Part 6. Chapter 32.

Before Vronsky's departure for the elections, Anna had reflected that the scenes constantly repeated between them each time he left home, might only make him cold to her instead of attaching him to her, and resolved to do all she could to control herself so as to bear the parting with composure. But the cold, severe glance with which he had looked at her when he came to tell her he was going had wounded her, and before he had started her peace of mind was destroyed. Mais le regard froid et sévère avec lequel il l'avait regardée quand il était venu lui dire qu'il partait l'avait blessée, et avant qu'il n'ait commencé, sa tranquillité d'esprit avait été détruite.

In solitude afterwards, thinking over that glance which had expressed his right to freedom, she came, as she always did, to the same point—the sense of her own humiliation. "He has the right to go away when and where he chooses. „Jis turi teisę išvykti, kai ir kur pasirenka. Not simply to go away, but to leave me. He has every right, and I have none. But knowing that, he ought not to do it. What has he done, though?… He looked at me with a cold, severe expression. Mais qu'a-t-il fait?… Il me regarda avec une expression froide et sévère. Of course that is something indefinable, impalpable, but it has never been so before, and that glance means a great deal," she thought. "That glance shows the beginning of indifference." And though she felt sure that a coldness was beginning, there was nothing she could do, she could not in any way alter her relations to him. Et si elle était sûre qu'une froideur commençait, elle ne pouvait rien faire, elle ne pouvait en aucun cas altérer ses relations avec lui. Just as before, only by love and by charm could she keep him. And so, just as before, only by occupation in the day, by morphine at night, could she stifle the fearful thought of what would be if he ceased to love her. It is true there was still one means; not to keep him—for that she wanted nothing more than his love—but to be nearer to him, to be in such a position that he would not leave her. Il est vrai qu'il y avait encore un moyen; non pas pour le garder - pour cela elle ne voulait rien de plus que son amour - mais pour être plus proche de lui, pour être dans une position telle qu'il ne la quitterait pas. That means was divorce and marriage. And she began to long for that, and made up her mind to agree to it the first time he or Stiva approached her on the subject. Et elle a commencé à aspirer à cela, et a décidé de l'accepter la première fois que lui ou Stiva l'a approchée sur le sujet.

Absorbed in such thoughts, she passed five days without him, the five days that he was to be at the elections.

Walks, conversation with Princess Varvara, visits to the hospital, and, most of all, reading—reading of one book after another—filled up her time. But on the sixth day, when the coachman came back without him, she felt that now she was utterly incapable of stifling the thought of him and of what he was doing there, just at that time her little girl was taken ill. Anna began to look after her, but even that did not distract her mind, especially as the illness was not serious. However hard she tried, she could not love this little child, and to feign love was beyond her powers. Towards the evening of that day, still alone, Anna was in such a panic about him that she decided to start for the town, but on second thoughts wrote him the contradictory letter that Vronsky received, and without reading it through, sent it off by a special messenger. Vers le soir de ce jour-là, toujours seule, Anna était tellement paniquée à son sujet qu'elle décida de partir pour la ville, mais à la réflexion, lui écrivit la lettre contradictoire que Vronsky reçut, et sans la lire, l'envoya par un messager spécial. Tos dienos vakare, dar būdama viena, Anna buvo panikoje dėl jo, kad nusprendė pradėti miestą, tačiau pagalvojusi parašė prieštaringą laišką, kurį gavo Vronskis, ir jo neperskaičiusi išsiuntė specialus pasiuntinys. The next morning she received his letter and regretted her own. Le lendemain matin, elle a reçu sa lettre et a regretté la sienne. She dreaded a repetition of the severe look he had flung at her at parting, especially when he knew that the baby was not dangerously ill. Elle redoutait une répétition du regard sévère qu'il lui avait lancé en se séparant, surtout quand il savait que le bébé n'était pas dangereusement malade. But still she was glad she had written to him. At this moment Anna was positively admitting to herself that she was a burden to him, that he would relinquish his freedom regretfully to return to her, and in spite of that she was glad he was coming. En ce moment, Anna admettait franchement qu'elle était un fardeau pour lui, qu'il renoncerait à sa liberté à regret pour revenir vers elle, et malgré cela, elle était contente qu'il vienne. Let him weary of her, but he would be here with her, so that she would see him, would know of every action he took. Qu'il se lasse d'elle, mais il serait ici avec elle, pour qu'elle le voie, sache toutes les actions qu'il entreprend.

She was sitting in the drawing room near a lamp, with a new volume of Taine, and as she read, listening to the sound of the wind outside, and every minute expecting the carriage to arrive. Several times she had fancied she heard the sound of wheels, but she had been mistaken. Plusieurs fois, elle avait cru entendre le bruit des roues, mais elle s'était trompée. At last she heard not the sound of wheels, but the coachman's shout and the dull rumble in the covered entry. Enfin elle n'entendit pas le bruit des roues, mais le cri du cocher et le grondement sourd dans l'entrée couverte. Even Princess Varvara, playing patience, confirmed this, and Anna, flushing hotly, got up; but instead of going down, as she had done twice before, she stood still. She suddenly felt ashamed of her duplicity, but even more she dreaded how he might meet her. Elle eut soudain honte de sa duplicité, mais elle redoutait encore plus comment il pourrait la rencontrer. All feeling of wounded pride had passed now; she was only afraid of the expression of his displeasure. Tout sentiment d'orgueil blessé était passé maintenant; elle n'avait peur que de l'expression de son mécontentement. She remembered that her child had been perfectly well again for the last two days. She felt positively vexed with her for getting better from the very moment her letter was sent off. Then she thought of him, that he was here, all of him, with his hands, his eyes. She heard his voice. And forgetting everything, she ran joyfully to meet him.

"Well, how is Annie?" he said timidly from below, looking up to Anna as she ran down to him. dit-il timidement d'en bas, levant les yeux vers Anna alors qu'elle courait vers lui.

He was sitting on a chair, and a footman was pulling off his warm over-boot. Il était assis sur une chaise et un valet de pied retirait sa surbotte chaude.

"Oh, she is better." "And you?" he said, shaking himself.

She took his hand in both of hers, and drew it to her waist, never taking her eyes off him.

"Well, I'm glad," he said, coldly scanning her, her hair, her dress, which he knew she had put on for him. All was charming, but how many times it had charmed him! And the stern, stony expression that she so dreaded settled upon his face. Et l'expression sévère et pierreuse qu'elle redoutait tant se posa sur son visage.

"Well, I'm glad. And are you well?" he said, wiping his damp beard with his handkerchief and kissing her hand. dit-il en essuyant sa barbe humide avec son mouchoir et en lui baisant la main.

"Never mind," she thought, "only let him be here, and so long as he's here he cannot, he dare not, cease to love me." "Peu importe," pensa-t-elle, "laissez-le seulement être ici, et tant qu'il est là, il ne peut pas, il n'ose pas, cesser de m'aimer." The evening was spent happily and gaily in the presence of Princess Varvara, who complained to him that Anna had been taking morphine in his absence.

"What am I to do? "Que dois-je faire? I couldn't sleep…. My thoughts prevented me. When he's here I never take it—hardly ever." Quand il est ici, je ne le prends jamais - presque jamais. " He told her about the election, and Anna knew how by adroit questions to bring him to what gave him most pleasure—his own success. Il lui a parlé de l'élection, et Anna a su, par des questions adroites, l'amener à ce qui lui faisait le plus plaisir: son propre succès. She told him of everything that interested him at home; and all that she told him was of the most cheerful description. Elle lui a raconté tout ce qui l'intéressait chez lui; et tout ce qu'elle lui a dit était de la plus joyeuse description.

But late in the evening, when they were alone, Anna, seeing that she had regained complete possession of him, wanted to erase the painful impression of the glance he had given her for her letter. Mais tard dans la soirée, quand ils étaient seuls, Anna, voyant qu'elle avait repris possession de lui, voulut effacer la douloureuse impression du regard qu'il lui avait donné pour sa lettre. She said:

"Tell me frankly, you were vexed at getting my letter, and you didn't believe me?" As soon as she had said it, she felt that however warm his feelings were to her, he had not forgiven her for that.

"Yes," he said, "the letter was so strange. First, Annie ill, and then you thought of coming yourself." "It was all the truth." "Oh, I don't doubt it." "Yes, you do doubt it. You are vexed, I see." "Not for one moment. I'm only vexed, that's true, that you seem somehow unwilling to admit that there are duties…" Je suis seulement vexé, c'est vrai, que vous semblez réticent à admettre qu'il y a des devoirs… " "The duty of going to a concert…" "But we won't talk about it," he said. "Why not talk about it?" she said.

"I only meant to say that matters of real importance may turn up. «Je voulais seulement dire que des questions d'une importance réelle peuvent survenir. Now, for instance, I shall have to go to Moscow to arrange about the house…. Oh, Anna, why are you so irritable? Don't you know that I can't live without you?" "If so," said Anna, her voice suddenly changing, "it means that you are sick of this life…. Yes, you will come for a day and go away, as men do…" "Anna, that's cruel. I am ready to give up my whole life." Esu pasirengęs mesti visą gyvenimą “. But she did not hear him.

"If you go to Moscow, I will go too. I will not stay here. Either we must separate or else live together." "Why, you know, that's my one desire. But for that…" "We must get a divorce. I will write to him. I see I cannot go on like this…. Je vois que je ne peux pas continuer comme ça…. But I will come with you to Moscow." "You talk as if you were threatening me. But I desire nothing so much as never to be parted from you," said Vronsky, smiling. Bet aš nieko nenoriu, kad niekada neatsiskirtum nuo tavęs “, - šypsodamasis sakė Vronskis. But as he said these words there gleamed in his eyes not merely a cold look, but the vindictive look of a man persecuted and made cruel. Mais comme il a dit ces mots, il a brillé dans ses yeux non seulement un regard froid, mais le regard vindicatif d'un homme persécuté et rendu cruel.

She saw the look and correctly divined its meaning.

"If so, it's a calamity!" "Als dat zo is, is het een ramp!" that glance told her. It was a moment's impression, but she never forgot it. Anna wrote to her husband asking him about a divorce, and towards the end of November, taking leave of Princess Varvara, who wanted to go to Petersburg, she went with Vronsky to Moscow. Anna parašė savo vyrui klausdama apie skyrybas, o lapkričio pabaigoje, atostogaudama princesei Varvarai, norėjusiai išvykti į Peterburgą, ji kartu su Vronsky nuvyko į Maskvą. Expecting every day an answer from Alexey Alexandrovitch, and after that the divorce, they now established themselves together like married people. Attendant chaque jour une réponse d'Alexey Alexandrovitch, et après le divorce, ils se sont désormais établis ensemble comme des personnes mariées. Kiekvieną dieną tikėdamiesi atsakymo iš Aleksejaus Aleksandrovičiaus, o po skyrybų jie dabar įsitvirtino kaip vedę žmonės.