1 So it seemed, at least, to the princess.
2 But at that very moment the princess came in.
3 "We shall be pleased to see you," the princess said stiffly.
4 "Let me introduce you," said the princess, indicating Levin.
5 The princess was still in her room, and the prince had not come in.
6 But how marriages were made now, the princess could not learn from any one.
7 At every turn he had scenes with the princess for compromising her daughter.
8 And so the princess was more uneasy over Kitty than she had been over her elder sisters.
9 began the princess, and from her serious and alert face, Kitty guessed what it would be.
10 Making way for the lady who had come in, Vronsky went up to the princess and then to Kitty.
11 This conversation had partly reassured the princess; but perfectly at ease she could not be.
12 He was on the point of getting up, when the princess, noticing that he was silent, addressed him.
13 I know if one were to listen to you," interrupted the princess, "we should never marry our daughter.
14 The princess smiled that what was taking place just now in her soul seemed to the poor child so immense and so important.
15 The Russian fashion of match-making by the offices of intermediate persons was for some reason considered unseemly; it was ridiculed by every one, and by the princess herself.
16 It was very easy for anyone to say that who had no daughters, but the princess realized that in the process of getting to know each other, her daughter might fall in love, and fall in love with someone who did not care to marry her or who was quite unfit to be her husband.
17 And, however much it was instilled into the princess that in our times young people ought to arrange their lives for themselves, she was unable to believe it, just as she would have been unable to believe that, at any time whatever, the most suitable playthings for children five years old ought to be loaded pistols.
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