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Ating into his expression, while she mentally put herself in Anna's
place. She liked him so much just now with his eager interest that she
saw how Anna could be in love with him. Chapter 21 "No, I think the
princess is tired, and horses don't interest her," Vronsky said to Anna,
who wanted to go on to the stables, where Sviazhsky wished to see the
new stallion. "You go on, while I escort the princess home, and we'll
have a little talk," he said, "if you would like that?" he added,
turning to her. "I know nothing about horses, and I shall be delighted,"
answered Darya Alexandrovna, rather astonished. She saw by Vronsky's
face that he wanted something from her. She was not mistaken. As soon as
they had passed through the little gate back into the garden, he looked
in the direction Anna had taken, and having made sure that she could
neither hear nor see them, he began: "You guess that I have something I
want to say to you," he said, looking at her with laughing eyes. "I am
not wrong in believing you to be a friend of Anna's." He took off his
hat, and taking out his handkerchief, wiped his head, which was growing
bald. Darya Alexandrovna made no answer, and merely stared at him with
dismay. When she was left alone with him, she suddenly felt afraid; his
laughing eyes and stern expression scared her. The most diverse
suppositions as to what he was about to speak of to her flashed into her
brain. "He is going to beg me to come to stay with them with the
children, and I shall have to refuse; or to create a set that will
receive Anna in Moscow.... Or isn't it Vassenka Veslovsky and his
relations with Anna? Or perhaps about Kitty, that he feels he was to
blame?" All her conjectures were unpleasant, but she did not guess what
he real
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