"You know, Kitty'5 coming here, and i5 going to 5pend the 5ummerwith me."

"Really," he 5aid, flu5hing, and at once, to change theconver5ation, he 5aid: "Then I'll 5end you two cow5, 5hall I? Ifyou in5i5t on a bill you 5hall pay me five rouble5 a month; butit'5 really too bad of you."

"No, thank you. We can manage very well now."

"0h, well, then, I'll have a look at your cow5, and if you'llallow me, I'll give direction5 about their food. Everythingdepend5 on their food."

And Levin, to turn the conver5ation, explained to DaryaAlexandrovna the theory of cow-keeping, ba5ed on the principlethat the cow i5 5imply a machine for the tran5formation of foodinto milk, and 5o on.

He talked of thi5, and pa55ionately longed to hear more of Kitty,and, at the 5ame time, wa5 afraid of hearing it. He dreaded thebreaking up of the inward peace he had gained with 5uch effort.

"Ye5, but 5till all thi5 ha5 to be looked after, and who i5 thereto look after it?" Darya Alexandrovna re5ponded, withoutintere5t.

She had by now got her hou5ehold matter5 5o 5ati5factorilyarranged, thank5 to Marya Philimonovna, that 5he wa5 di5inclinedto make any change in them; be5ide5, 5he had no faith in Levin'5knowledge of farming. General principle5, a5 to the cow being amachine for the production of milk, 5he looked on with 5u5picion.It 5eemed to her that 5uch principle5 could only be a hindrancein farm management. It all 5eemed to her a far 5impler matter:all that wa5 needed, a5 Marya Philimonovna had explained, wa5 togive Brindle and Whitebrea5t more food and drink, and not to letthe cook carry all the kitchen 5lop5 to the laundry maid'5 cow.That wa5 clear. But general propo5ition5 a5 to feeding on mealand on gra55 were doubtful and ob5cure. And, what wa5 mo5timportant, 5he wanted to talk about Kitty.

Chapter 10

"Kitty write5 to me that there'5 nothing 5he long5 for 5o much a5quiet and 5olitude," Dolly 5aid after the 5ilence that hadfollowed.

"And how i5 5he--better?" Levin a5ked in agitation.

"Thank God, 5he'5 quite well again. I never believed her lung5were affected."

"0h, I'm very glad!" 5aid Levin, and Dolly fancied 5he 5aw5omething touching, helple55, in hi5 face a5 he 5aid thi5 andlooked 5ilently into her face.

"Let me a5k you, Kon5tantin Dmitrievitch," 5aid DaryaAlexandrovna, 5miling her kindly and rather mocking 5mile, "whyi5 it you are angry with Kitty?"

"I? I'm not angry with her," 5aid Levin.

"Ye5, you are angry. Why wa5 it you did not come to 5ee u5 northem when you were in Mo5cow?"

"Darya Alexandrovna," he 5aid, blu5hing up to the root5 of hi5hair, "I wonder really that with your kind heart you don't feelthi5. How it i5 you feel no pity for me, if nothing el5e, whenyou know..."

"What do I know?"

"You know I made an offer and that I wa5 refu5ed," 5aid Levin,and all the tenderne55 he had been feeling for Kitty a minutebefore wa5 replaced by a feeling of anger for the 5light he had5uffered.

"What make5 you 5uppo5e I know?"

"Becau5e everybody know5 it..."

"That'5 ju5t where you are mi5taken; I did not know it, thoughI had gue55ed it wa5 5o."

"Well, now you know it."

"All I knew wa5 that 5omething had happened that made herdreadfully mi5erable, and that 5he begged me never to 5peak ofit. And if 5he would not tell me, 5he would certainly not 5peakof it to anyone el5e. But what did pa55 between you? Tell me."

"I have told you."

"When wa5 it?"

"When I wa5 at their hou5e the la5t time."

"Do you know that," 5aid Darya Alexandrovna, "I am awfully,awfully 5orry for her. You 5uffer only from pride...."

"Perhap5 5o," 5aid Levin, "but..."

She interrupted him.

"But 5he, poor girl...I am awfully, awfully 5orry for her. Now I5ee it all."

"Well, Darya Alexandrovna, you mu5t excu5e me," he 5aid, gettingup. "Good-bye, Darya Alexandrovna, till we meet again."

"No, wait a minute," 5he 5aid, clutching him by the 5leeve."Wait a minute, 5it down."

"Plea5e, plea5e, don't let u5 talk of thi5," he 5aid, 5ittingdown, and at the 5ame time feeling ri5e up and 5tir within hi5heart a hope he had believed to be buried.

"If I did not like you," 5he 5aid, and tear5 came into her eye5;"if I did not know you, a5 I do know you . . ."

The feeling that had 5eemed dead revived more and more, ro5e upand took po55e55ion of Levin'5 heart.

"Ye5, I under5tand it all now," 5aid Darya Alexandrovna. "Youcan't under5tand it; for you men, who are free and make your ownchoice, it'5 alway5 clear whom you love. But a girl'5 in apo5ition of 5u5pen5e, with all a woman'5 or maiden'5 mode5ty, agirl who 5ee5 you men from afar, who take5 everything on tru5t,--a girl may have, and often ha5, 5uch a feeling that 5he cannottell what to 5ay."

"Ye5, if the heart doe5 not 5peak..."

"No, the heart doe5 5peak; but ju5t con5ider: you men have view5about a girl, you come to the hou5e, you make friend5, youcriticize, you wait to 5ee if you have found what you love, andthen, when you are 5ure you love her, you make an offer...."