1 On the tenth day from their arrival at the town, Kitty was unwell.
2 "Konstantin Dmitrievitch despises and hates town and us townspeople," said Countess Nordston.
3 It seemed to her natural and simple to see her son when she should be in the same town with him.
4 As usual, too, his wife had moved for the summer to a villa out of town, while he remained in Petersburg.
5 After Countess Lidia Ivanovna another friend came, the wife of a chief secretary, who told her all the news of the town.
6 They had visited Venice, Rome, and Naples, and had just arrived at a small Italian town where they meant to stay some time.
7 But in spite of that, his love was known to all the town; everyone guessed with more or less confidence at his relations with Madame Karenina.
8 In the same way Levin in his heart despised the town mode of life of his friend, and his official duties, which he laughed at, and regarded as trifling.
9 Now she knew all of them as people know one another in a country town; she knew their habits and weaknesses, and where the shoe pinched each one of them.
10 But without this occupation, the life of Vronsky and of Anna, who wondered at his loss of interest in it, struck them as intolerably tedious in an Italian town.
11 She had found Nikolay Dmitrievitch, had again made it up with him in Moscow, and had moved with him to a provincial town, where he had received a post in the government service.
12 Had it not been for this growing desire to be free, not to have scenes every time he wanted to go to the town to a meeting or a race, Vronsky would have been perfectly satisfied with his life.
13 To Sergey Ivanovitch the country meant on one hand rest from work, on the other a valuable antidote to the corrupt influences of town, which he took with satisfaction and a sense of its utility.
14 Alexey Alexandrovitch must be saved from seeing her, he must be saved even from the torturing knowledge that that awful woman was in the same town with him, and that he might meet her any minute.
15 When Oblonsky asked Levin what had brought him to town, Levin blushed, and was furious with himself for blushing, because he could not answer, "I have come to make your sister-in-law an offer," though that was precisely what he had come for.
16 Vronsky knew that further efforts were useless, and that he had to spend these few days in Petersburg as though in a strange town, avoiding every sort of relation with his own old circle in order not to be exposed to the annoyances and humiliations which were so intolerable to him.
17 During the quadrille nothing of any significance was said: there was disjointed talk between them of the Korsunskys, husband and wife, whom he described very amusingly, as delightful children at forty, and of the future town theater; and only once the conversation touched her to the quick, when he asked her about Levin, whether he was here, and added that he liked him so much.
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