspense. I hardly think that the time for such questions has come yet for me.", "pos": 1761039}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "We can never tell whether the time has come for us or not. We ought not to think whether we are ready or not ready. God’s grace is not guided by human considerations: sometimes it comes not to those that strive for it, and comes to those that are unprepared, like Saul.", "pos": 1761308}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "No, I believe it won’t be just yet,", "pos": 1761619}
{"speaker": "Landau", "text": "Do you allow me to listen?", "pos": 1761774}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "Oh, yes; I did not want to disturb you, sit here with us.", "pos": 1761813}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "One has only not to close one’s eyes to shut out the light,", "pos": 1761920}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "Ah, if you knew the happiness we know, feeling His presence ever in our hearts!", "pos": 1762013}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "But a man may feel himself unworthy sometimes to rise to that height,", "pos": 1762148}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "That is, you mean that sin keeps him back? But that is a false idea. There is no sin for believers, their sin has been atoned for. Pardon. Tomorrow at the Grand Duchess’s, say. For the believer sin is not,", "pos": 1762483}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Yes, but faith without works is dead,", "pos": 1762843}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "There you have it—from the epistle of St. James. What harm has been done by the false interpretation of that passage! Nothing holds men back from belief like that misinterpretation. ‘I have not works, so I cannot believe,’ though all the while that is not said. But the very opposite is said.", "pos": 1763002}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "Striving for God, saving the soul by fasting, those are the crude ideas of our monks.... Yet that is nowhere said. It is far simpler and easier,", "pos": 1763470}
{"speaker": "Alexey Alexandrovitch", "text": "We are saved by Christ who suffered for us. We are saved by faith,", "pos": 1763848}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "Vous comprenez l’anglais? I want to read him ‘Safe and Happy,’ or ‘Under the Wing,’ It’s very short. In it is described the way by which faith can be reached, and the happiness, above all earthly bliss, with which it fills the soul. The believer cannot be unhappy because he is not alone. But you will see. Madame Borozdina? Tell her, tomorrow at two o’clock. Yes, that is how true faith acts. You know Marie Sanina? You know about her trouble? She lost her only child. She was in despair. And what happened? She found this comforter, and she thanks God now for the death of her child. Such is the happiness faith brings!", "pos": 1763990}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Oh, yes, that is most.... No, I see I’d better not ask her about anything today. If only I can get out of this without putting my foot in it!", "pos": 1765032}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "It will be dull for you, you don’t know English, but it’s short.", "pos": 1765300}
{"speaker": "Landau", "text": "Oh, I shall understand,", "pos": 1765418}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "Mon ami, donnez-lui la main. Vous voyez? Sh! Not at home.", "pos": 1767746}
{"speaker": "Landau", "text": "Que la personne qui est arrivée la dernière, celle qui demande, qu’elle sorte! Qu’elle sorte!", "pos": 1768593}
{"speaker": "Countess Lidia Ivanovna", "text": "Vous m’excuserez, mais vous voyez.... Revenez vers dix heures, encore mieux demain.", "pos": 1768742}
{"speaker": "Landau", "text": "Qu’elle sorte! C’est moi, n’est-ce pas?", "pos": 1768828}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I don’t expect you to understand me, my feelings, as anyone who loved me might, but simple delicacy I did expect,", "pos": 1775377}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I feel no interest in your infatuation over this girl, that’s true, because I see it’s unnatural.", "pos": 1775692}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I am very sorry that nothing but what’s coarse and material is comprehensible and natural to you. I’m irritable, I’m insanely jealous. I will make it up with him, and we’ll go away to the country; there I shall be more at peace. Unnatural! I know what he meant; he meant—unnatural, not loving my own daughter, to love another person’s child. What does he know of love for children, of my love for Seryozha, whom I’ve sacrificed for him? But that wish to wound me! No, he loves another woman, it must be so. Can it be impossible? Can it be beyond me to control myself? He’s truthful, he’s honest, he loves me. I love him, and in a few days the divorce will come. What more do I want? I want peace of mind and trust, and I will take the blame on myself. Yes, now when he comes in, I will tell him I was wrong, though I was not wrong, and we will go away tomorrow. Well, was it nice?", "pos": 1776012}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Just as usual. What do I see? Come, that’s good!", "pos": 1778070}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, we must go. I went out for a drive, and it was so fine I longed to be in the country. There’s nothing to keep you, is there?", "pos": 1778373}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "It’s the one thing I desire. I’ll be back directly, and we’ll talk it over; I only want to change my coat. Order some tea.", "pos": 1778505}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "You know it came to me almost like an inspiration. Why wait here for the divorce? Won’t it be just the same in the country? I can’t wait any longer! I don’t want to go on hoping, I don’t want to hear anything about the divorce. I have made up my mind it shall not have any more influence on my life. Do you agree?", "pos": 1779179}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Oh, yes!", "pos": 1779507}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "What did you do? Who was there?", "pos": 1779566}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "The dinner was first rate, and the boat race, and it was all pleasant enough, but in Moscow they can never do anything without something ridicule. A lady of a sort appeared on the scene, teacher of swimming to the Queen of Sweden, and gave us an exhibition of her skill.", "pos": 1779668}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "How? did she swim?", "pos": 1779941}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "In an absurd red costume de natation; she was old and hideous too. So when shall we go?", "pos": 1779984}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "What an absurd fancy! Why, did she swim in some special way, then?", "pos": 1780074}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "There was absolutely nothing in it. That’s just what I say, it was awfully stupid. Well, then, when do you think of going?", "pos": 1780169}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "When? Why, the sooner the better! By tomorrow we shan’t be ready. The day after tomorrow.", "pos": 1780367}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Yes ... oh, no, wait a minute! The day after tomorrow’s Sunday, I have to be at maman’s,", "pos": 1780459}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Can’t you go tomorrow?", "pos": 1780940}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Well, no! The deeds and the money for the business I’m going there for I can’t get by tomorrow,", "pos": 1780975}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "If so, we won’t go at all.", "pos": 1781086}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "But why so?", "pos": 1781115}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I shall not go later. Monday or never!", "pos": 1781129}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "What for? Why, there’s no meaning in it!", "pos": 1781170}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "There’s no meaning in it to you, because you care nothing for me. You don’t care to understand my life. The one thing that I cared for here was Hannah. You say it’s affectation. Why, you said yesterday that I don’t love my daughter, that I love this English girl, that it’s unnatural. I should like to know what life there is for me that could be natural!", "pos": 1781253}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I never said that; I said I did not sympathize with this sudden passion.", "pos": 1781905}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "How is it, though you boast of your straightforwardness, you don’t tell the truth?", "pos": 1781980}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I never boast, and I never tell lies. It’s a great pity if you can’t respect....", "pos": 1782065}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. And if you don’t love me any more, it would be better and more honest to say so.", "pos": 1782196}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "No, this is becoming unbearable! What do you try my patience for? It has limits.", "pos": 1782347}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "What do you mean by that?", "pos": 1782617}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I mean to say.... I must ask what it is you want of me?", "pos": 1782765}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "What can I want? All I can want is that you should not desert me, as you think of doing. But that I don’t want; that’s secondary. I want love, and there is none. So then all is over.", "pos": 1782867}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Stop! sto-op! What is it all about? I said that we must put off going for three days, and on that you told me I was lying, that I was not an honorable man.", "pos": 1783131}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, and I repeat that the man who reproaches me with having sacrificed everything for me, that he’s worse than a dishonorable man—he’s a heartless man.", "pos": 1783386}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Oh, there are limits to endurance!", "pos": 1783601}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "He hates me, that’s clear. He loves another woman, that’s even clearer. I want love, and there is none. So, then, all is over. and it must be ended.", "pos": 1783677}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "No, I shan’t be ready by then myself, so then it was possible to arrange to do as I wished. No, do as you meant to do. Go into the dining-room, I’m coming directly. It’s only to turn out those things that aren’t wanted. You wouldn’t believe how distasteful these rooms have become to me. There’s nothing more awful than these chambres garnies. There’s no individuality in them, no soul. These clocks, and curtains, and, worst of all, the wallpapers—they’re a nightmare. I think of Vozdvizhenskoe as the promised land. You’re not sending the horses off yet?", "pos": 1787458}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "No, they will come after us. Where are you going to?", "pos": 1788262}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I wanted to go to Wilson’s to take some dresses to her. So it’s really to be tomorrow?", "pos": 1788317}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "By tomorrow, without fail, I will finish it all.", "pos": 1788746}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "From whom is the telegram?", "pos": 1788797}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "From Stiva,", "pos": 1788854}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Why didn’t you show it to me? What secret can there be between Stiva and me?", "pos": 1788893}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I didn’t want to show it to you, because Stiva has such a passion for telegraphing: why telegraph when nothing is settled?", "pos": 1789039}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "About the divorce?", "pos": 1789164}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Yes; but he says he has not been able to come at anything yet. He has promised a decisive answer in a day or two. But here it is; read it.", "pos": 1789185}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I said yesterday that it’s absolutely nothing to me when I get, or whether I never get, a divorce. There was not the slightest necessity to hide it from me.", "pos": 1789494}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Yashvin meant to come this morning with Voytov. I believe he’s won from Pyevtsov all and more than he can pay, about sixty thousand.", "pos": 1789766}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "No, why did you suppose that this news would affect me so, that you must even try to hide it? I said I don’t want to consider it, and I should have liked you to care as little about it as I do.", "pos": 1789917}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I care about it because I like definiteness,", "pos": 1790212}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Definiteness is not in the form but the love. What do you want it for?", "pos": 1790268}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "My God! love again. Oh, you know what for; for your sake and your children’s in the future.", "pos": 1790449}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "There won’t be children in the future.", "pos": 1790567}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "That’s a great pity,", "pos": 1790608}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "You want it for the children’s sake, but you don’t think of me?", "pos": 1790640}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Oh, I said: for your sake. Above all for your sake, because I am certain that the greater part of your irritability comes from the indefiniteness of the position.", "pos": 1791000}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, now he has laid aside all pretense, and all his cold hatred for me is apparent. The cause is not that, and, indeed, I don’t see how the cause of my irritability, as you call it, can be that I am completely in your power. What indefiniteness is there in the position? on the contrary....", "pos": 1791208}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I am very sorry that you don’t care to understand. The indefiniteness consists in your imagining that I am free.", "pos": 1791639}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "On that score you can set your mind quite at rest. I don’t care in the least what your mother thinks, and what match she wants to make for you,", "pos": 1791826}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "But we are not talking about that.", "pos": 1792341}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, that’s just what we are talking about. And let me tell you that a heartless woman, whether she’s old or not old, your mother or anyone else, is of no consequence to me, and I would not consent to know her.", "pos": 1792378}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Anna, I beg you not to speak disrespectfully of my mother.", "pos": 1792591}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "A woman whose heart does not tell her where her son’s happiness and honor lie has no heart.", "pos": 1792652}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I repeat my request that you will not speak disrespectfully of my mother, whom I respect,", "pos": 1792746}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "You don’t love your mother. That’s all talk, and talk, and talk!", "pos": 1793173}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Even if so, you must....", "pos": 1793290}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Must decide, and I have decided. Well, how are you getting on? Has your debt been paid you?", "pos": 1793317}
{"speaker": "Yashvin", "text": "Oh, pretty fair; I fancy I shan’t get it all, but I shall get a good half. And when are you off?", "pos": 1793912}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "The day after tomorrow, I think,", "pos": 1794085}
{"speaker": "Yashvin", "text": "You’ve been meaning to go so long, though.", "pos": 1794134}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "But now it’s quite decided. Don’t you feel sorry for that unlucky Pyevtsov?", "pos": 1794179}
{"speaker": "Yashvin", "text": "I’ve never asked myself the question, Anna Arkadyevna, whether I’m sorry for him or not. You see, all my fortune’s here and just now I’m a wealthy man. But today I’m going to the club, and I may come out a beggar. You see, whoever sits down to play with me—he wants to leave me without a shirt to my back, and so do I him. And so we fight it out, and that’s the pleasure of it.", "pos": 1794418}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Well, but suppose you were married, how would it be for your wife?", "pos": 1794829}
{"speaker": "Yashvin", "text": "That’s why I’m not married, and never mean to be.", "pos": 1794928}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "And Helsingfors?", "pos": 1794980}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Were you really in love?", "pos": 1795228}
{"speaker": "Yashvin", "text": "Oh heavens! ever so many times! But you see, some men can play but only so that they can always lay down their cards when the hour of a rendezvous comes, while I can take up love, but only so as not to be late for my cards in the evening. That’s how I manage things.", "pos": 1795276}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "No, I didn’t mean that, but the real thing. What do you want?", "pos": 1795545}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "To get the guarantee for Gambetta, I’ve sold him. Eh, Anna?", "pos": 1795996}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I said nothing,", "pos": 1796391}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "No, anything—only to live! Why, I love him! Why, he loves me! This has been before and will pass,", "pos": 1800725}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "There was a quarrel. Just what has happened several times. I said I had a headache, and he did not come in to see me. Tomorrow we’re going away; I must see him and get ready for the journey,", "pos": 1802175}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "That was Madame Sorokina and her daughter. They came and brought me the money and the deeds from maman. I couldn’t get them yesterday. How is your head, better? Oh, by the way, we’re going tomorrow for certain, aren’t we?", "pos": 1803395}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "You, but not I,", "pos": 1804137}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Anna, we can’t go on like this....", "pos": 1804187}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "You, but not I,", "pos": 1804224}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "This is getting unbearable!", "pos": 1804256}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "You ... you will be sorry for this,", "pos": 1804286}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "He has gone! It is over! No, that cannot be! Inquire where the count has gone,", "pos": 1805574}
{"speaker": "The servant", "text": "His honor left word that if you cared to drive out, the carriage would be back immediately.", "pos": 1806117}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Very good. Wait a minute. I’ll write a note at once. Send Mihail with the note to the stables. Make haste. I was wrong. Come back home; I must explain. For God’s sake come! I’m afraid. Why, this isn’t it, this isn’t he! Where are his blue eyes, his sweet, shy smile?", "pos": 1806211}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Can it be all over? No, it cannot be! He will come back. But how can he explain that smile, that excitement after he had been talking to her? But even if he doesn’t explain, I will believe. If I don’t believe, there’s only one thing left for me, and I can’t. By now he has received the note and is coming back. Not long, ten minutes more.... But what if he doesn’t come? No, that cannot be. He mustn’t see me with tear-stained eyes. I’ll go and wash. Yes, yes; did I do my hair or not? Yes, my hair has been done, but when I did it I can’t in the least remember. Who’s that? Why, it’s I! What is it? Why, I’m going out of my mind! Annushka,", "pos": 1807339}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You meant to go and see Darya Alexandrovna,", "pos": 1808818}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Darya Alexandrovna? Yes, I’ll go. But how could he go away, leaving me in such a state? How can he live, without making it up with me?", "pos": 1808905}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "What do you say? What!... Why, then, he has never received it! Go with this note to Countess Vronskaya’s place, you know? and bring an answer back immediately. Yes, I’m going. I absolutely must talk to you; come at once. Annushka, dear, what am I to do?", "pos": 1809751}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why fret yourself so, Anna Arkadyevna? Why, there’s nothing out of the way. You drive out a little, and it’ll cheer you up,", "pos": 1810584}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "And if there’s a telegram while I’m away, send it on to Darya Alexandrovna’s ... but no, I shall be back myself. Where to? To Znamenka, the Oblonskys’.", "pos": 1810786}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I entreat him to forgive me. I have given in to him. I have owned myself in fault. What for? Can’t I live without him? Office and warehouse. Dental surgeon. Yes, I’ll tell Dolly all about it. She doesn’t like Vronsky. I shall be sick and ashamed, but I’ll tell her. She loves me, and I’ll follow her advice. I won’t give in to him; I won’t let him train me as he pleases. Filippov, bun shop. They say they send their dough to Petersburg. The Moscow water is so good for it. Ah, the springs at Mitishtchen, and the pancakes! Riding, too. Was that really me, with red hands? How much that seemed to me then splendid and out of reach has become worthless, while what I had then has gone out of my reach forever! Could I ever have believed then that I could come to such humiliation? How conceited and self-satisfied he will be when he gets my note! But I will show him.... How horrid that paint smells! Why is it they’re always painting and building? Modes et robes. Our? Why our? What’s so awful is that one can’t tear up the past by its roots. One can’t tear it out, but one can hide one’s memory of it. And I’ll hide it. Dolly will think I’m leaving my second husband, and so I certainly must be in the wrong. As if I cared to be right! I can’t help it! Love, most likely. They don’t know how dreary it is, how low.... The boulevard and the children. Three boys running, playing at horses. Seryozha! And I’m losing everything and not getting him back. Yes, I’m losing everything, if he doesn’t return. Perhaps he was late for the train and has come back by now. Longing for humiliation again! No, I’ll go to Dolly, and say straight out to her, I’m unhappy, I deserve this, I’m to blame, but still I’m unhappy, help me. These horses, this carriage—how loathsome I am to myself in this carriage—all his; but I won’t see them again. Is there anyone with her?", "pos": 1812124}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Katerina Alexandrovna Levin,", "pos": 1814747}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Kitty! Kitty, whom Vronsky was in love with! the girl he thinks of with love. He’s sorry he didn’t marry her. But me he thinks of with hatred, and is sorry he had anything to do with me. Well, so you’ve not gone away yet? I meant to have come to you. We had a telegram too,", "pos": 1814800}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "He writes that he can’t make out quite what Alexey Alexandrovitch wants, but he won’t go away without a decisive answer.", "pos": 1815333}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I thought you had someone with you. Can I see the letter?", "pos": 1815456}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Yes; Kitty,", "pos": 1815516}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "So I heard. May I see the letter?", "pos": 1815607}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "I’ll get it directly. But he doesn’t refuse; on the contrary, Stiva has hopes,", "pos": 1815643}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I haven’t, and indeed I don’t wish it. What’s this? Does Kitty consider it degrading to meet me? Perhaps she’s right, too. But it’s not for her, the girl who was in love with Vronsky, it’s not for her to show me that, even if it is true. I know that in my position I can’t be received by any decent woman. I knew that from the first moment I sacrificed everything to him. And this is my reward! Oh, how I hate him! And what did I come here for? I’m worse here, more miserable. And what am I going to say to Dolly now? Amuse Kitty by the sight of my wretchedness, submit to her patronizing? No; and besides, Dolly wouldn’t understand. And it would be no good my telling her. It would only be interesting to see Kitty, to show her how I despise everyone and everything, how nothing matters to me now. I knew all that, and it doesn’t interest me in the least.", "pos": 1815761}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Oh, why so? On the contrary, I have hopes,", "pos": 1816825}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Why does Kitty shrink from me?", "pos": 1817091}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Oh, what nonsense! She’s nursing, and things aren’t going right with her, and I’ve been advising her.... She’s delighted. She’ll be here in a minute. Yes, here she is.", "pos": 1817172}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I am so glad to see you,", "pos": 1817555}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I should not have been surprised if you had not cared to meet me. I’m used to everything. You have been ill? Yes, you are changed. I came to say good-bye to you. Yes, I am very glad to have seen you. I have heard so much of you from everyone, even from your husband. He came to see me, and I liked him exceedingly. Where is he?", "pos": 1817847}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "He has gone back to the country,", "pos": 1818671}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Remember me to him, be sure you do.", "pos": 1818728}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I’ll be sure to!", "pos": 1818766}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "So good-bye, Dolly.", "pos": 1818844}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "She’s just the same and just as charming! She’s very lovely! But there’s something piteous about her. Awfully piteous!", "pos": 1818939}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Yes, there’s something unusual about her today. When I went with her into the hall, I fancied she was almost crying.", "pos": 1819110}
{"speaker": "Pyotr", "text": "Where to? Home?", "pos": 1819493}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, home. How they looked at me as something dreadful, incomprehensible, and curious! What can he be telling the other with such warmth? Can one ever tell anyone what one is feeling? I meant to tell Dolly, and it’s a good thing I didn’t tell her. How pleased she would have been at my misery! She would have concealed it, but her chief feeling would have been delight at my being punished for the happiness she envied me for. Kitty, she would have been even more pleased. How I can see through her! She knows I was more than usually sweet to her husband. And she’s jealous and hates me. And she despises me. In her eyes I’m an immoral woman. If I were an immoral woman I could have made her husband fall in love with me ... if I’d cared to. And, indeed, I did care to. There’s someone who’s pleased with himself. He thought he knew me. Well, he knows me as well as anyone in the world knows me. I don’t know myself. I know my appetites, as the French say. They want that dirty ice cream, that they do know for certain. We all want what is sweet and nice. If not sweetmeats, then a dirty ice. And Kitty’s the same—if not Vronsky, then Levin. And she envies me, and hates me. And we all hate each other. I Kitty, Kitty me. Yes, that’s the truth. ‘Tiutkin, coiffeur.’ Je me fais coiffer par Tiutkin.... I’ll tell him that when he comes. And there’s nothing amusing, nothing mirthful, really. It’s all hateful. They’re singing for vespers, and how carefully that merchant crosses himself! as if he were afraid of missing something. Why these churches and this singing and this humbug? Simply to conceal that we all hate each other like these cab drivers who are abusing each other so angrily. Yashvin says, ‘He wants to strip me of my shirt, and I him of his.’ Yes, that’s the truth! Is there an answer?", "pos": 1819524}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I’ll see this minute,", "pos": 1822180}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I can’t come before ten o’clock.—Vronsky. Then, since it’s so, I know what I must do. I’ll go to him myself. Before going away forever, I’ll tell him all. Never have I hated anyone as I hate that man! Yes, I must go quickly. Yes, I must go to the railway station, and if he’s not there, then go there and catch him. Yes, I shall be in time.", "pos": 1822318}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I don’t want you, Pyotr.", "pos": 1824392}
{"speaker": "Pyotr", "text": "But how about the ticket?", "pos": 1824419}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Well, as you like, it doesn’t matter. Here it is again! Again I understand it all! Yes; what was the last thing I thought of so clearly? 'Tiutkin, coiffeur?' No, not that. No, it’s a useless journey you’re making. And the dog you’re taking with you will be no help to you. You can’t get away from yourselves. Come, he’s found a quicker way. Count Vronsky and I did not find that happiness either, though we expected so much from it. What was it he sought in me? Not love so much as the satisfaction of vanity. Yes, there was the triumph of success in him. Of course there was love too, but the chief element was the pride of success. He boasted of me. Now that’s over. There’s nothing to be proud of. Not to be proud of, but to be ashamed of. He has taken from me all he could, and now I am no use to him. He is weary of me and is trying not to be dishonorable in his behavior to me. He let that out yesterday—he wants divorce and marriage so as to burn his ships. He loves me, but how? The zest is gone, as the English say. That fellow wants everyone to admire him and is very much pleased with himself. Yes, there’s not the same flavor about me for him now. If I go away from him, at the bottom of his heart he will be glad. My love keeps growing more passionate and egoistic, while his is waning and waning, and that’s why we’re drifting apart. And there’s no help for it. He is everything for me, and I want him more and more to give himself up to me entirely. And he wants more and more to get away from me. We walked to meet each other up to the time of our love, and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions. And there’s no altering that. He tells me I’m insanely jealous, and I have told myself that I am insanely jealous; but it’s not true. I’m not jealous, but I’m unsatisfied. But.... If I could be anything but a mistress, passionately caring for nothing but his caresses; but I can’t and I don’t care to be anything else. And by that desire I rouse aversion in him, and he rouses fury in me, and it cannot be different. Don’t I know that he wouldn’t deceive me, that he has no schemes about Princess Sorokina, that he’s not in love with Kitty, that he won’t desert me! I know all that, but it makes it no better for me. If without loving me, from duty he’ll be good and kind to me, without what I want, that’s a thousand times worse than unkindness! That’s—hell! And that’s just how it is. For a long while now he hasn’t loved me. And where love ends, hate begins. I don’t know these streets at all. Hills it seems, and still houses, and houses.... And in the houses always people and people.... How many of them, no end, and all hating each other! Come, let me try and think what I want, to make me happy. Well? Suppose I am divorced, and Alexey Alexandrovitch lets me have Seryozha, and I marry Vronsky. Well, I’m divorced, and become Vronsky’s wife. Well, will Kitty cease looking at me as she looked at me today? No. And will Seryozha leave off asking and wondering about my two husbands? And is there any new feeling I can awaken between Vronsky and me? Is there possible, if not happiness, some sort of ease from misery? No, no! Impossible! We are drawn apart by life, and I make his unhappiness, and he mine, and there’s no altering him or me. Every attempt has been made, the screw has come unscrewed. Oh, a beggar woman with a baby. She thinks I’m sorry for her. Aren’t we all flung into the world only to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and each other? Schoolboys coming—laughing Seryozha? I thought, too, that I loved him, and used to be touched by my own tenderness. But I have lived without him, I gave him up for another love, and did not regret the exchange till that love was satisfied. It’s so with me and Pyotr, and the coachman, Fyodor, and that merchant, and all the people living along the Volga, where those placards invite one to go, and everywhere and always,", "pos": 1824447}
{"speaker": "Pyotr", "text": "A ticket to Obiralovka?", "pos": 1830541}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 1830690}
{"speaker": "the girl", "text": "Katerina Andreevna, she’s got them all, ma tante!", "pos": 1832572}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Even the child’s hideous and affected. There’s something familiar about that hideous peasant,", "pos": 1832640}
{"speaker": "The conductor", "text": "Do you wish to get out?", "pos": 1833186}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "It would be interesting to ask him what meaning he attaches to that,", "pos": 1834392}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, what did I stop at? That I couldn’t conceive a position in which life would not be a misery, that we are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?", "pos": 1835100}
{"speaker": "the lady", "text": "That’s what reason is given man for, to escape from what worries him,", "pos": 1835360}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "To escape from what worries him. Yes, I’m very much worried, and that’s what reason was given me for, to escape; so then one must escape: why not put out the light when there’s nothing more to look at, when it’s sickening to look at it all? But how? Why did the conductor run along the footboard, why are they shrieking, those young men in that train? why are they talking, why are they laughing? It’s all falsehood, all lying, all humbug, all cruelty!...", "pos": 1835563}
{"speaker": "porter", "text": "Count Vronsky? They sent up here from the Vronskys just this minute, to meet Princess Sorokina and her daughter. And what is the coachman like?", "pos": 1837188}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "I am very sorry your note did not reach me. I will be home at ten,", "pos": 1837614}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes, that’s what I expected! Very good, you can go home then. No, I won’t let you make me miserable,", "pos": 1837718}
{"speaker": "maid-servants", "text": "Real,", "pos": 1838235}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "My God! where am I to go?", "pos": 1838549}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "There, there, in the very middle, and I will punish him and escape from everyone and from myself.", "pos": 1839531}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Where am I? What am I doing? What for? Lord, forgive me all!", "pos": 1840762}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "You too come to see them off?", "pos": 1849908}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "No, I’m going away myself, princess. To my brother’s for a holiday. Do you always see them off?", "pos": 1849961}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "Oh, that would be impossible! Is it true that eight hundred have been sent from us already? Malvinsky wouldn’t believe me.", "pos": 1850115}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "More than eight hundred. If you reckon those who have been sent not directly from Moscow, over a thousand,", "pos": 1850265}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "There! That’s just what I said! And it’s true too, I suppose, that more than a million has been subscribed?", "pos": 1850402}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Yes, princess.", "pos": 1850534}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "What do you say to today’s telegram? Beaten the Turks again.", "pos": 1850551}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Yes, so I saw,", "pos": 1850614}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "Ah, by the way, a splendid young fellow has asked leave to go, and they’ve made some difficulty, I don’t know why. I meant to ask you; I know him; please write a note about his case. He’s being sent by Countess Lidia Ivanovna. You know Count Vronsky, the notorious one ... is going by this train?", "pos": 1850854}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "I had heard he was going, but I did not know when. By this train?", "pos": 1851501}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "I’ve seen him. He’s here: there’s only his mother seeing him off. It’s the best thing, anyway, that he could do.", "pos": 1851569}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Oh, yes, of course.", "pos": 1851684}
{"speaker": "the gentleman", "text": "In the service of religion, humanity, and our brothers, to this great cause mother Moscow dedicates you with her blessing. Jivio!", "pos": 1851896}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Ah, princess! that was something like! Capitally, warmly said, wasn’t it? Bravo! And Sergey Ivanovitch! Why, you ought to have said something—just a few words, you know, to encourage them; you do that so well,", "pos": 1852230}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "No, I’m just off.", "pos": 1852670}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Where to?", "pos": 1852690}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "To the country, to my brother’s,", "pos": 1852702}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "Then you’ll see my wife. I’ve written to her, but you’ll see her first. Please tell her that they’ve seen me and that it’s ‘all right,’ as the English say. She’ll understand. Oh, and be so good as to tell her I’m appointed secretary of the committee.... But she’ll understand! You know, les petites misères de la vie humaine. And Princess Myakaya—not Liza, but Bibish—is sending a thousand guns and twelve nurses. Did I tell you?", "pos": 1852765}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Yes, I heard so,", "pos": 1853248}
{"speaker": "Stepan Arkadyevitch", "text": "It’s a pity you’re going away. Tomorrow we’re giving a dinner to two who’re setting off—Dimer-Bartnyansky from Petersburg and our Veslovsky, Grisha. They’re both going. Veslovsky’s only lately married. There’s a fine fellow for you! Eh, princess? I can never see these collecting boxes unmoved while I’ve money in my pocket. And how about today’s telegram? Fine chaps those Montenegrins! You don’t say so!", "pos": 1853301}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "With all his faults one can’t refuse to do him justice. What a typically Russian, Slav nature! Only, I’m afraid it won’t be pleasant for Vronsky to see him. Say what you will, I’m touched by that man’s fate. Do talk to him a little on the way,", "pos": 1854563}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Yes, perhaps, if it happens so.", "pos": 1854915}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "I never liked him. But this atones for a great deal. He’s not merely going himself, he’s taking a squadron at his own expense.", "pos": 1854949}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Yes, so I heard.", "pos": 1855078}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "Here he is!", "pos": 1855144}
{"speaker": "the artilleryman", "text": "Oh, well, everyone’s going. The Servians want help, too. I’m sorry for them.", "pos": 1858629}
{"speaker": "Katavasov", "text": "Yes, you artillerymen especially are scarce there,", "pos": 1858708}
{"speaker": "the artilleryman", "text": "Oh, I wasn’t long in the artillery, maybe they’ll put me into the infantry or the cavalry.", "pos": 1858777}
{"speaker": "Katavasov", "text": "Into the infantry when they need artillery more than anything?", "pos": 1858870}
{"speaker": "the artilleryman", "text": "I wasn’t long in the artillery; I’m a cadet retired,", "pos": 1859044}
{"speaker": "Katavasov", "text": "What different positions they come from, all those fellows who are going off there,", "pos": 1859594}
{"speaker": "the old man", "text": "Well, men are wanted there,", "pos": 1860492}
{"speaker": "the old countess", "text": "I’m going, you see, taking him as far as Kursk,", "pos": 1861693}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Yes, so I heard. What a noble act on his part!", "pos": 1861753}
{"speaker": "the old countess", "text": "Yes, after his misfortune, what was there for him to do?", "pos": 1861927}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "What a terrible thing it was!", "pos": 1861986}
{"speaker": "the old countess", "text": "Ah, what I have been through! But do get in.... Ah, what I have been through! You can’t conceive it! For six weeks he did not speak to anyone, and would not touch food except when I implored him. And not for one minute could we leave him alone. We took away everything he could have used against himself. We lived on the ground floor, but there was no reckoning on anything. You know, of course, that he had shot himself once already on her account. Yes, hers was the fitting end for such a woman. Even the death she chose was low and vulgar.", "pos": 1862042}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "It’s not for us to judge, countess, but I can understand that it has been very hard for you.", "pos": 1862733}
{"speaker": "the old countess", "text": "Ah, don’t speak of it! I was staying on my estate, and he was with me. A note was brought him. He wrote an answer and sent it off. We hadn’t an idea that she was close by at the station. In the evening I had only just gone to my room, when my Mary told me a lady had thrown herself under the train. Something seemed to strike me at once. I knew it was she. The first thing I said was, he was not to be told. But they’d told him already. His coachman was there and saw it all. When I ran into his room, he was beside himself—it was fearful to see him. He didn’t say a word, but galloped off there. I don’t know to this day what happened there, but he was brought back at death’s door. I shouldn’t have known him. Prostration complète, the doctor said. And that was followed almost by madness. Oh, why talk of it! It was an awful time! No, say what you will, she was a bad woman. Why, what is the meaning of such desperate passions? It was all to show herself something out of the way. Well, and that she did do. She brought herself to ruin and two good men—her husband and my unhappy son.", "pos": 1862854}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "And what did her husband do?", "pos": 1863989}
{"speaker": "the old countess", "text": "He has taken her daughter. Alexey was ready to agree to anything at first. Now it worries him terribly that he should have given his own child away to another man. But he can’t take back his word. Karenin came to the funeral. But we tried to prevent his meeting Alexey. For him, for her husband, it was easier, anyway. She had set him free. But my poor son was utterly given up to her. He had thrown up everything, his career, me, and even then she had no mercy on him, but of set purpose she made his ruin complete. No, say what you will, her very death was the death of a vile woman, of no religious feeling. God forgive me, but I can’t help hating the memory of her, when I look at my son’s misery!", "pos": 1864045}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "But how is he now?", "pos": 1864749}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "It was a blessing from Providence for us—this Servian war. I’m old, and I don’t understand the rights and wrongs of it, but it’s come as a providential blessing to him. Of course for me, as his mother, it’s terrible; and what’s worse, they say, ce n’est pas très bien vu à Pétersbourg. But it can’t be helped! It was the one thing that could rouse him. Yashvin—a friend of his—he had lost all he had at cards and he was going to Servia. He came to see him and persuaded him to go. Now it’s an interest for him. Do please talk to him a little. I want to distract his mind. He’s so low-spirited. And as bad luck would have it, he has toothache too. But he’ll be delighted to see you. Please do talk to him; he’s walking up and down on that side.", "pos": 1864770}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Possibly you didn’t wish to see me, but couldn’t I be of use to you?", "pos": 1866416}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "There’s no one I should less dislike seeing than you. Excuse me; and there’s nothing in life for me to like.", "pos": 1866513}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "I quite understand, and I merely meant to offer you my services. Wouldn’t it be of use to you to have a letter to Ristitch—to Milan?", "pos": 1866640}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Oh, no! If you don’t mind, let’s walk on. It’s so stuffy among the carriages. A letter? No, thank you; to meet death one needs no letters of introduction. Nor for the Turks....", "pos": 1866858}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Yes; but you might find it easier to get into relations, which are after all essential, with anyone prepared to see you. But that’s as you like. I was very glad to hear of your intention. There have been so many attacks made on the volunteers, and a man like you raises them in public estimation.", "pos": 1867198}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "My use as a man, is that life’s worth nothing to me. And that I’ve enough bodily energy to cut my way into their ranks, and to trample on them or fall—I know that. I’m glad there’s something to give my life for, for it’s not simply useless but loathsome to me. Anyone’s welcome to it.", "pos": 1867497}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "You will become another man, I predict. To deliver one’s brother-men from bondage is an aim worth death and life. God grant you success outwardly—and inwardly peace,", "pos": 1867936}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "Yes, as a weapon I may be of some use. But as a man, I’m a wreck,", "pos": 1868229}
{"speaker": "Vronsky", "text": "You have had no telegrams since yesterday’s? Yes, driven back for a third time, but a decisive engagement expected for tomorrow.", "pos": 1870037}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "What a shame not to have let us know,", "pos": 1870773}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "We drove here capitally, and have not put you out. I’m so dirty. I’m afraid to touch you. I’ve been so busy, I didn’t know when I should be able to tear myself away. And so you’re still as ever enjoying your peaceful, quiet happiness, out of the reach of the current in your peaceful backwater. Here’s our friend Fyodor Vassilievitch who has succeeded in getting here at last.", "pos": 1870906}
{"speaker": "Katavasov", "text": "But I’m not a negro, I shall look like a human being when I wash. Busy as ever with his farming. It really is a peaceful backwater, while we in town think of nothing but the Servian war. Well, how does our friend look at it? He’s sure not to think like other people.", "pos": 1871335}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, I don’t know, like everybody else. I’ll send to fetch him. Papa’s staying with us. He’s only just come home from abroad. It’s Sergey Ivanovitch and Katavasov, a professor,", "pos": 1871826}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Oh, that’s a bore in this heat,", "pos": 1872403}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "No, papa, he’s very nice, and Kostya’s very fond of him,", "pos": 1872454}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Oh, I didn’t say anything.", "pos": 1872592}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "You go to them, darling, and entertain them. They saw Stiva at the station; he was quite well. And I must run to Mitya. As ill-luck would have it, I haven’t fed him since tea. He’s awake now, and sure to be screaming.", "pos": 1872621}
{"speaker": "Agafea Mihalovna", "text": "He knows me, he knows me. In God’s faith, Katerina Alexandrovna, ma’am, he knew me!", "pos": 1873910}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "But poor darling, he’s all in perspiration! What makes you think he knows you? Impossible! If he knew anyone, he would have known me,", "pos": 1874402}
{"speaker": "Agafea Mihalovna", "text": "When he wakes up, please God, you shall see for yourself. Then when I do like this, he simply beams on me, the darling! Simply beams like a sunny day!", "pos": 1875422}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Well, well; then we shall see. But now go away, he’s going to sleep.", "pos": 1875598}
{"speaker": "Nurse", "text": "How hot it is! if God would send a drop of rain,", "pos": 1875946}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Yes, yes, sh—sh—sh——", "pos": 1876007}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "What does he keep reading philosophy of some sort for all this year? If it’s all written in those books, he can understand them. If it’s all wrong, why does he read them? He says himself that he would like to believe. Then why is it he doesn’t believe? Surely from his thinking so much? And he thinks so much from being solitary. He’s always alone, alone. He can’t talk about it all to us. I fancy he’ll be glad of these visitors, especially Katavasov. He likes discussions with them. I do believe the laundress hasn’t sent the washing yet, and all the best sheets are in use. If I don’t see to it, Agafea Mihalovna will give Sergey Ivanovitch the wrong sheets. Yes, I will arrange it. Yes, Kostya, an unbeliever. Well, an unbeliever then! Better let him always be one than like Madame Stahl, or what I tried to be in those days abroad. No, he won’t ever sham anything.", "pos": 1877558}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "He an unbeliever indeed! With his heart, his dread of offending anyone, even a child! Everything for others, nothing for himself. Sergey Ivanovitch simply considers it as Kostya’s duty to be his steward. And it’s the same with his sister. Now Dolly and her children are under his guardianship; all these peasants who come to him every day, as though he were bound to be at their service. Yes, only be like your father, only like him,", "pos": 1879745}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "If I do not accept the answers Christianity gives to the problems of my life, what answers do I accept?", "pos": 1882003}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Were these people sincere? or were they playing a part? or was it that they understood the answers science gave to these problems in some different, clearer sense than he did?", "pos": 1882841}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life’s impossible; and that I can’t know, and so I can’t live. In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble-organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me.", "pos": 1888008}
{"speaker": "Son", "text": "thank you", "pos": 1892197}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "thank you", "pos": 1892241}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Why is it all being done? Why am I standing here, making them work? What are they all so busy for, trying to show their zeal before me? What is that old Matrona, my old friend, toiling for? (I doctored her, when the beam fell on her in the fire) Then she recovered, but today or tomorrow or in ten years she won’t; they’ll bury her, and nothing will be left either of her or of that smart girl in the red jacket, who with that skillful, soft action shakes the ears out of their husks. They’ll bury her and this piebald horse, and very soon too. And they will bury her and Fyodor the thrasher with his curly beard full of chaff and his shirt torn on his white shoulders—they will bury him. He’s untying the sheaves, and giving orders, and shouting to the women, and quickly setting straight the strap on the moving wheel. And what’s more, it’s not them alone—me they’ll bury too, and nothing will be left. What for? It’ll soon be one, and they’re only beginning the third sheaf. You put in too much at a time, Fyodor. Do you see—it gets choked, that’s why it isn’t getting on. Do it evenly.", "pos": 1897960}
{"speaker": "Fyodor", "text": "It’s a high rent; it wouldn’t pay Platon, Konstantin Dmitrievitch,", "pos": 1900466}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But how does Kirillov make it pay?", "pos": 1900604}
{"speaker": "Fyodor", "text": "Mituh! you may be sure he’ll make it pay, Konstantin Dmitrievitch! He’ll get his share, however he has to squeeze to get it! He’s no mercy on a Christian. But Uncle Fokanitch do you suppose he’d flay the skin off a man? Where there’s debt, he’ll let anyone off. And he’ll not wring the last penny out. He’s a man too.", "pos": 1900641}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But why will he let anyone off?", "pos": 1901069}
{"speaker": "Fyodor", "text": "Oh, well, of course, folks are different. One man lives for his own wants and nothing else, like Mituh, he only thinks of filling his belly, but Fokanitch is a righteous man. He lives for his soul. He does not forget God.", "pos": 1901103}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "How thinks of God? How does he live for his soul?", "pos": 1901327}
{"speaker": "Fyodor", "text": "Why, to be sure, in truth, in God’s way. Folks are different. Take you now, you wouldn’t wrong a man....", "pos": 1901401}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Yes, yes, good-bye!", "pos": 1901508}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Not living for his own wants, but for God? For what God? And could one say anything more senseless than what he said? He said that one must not live for one’s own wants, that is, that one must not live for what we understand, what we are attracted by, what we desire, but must live for something incomprehensible, for God, whom no one can understand nor even define. What of it? Didn’t I understand those senseless words of Fyodor’s? And understanding them, did I doubt of their truth? Did I think them stupid, obscure, inexact? No, I understood him, and exactly as he understands the words. I understood them more fully and clearly than I understand anything in life, and never in my life have I doubted nor can I doubt about it. And not only I, but everyone, the whole world understands nothing fully but this, and about this only they have no doubt and are always agreed. And I looked out for miracles, complained that I did not see a miracle which would convince me. A material miracle would have persuaded me. And here is a miracle, the sole miracle possible, continually existing, surrounding me on all sides, and I never noticed it! Fyodor says that Kirillov lives for his belly. That’s comprehensible and rational. All of us as rational beings can’t do anything else but live for our belly. And all of a sudden the same Fyodor says that one mustn’t live for one’s belly, but must live for truth, for God, and at a hint I understand him! And I and millions of men, men who lived ages ago and men living now—peasants, the poor in spirit and the learned, who have thought and written about it, in their obscure words saying the same thing—we are all agreed about this one thing: what we must live for and what is good. I and all men have only one firm, incontestable, clear knowledge, and that knowledge cannot be explained by the reason—it is outside it, and has no causes and can have no effects. If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect. And yet I know it, and we all know it. What could be a greater miracle than that? Can I have found the solution of it all? can my sufferings be over? Yes, I must make it clear to myself and understand. What have I discovered? What is it makes me glad? What have I discovered? I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master. Of old I used to say that in my body, that in the body of this grass and of this beetle (there, she didn’t care for the grass, she’s opened her wings and flown away), there was going on a transformation of matter in accordance with physical, chemical, and physiological laws. And in all of us, as well as in the aspens and the clouds and the misty patches, there was a process of evolution. Evolution from what? into what?—Eternal evolution and struggle.... As though there could be any sort of tendency and struggle in the eternal! And I was astonished that in spite of the utmost effort of thought along that road I could not discover the meaning of life, the meaning of my impulses and yearnings. Now I say that I know the meaning of my life: ‘To live for God, for my soul.’ And this meaning, in spite of its clearness, is mysterious and marvelous. Such, indeed, is the meaning of everything existing. Yes, pride. And not merely pride of intellect, but dulness of intellect. And most of all, the deceitfulness; yes, the deceitfulness of intellect. The cheating knavishness of intellect, that’s it,", "pos": 1902540}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "What should I have been, and how should I have spent my life, if I had not had these beliefs, if I had not known that I must live for God and not for my own desires? I should have robbed and lied and killed. Nothing of what makes the chief happiness of my life would have existed for me. I looked for an answer to my question. And thought could not give an answer to my question—it is incommensurable with my question. The answer has been given me by life itself, in my knowledge of what is right and what is wrong. And that knowledge I did not arrive at in any way, it was given to me as to all men, given, because I could not have got it from anywhere. Where could I have got it? By reason could I have arrived at knowing that I must love my neighbor and not oppress him? I was told that in my childhood, and I believed it gladly, for they told me what was already in my soul. But who discovered it? Not reason. Reason discovered the struggle for existence, and the law that requires us to oppress all who hinder the satisfaction of our desires. That is the deduction of reason. But loving one’s neighbor reason could never discover, because it’s irrational.", "pos": 1908319}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "That all comes of itself, and there’s nothing interesting or important about it because it has always been so, and always will be so. And it’s all always the same. We’ve no need to think about that, it’s all ready. But we want to invent something of our own, and new. So we thought of putting raspberries in a cup, and cooking them over a candle, and squirting milk straight into each other’s mouths. That’s fun, and something new, and not a bit worse than drinking out of cups. Isn’t it just the same that we do, that I did, searching by the aid of reason for the significance of the forces of nature and the meaning of the life of man? And don’t all the theories of philosophy do the same, trying by the path of thought, which is strange and not natural to man, to bring him to a knowledge of what he has known long ago, and knows so certainly that he could not live at all without it? Isn’t it distinctly to be seen in the development of each philosopher’s theory, that he knows what is the chief significance of life beforehand, just as positively as the peasant Fyodor, and not a bit more clearly than he, and is simply trying by a dubious intellectual path to come back to what everyone knows? Now then, leave the children to themselves to get things alone and make their crockery, get the milk from the cows, and so on. Would they be naughty then? Why, they’d die of hunger! Well, then, leave us with our passions and thoughts, without any idea of the one God, of the Creator, or without any idea of what is right, without any idea of moral evil. Just try and build up anything without those ideas! We only try to destroy them, because we’re spiritually provided for. Exactly like the children! Whence have I that joyful knowledge, shared with the peasant, that alone gives peace to my soul? Whence did I get it? Brought up with an idea of God, a Christian, my whole life filled with the spiritual blessings Christianity has given me, full of them, and living on those blessings, like the children I did not understand them, and destroy, that is try to destroy, what I live by. And as soon as an important moment of life comes, like the children when they are cold and hungry, I turn to Him, and even less than the children when their mother scolds them for their childish mischief, do I feel that my childish efforts at wanton madness are reckoned against me. Yes, what I know, I know not by reason, but it has been given to me, revealed to me, and I know it with my heart, by faith in the chief thing taught by the church. The church! the church! But can I believe in all the church teaches? The Creation? But how did I explain existence? By existence? By nothing? The devil and sin. But how do I explain evil?... The atonement?... But I know nothing, nothing, and I can know nothing but what has been told to me and all men.", "pos": 1910691}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Do I not know that that is infinite space, and that it is not a round arch? But, however I screw up my eyes and strain my sight, I cannot see it not round and not bounded, and in spite of my knowing about infinite space, I am incontestably right when I see a solid blue dome, and more right than when I strain my eyes to see beyond it. Can this be faith? My God, I thank Thee!", "pos": 1914821}
{"speaker": "coachman", "text": "The mistress sent me. Your brother has come, and some gentleman with him.", "pos": 1915954}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "With my brother there will be none of that aloofness there always used to be between us, there will be no disputes; with Kitty there shall never be quarrels; with the visitor, whoever he may be, I will be friendly and nice; with the servants, with Ivan, it will all be different.", "pos": 1916678}
{"speaker": "coachman", "text": "Your honor must keep to the right and mind that stump,", "pos": 1917460}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Please don’t touch and don’t teach me!", "pos": 1917565}
{"speaker": "Grisha and Tanya", "text": "Uncle Kostya! mamma’s coming, and grandfather, and Sergey Ivanovitch, and someone else,", "pos": 1917937}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Who is he?", "pos": 1918067}
{"speaker": "Tanya", "text": "An awfully terrible person! And he does like this with his arms,", "pos": 1918080}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Old or young? Oh, I hope it’s not a tiresome person!", "pos": 1918207}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, whatever I do, I won’t argue and give utterance to my ideas lightly,", "pos": 1918907}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "She has taken Mitya to Kolok She meant to have him out there because it’s so hot indoors,", "pos": 1919086}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "She rushes about from place to place with him. I advised her to try putting him in the ice cellar.", "pos": 1919343}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "She meant to come to the bee-house. She thought you would be there. We are going there,", "pos": 1919472}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Well, and what are you doing?", "pos": 1919574}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, nothing special. Busy as usual with the land. Well, and what about you? Come for long? We have been expecting you for such a long time.", "pos": 1919681}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Only for a fortnight. I’ve a great deal to do in Moscow.", "pos": 1919841}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, have there been reviews of your book?", "pos": 1920460}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "No one is interested in that now, and I less than anyone. Just look, Darya Alexandrovna, we shall have a shower,", "pos": 1920587}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "It was jolly of you to make up your mind to come,", "pos": 1920990}
{"speaker": "Katavasov", "text": "I’ve been meaning to a long while. Now we shall have some discussion, we’ll see to that. Have you been reading Spencer?", "pos": 1921058}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, I’ve not finished reading him. But I don’t need him now.", "pos": 1921180}
{"speaker": "Katavasov", "text": "How’s that? that’s interesting. Why so?", "pos": 1921257}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I mean that I’m fully convinced that the solution of the problems that interest me I shall never find in him and his like. Now.... But we’ll talk later on. If we’re going to the bee-house, it’s this way, along this little path,", "pos": 1921299}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Can it have been only a momentary mood, and will it pass and leave no trace?", "pos": 1923997}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Do you know, Kostya, with whom Sergey Ivanovitch traveled on his way here? with Vronsky! He’s going to Servia.", "pos": 1924835}
{"speaker": "Katavasov", "text": "And not alone; he’s taking a squadron out with him at his own expense,", "pos": 1925010}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "That’s the right thing for him. Are volunteers still going out then?", "pos": 1925099}
{"speaker": "Katavasov", "text": "I should think so! You should have seen what was going on at the station yesterday!", "pos": 1925378}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Well, what is one to make of it? For mercy’s sake, do explain to me, Sergey Ivanovitch, where are all those volunteers going, whom are they fighting with?", "pos": 1925523}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "With the Turks,", "pos": 1925779}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "But who has declared war on the Turks?—Ivan Ivanovitch Ragozov and Countess Lidia Ivanovna, assisted by Madame Stahl?", "pos": 1925958}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "No one has declared war, but people sympathize with their neighbors’ sufferings and are eager to help them,", "pos": 1926078}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But the prince is not speaking of help, but of war. The prince says that private persons cannot take part in war without the permission of the government.", "pos": 1926212}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Kostya, mind, that’s a bee! Really, they’ll sting us!", "pos": 1926430}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But that’s not a bee, it’s a wasp,", "pos": 1926518}
{"speaker": "Katavasov", "text": "Well now, well, what’s your own theory? Why have not private persons the right to do so?", "pos": 1926567}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Oh, my theory’s this: war is on one side such a beastly, cruel, and awful thing, that no one man, not to speak of a Christian, can individually take upon himself the responsibility of beginning wars; that can only be done by a government, which is called upon to do this, and is driven inevitably into war. On the other hand, both political science and common sense teach us that in matters of state, and especially in the matter of war, private citizens must forego their personal individual will.", "pos": 1926742}
{"speaker": "Katavasov", "text": "But the point is, my dear fellow, that there may be cases when the government does not carry out the will of the citizens and then the public asserts its will,", "pos": 1927342}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "You don’t put the matter in its true light. There is no question here of a declaration of war, but simply the expression of a human Christian feeling. Our brothers, one with us in religion and in race, are being massacred. Even supposing they were not our brothers nor fellow-Christians, but simply children, women, old people, feeling is aroused and Russians go eagerly to help in stopping these atrocities. Fancy, if you were going along the street and saw drunken men beating a woman or a child—I imagine you would not stop to inquire whether war had been declared on the men, but would throw yourself on them, and protect the victim.", "pos": 1927654}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But I should not kill them,", "pos": 1928294}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Yes, you would kill them.", "pos": 1928336}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I don’t know. If I saw that, I might give way to my impulse of the moment, but I can’t say beforehand. And such a momentary impulse there is not, and there cannot be, in the case of the oppression of the Slavonic peoples.", "pos": 1928364}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Possibly for you there is not; but for others there is. There are traditions still extant among the people of Slavs of the true faith suffering under the yoke of the ‘unclean sons of Hagar.’ The people have heard of the sufferings of their brethren and have spoken.", "pos": 1928588}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Perhaps so, but I don’t see it. I’m one of the people myself, and I don’t feel it.", "pos": 1928909}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Here am I too. I’ve been staying abroad and reading the papers, and I must own, up to the time of the Bulgarian atrocities, I couldn’t make out why it was all the Russians were all of a sudden so fond of their Slavonic brethren, while I didn’t feel the slightest affection for them. I was very much upset, thought I was a monster, or that it was the influence of Carlsbad on me. But since I have been here, my mind’s been set at rest. I see that there are people besides me who’re only interested in Russia, and not in their Slavonic brethren. Here’s Konstantin too.", "pos": 1929018}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Personal opinions mean nothing in such a case, it’s not a matter of personal opinions when all Russia—the whole people—has expressed its will.", "pos": 1929610}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "But excuse me, I don’t see that. The people don’t know anything about it, if you come to that,", "pos": 1929781}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "Oh, papa!... how can you say that? And last Sunday in church? Please give me a cloth. Why, it’s not possible that all....", "pos": 1929899}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "But what was it in church on Sunday? The priest had been told to read that. He read it. They didn’t understand a word of it. Then they were told that there was to be a collection for a pious object in church; well, they pulled out their halfpence and gave them, but what for they couldn’t say.", "pos": 1930141}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "The people cannot help knowing; the sense of their own destinies is always in the people, and at such moments as the present that sense finds utterance,", "pos": 1930436}
{"speaker": "Mihalitch", "text": "That’s so, no doubt,", "pos": 1930954}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Here, then, ask him. He knows nothing about it and thinks nothing. Have you heard about the war, Mihalitch? What they read in the church? What do you think about it? Ought we to fight for the Christians?", "pos": 1931053}
{"speaker": "Mihalitch", "text": "What should we think? Alexander Nikolaevitch our Emperor has thought for us; he thinks for us indeed in all things. It’s clearer for him to see. Shall I bring a bit more bread? Give the little lad some more?", "pos": 1931300}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "I don’t need to ask, we have seen and are seeing hundreds and hundreds of people who give up everything to serve a just cause, come from every part of Russia, and directly and clearly express their thought and aim. They bring their halfpence or go themselves and say directly what for. What does it mean?", "pos": 1931600}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "It means, to my thinking, that among eighty millions of people there can always be found not hundreds, as now, but tens of thousands of people who have lost caste, ne’er-do-wells, who are always ready to go anywhere—to Pogatchev’s bands, to Khiva, to Servia....", "pos": 1931933}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "I tell you that it’s not a case of hundreds or of ne’er-do-wells, but the best representatives of the people! And what of the subscriptions? In this case it is a whole people directly expressing their will.", "pos": 1932242}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "That word ‘people’ is so vague. Parish clerks, teachers, and one in a thousand of the peasants, maybe, know what it’s all about. The rest of the eighty millions, like Mihalitch, far from expressing their will, haven’t the faintest idea what there is for them to express their will about. What right have we to say that this is the people’s will?", "pos": 1932556}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Oh, if you want to learn the spirit of the people by arithmetical computation, of course it’s very difficult to arrive at it. And voting has not been introduced among us and cannot be introduced, for it does not express the will of the people; but there are other ways of reaching that. It is felt in the air, it is felt by the heart. I won’t speak of those deep currents which are astir in the still ocean of the people, and which are evident to every unprejudiced man; let us look at society in the narrow sense. All the most diverse sections of the educated public, hostile before, are merged in one. Every division is at an end, all the public organs say the same thing over and over again, all feel the mighty torrent that has overtaken them and is carrying them in one direction.", "pos": 1933062}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Yes, all the newspapers do say the same thing. That’s true. But so it is the same thing that all the frogs croak before a storm. One can hear nothing for them.", "pos": 1933850}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Frogs or no frogs, I’m not the editor of a paper and I don’t want to defend them; but I am speaking of the unanimity in the intellectual world,", "pos": 1934031}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Well, about that unanimity, that’s another thing, one may say. There’s my son-in-law, Stepan Arkadyevitch, you know him. He’s got a place now on the committee of a commission and something or other, I don’t remember. Only there’s nothing to do in it—why, Dolly, it’s no secret!—and a salary of eight thousand. You try asking him whether his post is of use, he’ll prove to you that it’s most necessary. And he’s a truthful man too, but there’s no refusing to believe in the utility of eight thousand roubles.", "pos": 1934288}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Yes, he asked me to give a message to Darya Alexandrovna about the post,", "pos": 1934817}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "So it is with the unanimity of the press. That’s been explained to me: as soon as there’s war their incomes are doubled. How can they help believing in the destinies of the people and the Slavonic races ... and all that?", "pos": 1934973}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "I don’t care for many of the papers, but that’s unjust,", "pos": 1935196}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "I would only make one condition. Alphonse Karr said a capital thing before the war with Prussia: ‘You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!’", "pos": 1935278}
{"speaker": "Katavasov", "text": "A nice lot the editors would make!", "pos": 1935600}
{"speaker": "Dolly", "text": "But they’d run, they’d only be in the way.", "pos": 1935729}
{"speaker": "Prince Shtcherbatsky", "text": "Oh, if they ran away, then we’d have grape-shot or Cossacks with whips behind them,", "pos": 1935788}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "But that’s a joke, and a poor one too, if you’ll excuse my saying so, prince,", "pos": 1935891}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "I don’t see that it was a joke, that....", "pos": 1935995}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "Every member of society is called upon to do his own special work. And men of thought are doing their work when they express public opinion. And the single-hearted and full expression of public opinion is the service of the press and a phenomenon to rejoice us at the same time. Twenty years ago we should have been silent, but now we have heard the voice of the Russian people, which is ready to rise as one man and ready to sacrifice itself for its oppressed brethren; that is a great step and a proof of strength.", "pos": 1936098}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "But it’s not only making a sacrifice, but killing Turks. The people make sacrifices and are ready to make sacrifices for their soul, but not for murder,", "pos": 1936628}
{"speaker": "Katavasov", "text": "For their soul? That’s a most puzzling expression for a natural science man, do you understand? What sort of thing is the soul? Oh, you know! No, by God, I haven’t the faintest idea!", "pos": 1936906}
{"speaker": "Sergey Ivanovitch", "text": "‘I bring not peace, but a sword,’ says Christ,", "pos": 1937166}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s so, no doubt,", "pos": 1937376}
{"speaker": "Katavasov", "text": "Ah, my dear fellow, you’re defeated, utterly defeated!", "pos": 1937511}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No, I can’t argue with them, they wear impenetrable armor, while I’m naked.", "pos": 1937724}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Alive? Unhurt? Thank God! Aren’t you ashamed of yourself? I can’t think how you can be so reckless!", "pos": 1943853}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "It wasn’t my fault, really. We were just meaning to go, when he made such a to-do that we had to change him. We were just....", "pos": 1944179}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, thank God! I don’t know what I’m saying!", "pos": 1944386}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Come, look, look! Agafea Mihalovna’s right. He knows us!", "pos": 1948604}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Well, I am glad you are beginning to love him. I am so glad! It had begun to distress me. You said you had no feeling for him.", "pos": 1949404}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "No; did I say that? I only said I was disappointed.", "pos": 1949652}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "What! disappointed in him?", "pos": 1949706}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Not disappointed in him, but in my own feeling; I had expected more. I had expected a rush of new delightful emotion to come as a surprise. And then instead of that—disgust, pity.... And most of all, at there being far more apprehension and pity than pleasure. Today, after that fright during the storm, I understand how I love him.", "pos": 1949735}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Were you very much frightened? So was I too, but I feel it more now that it’s over. I’m going to look at the oak. How nice Katavasov is! And what a happy day we’ve had altogether. And you’re so nice with Sergey Ivanovitch, when you care to be.... Well, go back to them. It’s always so hot and steamy here after the bath.", "pos": 1950254}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Well, what is it perplexes me? Yes, the one unmistakable, incontestable manifestation of the Divinity is the law of right and wrong, which has come into the world by revelation, and which I feel in myself, and in the recognition of which—I don’t make myself, but whether I will or not—I am made one with other men in one body of believers, which is called the church. Well, but the Jews, the Mohammedans, the Confucians, the Buddhists—what of them? Can these hundreds of millions of men be deprived of that highest blessing without which life has no meaning? But what am I questioning? I am questioning the relation to Divinity of all the different religions of all mankind. I am questioning the universal manifestation of God to all the world with all those misty blurs. What am I about? To me individually, to my heart has been revealed a knowledge beyond all doubt, and unattainable by reason, and here I am obstinately trying to express that knowledge in reason and words. Don’t I know that the stars don’t move? But looking at the movements of the stars, I can’t picture to myself the rotation of the earth, and I’m right in saying that the stars move. And could the astronomers have understood and calculated anything, if they had taken into account all the complicated and varied motions of the earth? All the marvelous conclusions they have reached about the distances, weights, movements, and deflections of the heavenly bodies are only founded on the apparent motions of the heavenly bodies about a stationary earth, on that very motion I see before me now, which has been so for millions of men during long ages, and was and will be always alike, and can always be trusted. And just as the conclusions of the astronomers would have been vain and uncertain if not founded on observations of the seen heavens, in relation to a single meridian and a single horizon, so would my conclusions be vain and uncertain if not founded on that conception of right, which has been and will be always alike for all men, which has been revealed to me as a Christian, and which can always be trusted in my soul. The question of other religions and their relations to Divinity I have no right to decide, and no possibility of deciding.", "pos": 1951498}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, you haven’t gone in then? What is it? you’re not worried about anything? Kostya! do something for me, go into the corner room and see if they’ve made it all right for Sergey Ivanovitch. I can’t very well. See if they’ve put the new wash stand in it.", "pos": 1954126}
{"speaker": "Levin", "text": "Very well, I’ll go directly. No, I’d better not speak of it. It is a secret for me alone, of vital importance for me, and not to be put into words. This new feeling has not changed me, has not made me happy and enlightened all of a sudden, as I had dreamed, just like the feeling for my child. There was no surprise in this either. Faith—or not faith—I don’t know what it is—but this feeling has come just as imperceptibly through suffering, and has taken firm root in my soul. I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper with Ivan the coachman, falling into angry discussions, expressing my opinions tactlessly; there will be still the same wall between the holy of holies of my soul and other people, even my wife; I shall still go on scolding her for my own terror, and being remorseful for it; I shall still be as unable to understand with my reason why I pray, and I shall still go on praying; but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.", "pos": 1954910}