1 Divorce is sanctioned even by our church.
2 "Divorce," Alexey Alexandrovitch interrupted, in a tone of aversion.
3 Because I am beginning an action for divorce against your sister, my wife.
4 "Yes, I am brought to the painful necessity of seeking a divorce," he said.
5 Divorce appeared to him impossible also on other still more weighty grounds.
6 You know I had resolved on a divorce, and had even begun to take proceedings.
7 I want a divorce, but the form in which it is possible is of great consequence to me.
8 All the hatred of that day when he had resolved on a divorce had sprung up again in his soul.
9 His chief object, to define the position with the least amount of disturbance possible, would not be attained by divorce either.
10 Divorce by our laws," he said, with a slight shade of disapprobation of our laws, "is possible, as you are aware, in the following cases.
11 In his own case, Alexey Alexandrovitch saw that a legal divorce, that is to say, one in which only the guilty wife would be repudiated, was impossible of attainment.
12 An attempt at divorce could lead to nothing but a public scandal, which would be a perfect godsend to his enemies for calumny and attacks on his high position in society.
13 Alexey Alexandrovitch had thought to pass at once into those frigid relations in which he ought to stand with the brother of a wife against whom he was beginning a suit for divorce.
14 Moreover, in the event of divorce, or even of an attempt to obtain a divorce, it was obvious that the wife broke off all relations with the husband and threw in her lot with the lover.
15 But this step too presented the same drawback of public scandal as a divorce, and what was more, a separation, quite as much as a regular divorce, flung his wife into the arms of Vronsky.
16 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.
17 Divorce, the details of which he knew by this time, seemed to him now out of the question, because the sense of his own dignity and respect for religion forbade his taking upon himself a fictitious charge of adultery, and still more suffering his wife, pardoned and beloved by him, to be caught in the fact and put to public shame.
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