Part3Chapter3

1、Part 3 Chapter 3Kitty writes to me that theres nothing she longs for so much as quiet and solitude, Dolly said after the silence that had followed.And how is she-better? Levin asked in agitation.Thank God, shes quite well again. I never believed her lungs were affected.Oh, Im very glad! said Levin,

2、and Dolly fancied she sawsomething touching, helpless, in his face as he said this and looked silently into her face.Let me ask you, Konstantin Dmitrievitch, said DaryaAlexandrovna, smiling her kindly and rather mocking smile, why is it you are angry with Kitty?I? Im not angry with her, said Levin.1

3、 / 11_來源網(wǎng)絡(luò)整理，僅作為學(xué)習(xí)參考Yes, you are angry. Why was it you did not come to see us nor them when you were in Moscow?Darya Alexandrovna, he said, blushing up to the roots of his hair, I wonder really that with your kind heart you dont feel this. How it is you feel no pity for me, if nothing else, when you

4、 know.What do I know?You know I madea n offer and that I was refused, said Levin, and all the tenderness he had been feeling for Kitty a minute before was replaced by a feeling of anger for the slight he had suffered.What makes you suppose I know?Because everybody knows it.Thats just where you are m

5、istaken; I did not know it,though I had guessed it was so.2 / 11_來源網(wǎng)絡(luò)整理，僅作為學(xué)習(xí)參考Well, now you know it.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

6、 else. But what did pass between you? Tell me.I have told you.When was it?When I was at their house the last time.Do you know that, said Darya Alexandrovna, I ama wfully, awfully sorry for her. You suffer only from pridePerhaps so, said Levin, but.She interrupted him.But she, poor girl.Iam awfully,

7、awfully sorry for her.Now I see it all.Well, Darya Alexandrovna, you must excuse me, he said,3 / 11_來源網(wǎng)絡(luò)整理，僅作為學(xué)習(xí)參考getting up. Good-bye, Darya Alexandrovna, till we meet again.No, wait a minute, she said, clutching him by the sleeve.Wait a minute, sit down.Please, please, dont let us talk of this, he

8、 said, sitting down, and at the same time feeling rise up and stir within his heart a hope he had believed to be buried.If I did not like you, she said, and tears came into her eyes; if I did not know you, as I do know you . . .The feeling that had seemedd ead revived more and more, rose up and took

9、 possession of Levins heart.Yes, I understand it all now, said Darya Alexandrovna.You cant understand it; for you men, who are free and make your own choice, its always clear whom you love. But a girls in a position of suspense, with all a womans or maidensmodesty, a girl who sees you men from afar,

10、 who takes everything4 / 11_來源網(wǎng)絡(luò)整理，僅作為學(xué)習(xí)參考o(jì)n trust,-a girl may have, and often has, such a feeling that she cannot tell what to say.Yes, if the heart does not speak.No, the heart does speak; but just consider: you men haveviews about a girl, you come to the house, you make friends,you criticize,you

11、wait to see if you have found what you love,and then, when you are sure you love her, you makea n offerWell, thats not quite it.Anyway you make an offer, when your love is ripe or whenthe balance has completely turned between the two you arechoosing from. But a girl is not asked. She is expected to

12、make her choice, and yet she cannot choose, she can only answer yes or no.Yes, to choose between mea nd Vronsky, thought Levin, and the dead thing that had come to life within him died again, and5 / 11_來源網(wǎng)絡(luò)整理，僅作為學(xué)習(xí)參考o(jì)nly weighed on his heart and set it aching.Darya Alexandrovna, he said, thats how o

13、ne chooses a new dress or some purchase or other, not love. The choice hasbeen made, and so much the better And there can be no repeating it.Ah, pride, pride! said Darya Alexandrovna, as though despising him for the baseness of this feeling in comparison with that other feeling which only womenk now

14、. At the time when you made Kitty an offer she was just in a position in which shecould not answer. She was in doubt. Doubt between you andVronsky. Him she was seeing every day, and you she had not seenfor a long while. Supposing she had been older.I,for instance, in her place could have felt no dou

15、bt. I always disliked him, and so it has turned out.Levin recalled Kittys answer. She had said: No, that cannot be.6 / 11_來源網(wǎng)絡(luò)整理，僅作為學(xué)習(xí)參考Darya Alexandrovna, he said dryly, I appreciate your confidence in me; I believe you are making a mistake. But whether I am right or wrong, that pride you so despis

16、e makes any thought of Katerina Alexandrovna out of the question forme,- you understand, utterly out of the question.I will only say one thing more: you know that I ams peaking of my sister, whom I love as I love my own children. I dont say she cared for you, all I meant to say is that her refusal a

17、t that moment proves nothing.I dont know! said Levin, jumping up. If you only knew how you are hurting me. Its 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 wouldhave been in him. But hes dea

18、d, dead, dead!.7 / 11_來源網(wǎng)絡(luò)整理，僅作為學(xué)習(xí)參考How absurd you are! said Darya Alexandrovna, looking with mournful tenderness at Levins excitement. Yes, I see it allmore and more clearly, she went on musingly. So you wont come to see us, then, when Kittys here?No, I shant come. Of course I wont avoid meeting Ka

19、terinaAlexandrovna, but as far as I can, I will try to save her theannoyance of my presence.You are very, very absurd, repeatedDarya Alexandrovna,looking with tenderness into his face.Very well then, let itbe as though we had not spoken of this.What have you come for,Tanya? she said in French to the

20、 little girl who had come in.Wheres my spade, mamma?I speak French, and you must too.The little girl tried to say it in French, but could notremember the French for spade; the mother prompted her, and then told her in French where to look for the spade. And this made a disagreeable impression on Lev

21、in.8 / 11_來源網(wǎng)絡(luò)整理，僅作為學(xué)習(xí)參考Everything in Darya Alexandrovnas house and children struck him now as by no means so charming as a little while before. And what does she talk French with the children for? he thought; how unnatural and false it is! And the children feel it so: Learning French and unlearning

22、 sincerity, he thought to himself, unaware that Darya Alexandrovna had thought all that over twenty times already, and yet, even at the cost of some loss of sincerity, believed it necessary to teach her children French in that way.But why are you going? Do stay a little.Levin stayed to tea; but his

23、good-humor had vanished, and he felt ill at ease.After tea he went out into the hall to order his horses to be put in, and, when he came back, he found Darya Alexandrovna greatly disturbed, with a troubled face, and tears in her eyes.9 / 11_來源網(wǎng)絡(luò)整理，僅作為學(xué)習(xí)參考While Levin had been outside, an incident had

24、 occurred which had utterly shattered all the happiness she had been feeling that day, and her pride in her children. Grisha and Tanya hadbeen fighting over a ball. Darya Alexandrovna, hearing a scream in the nursery, ran in and saw a terrible sight. Tanya was pulling Grishas hair, while he, with a face hideous with rage, was beating her with his fists wherever he could get at her.Something snapped in Darya Alexandrovnas heart when she saw this. It was as i