I'm appealing to you" ("not as an injured husband," Stepan Arkadyevitch was going to say, but afraid of wrecking his negotiation by this, he changed the words) "not as a statesman" (which did not sound _a propos_), "but simply as a man, and a good-hearted man and a Christian.

You must have pity on her," he said.

"That is, in what way precisely?" Karenin said softly.

"Yes, pity on her.