" "My use as a man," said Vronsky, "is that life's worth nothing to me.

And that I've enough bodily energy to cut my way into their ranks, and to trample on them or fall--I know that.

I'm glad there's something to give my life for, for it's not simply useless but loathsome to me.

Anyone's welcome to it.

" And his jaw twitched impatiently from the incessant gnawing toothache, that prevented him from even speaking with a natural expression.