From one point of view this troubled him, but on the other side he felt that it was better so.

" At first there will be, as this time, something undefined kept back, and then she will get used to it.

In any case I can give up anything for her, but not my masculine independence," he thought.

In September Levin moved to Moscow for Kitty's confinement.

He had spent a whole month in Moscow with nothing to do, when Sergey Ivanovitch, who had property in the Kashinsky province, and took great interest in the question of the approaching elections, made ready to set off to the elections.