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Karenin takes custody of Anna's baby girl. Starring: Nicola Pagett, Eric Porter, Stuart Wilson, David Harries, Robert Swann, Caroline Langrishe.
Karenin takes custody of Anna's baby girl. Starring: Nicola Pagett, Eric Porter, Stuart Wilson, David Harries, Robert Swann, Caroline Langrishe.
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01:00Ugly, ugly. That's what weeping does for you so no more tears.
01:08It's over.
01:11Lydia Ivanovna she will make sure of that. She and Alexei.
01:16Between them they'll teach my son to hate me.
01:21Come in.
01:22The baby's dressed ma'am. Do take her now. Thank you.
01:33Nurse Pepper? Yes ma'am?
01:35Is everything satisfactory? Have you settled in?
01:40As well as it can be ma'am.
01:42In a foreign land you're not used to.
01:44Yes yes of course.
01:45But you'll soon get the way of it.
01:48How are things between you and Sasha? Is language a difficulty?
01:51Not really.
01:53Of course she hasn't a word of English.
01:55And although I picked up quite a bit of Russian in my last place.
01:59Oh yes yes of course with um...
02:02Princess Galensky in London. Does that not help?
02:05It doesn't seem much good without Sasha.
02:08But there.
02:09She's a sort of peasant isn't she ma'am?
02:11More like a...
02:13Oh more like a cow really than a civilized woman.
02:17However as long as she does things my way and keeps herself clean
02:21we'll get along very well.
02:23Yes yes of course.
02:24You'll let me know if you need anything?
02:26Yes ma'am.
02:36Oh we have got a dragon haven't we?
02:39English drill sergeant.
02:40She'll keep us in order. She'll tell us what to do.
02:45Oh you are beautiful.
02:48I do love you.
02:52It's just you see.
02:54It's Serioja.
02:56I'll never see him again. Never.
03:00But perhaps for him that would be best.
03:03So I must think of that.
03:05Not of myself.
03:06And you'll help me.
03:10Won't you?
03:10Won't you?
03:10I'll never see him.
03:14Oh no.
03:14No.
03:15No.
03:15Oh no.
03:16We'll see you next time.
03:46You know, I always give ready-made dresses to my maids.
03:55For Christmas, I mean, and at Easter.
03:59You see, Agafia?
04:01The jam's setting perfectly well with acne water.
04:03We use water, always hand.
04:06Well, it's much better to go.
04:10No, Kitty, you'll forget your condition.
04:13That wouldn't be easy.
04:16Oh, I'll do it.
04:27Mmm, how the children will lick this up with their tea.
04:31You know, Agafia, when we were young, we couldn't believe the grown-ups despised the scum.
04:35We thought it was the best bit of the jam.
04:38When it begins to set, it's ready.
04:41Just boil it up a little longer, Agafia.
04:43Agafia, drag these flies.
04:47Whatever I do, it won't make any difference.
04:55Be careful.
04:56Here.
04:57Not too close to the heat.
04:59Well, too long already, if you ask me.
05:02Oh, to keep all the better.
05:03You know that your ice has begun to thaw very early.
05:06Mama?
05:07Mama?
05:09Kitty's badly in need of a really cold storeroom.
05:12We must speak to Tosia.
05:23Oh, it smells delicious.
05:25And I'll tell you something.
05:27Mama says your pickling is so good, she never tasted better.
05:31You needn't try to console me, ma'am.
05:34Ah, here's the master.
05:37No, ma'am.
05:38Just a look at you and him together.
05:40That makes me happy.
05:45Please take my advice and cover the jam with paper soaked in rum.
05:49That'll keep perfectly well, even without ice.
05:51Oh, this heat.
05:53Costia's too energetic for me.
05:55We've walked all over the home farm looking at wagons.
05:58Do you good?
05:59Kitty, kitty, my love.
06:01How do you feel?
06:02Very well.
06:04Though dear Mama insists on treating me like an invalid.
06:08How did you get on?
06:09I'm very pleased.
06:10The new wagon sold three times as much as the old car.
06:12Good.
06:13That is very peaceful.
06:15Where are all the children?
06:16Out in the woods with Miss Poole and Rosina.
06:19Let's take them for a bath after tea.
06:20Dolly approves.
06:23How's the jam, McGarfier?
06:25How's the new method suit you?
06:26Better with water.
06:28Better keep an eye on it, will you, Mom, while I fetch out the pots?
06:34It's wonderful, isn't it?
06:39I do believe she accepts me at last.
06:41She dotes on you.
06:43And so do I.
06:45By the way, I had a letter today
06:48for my sister Anna.
06:52Yes, she's at Vostryshenskoy.
06:54Splendid estate, I hear.
06:55I haven't been there myself.
06:56Splendid, I'm sure.
06:58It's only a matter of 20 miles from here, Levin.
07:00Do you know?
07:01No.
07:02Anna's heard that we're all staying with you.
07:04She'd appreciate a visit from any of us that care to go over.
07:06No doubt.
07:08Are you going, Steva?
07:09I can't, I'm afraid.
07:10Not yet, anyway.
07:12You know I have to leave tomorrow.
07:13Ah, yes.
07:15Yes, of course.
07:16I'd like to visit your sister, but Kitty mustn't travel.
07:20I should think not indeed.
07:21In any case, Steva, I...
07:22Quite out of the question.
07:25I shall go.
07:27Dolly, my dear.
07:28I shall go because Anna is my sister.
07:31But apart from that, I feel sorry for Anna.
07:34And I'm fond of her.
07:36She's been a good friend to me.
07:38So, Kostya, if you'd be so kind,
07:40may I have the use of a carriage tomorrow?
07:42Yes.
07:43Yes, of course.
07:57It's Dolly.
08:10Alexa, it's my Dolly.
08:15Dolly.
08:16Oh, Anna.
08:21You have no idea how pleased we are to see you.
08:25Thank you for your welcome.
08:27Now, Anna, where shall we put the princess?
08:29The big balcony room, I think.
08:30No, no, that's too far off.
08:32She'll be better in the corner room.
08:35Dolly, this is Count Petritsky.
08:37He's a rogue and a wretch,
08:39but he's our very good friend.
08:41Pierre, my sister-in-law,
08:43Princess Oblonsky.
08:45Enchanted princess.
08:47Now, come along.
08:48Come along.
08:49Come along.
08:50How was your journey?
08:51Well, I'm very tired of it.
08:52I'm very tired of it.
08:54Alexei, tell everyone that Dolly is here.
08:57We'll meet at luncheon.
09:04There.
09:05Will this do?
09:05Is this all right for you?
09:08It's extremely elegant.
09:11Oh, it's lovely, Anna.
09:12Everything about this house is quite beautiful.
09:17And you...
09:18You have a view.
09:21Isn't that charming?
09:23Oh, indeed, yes.
09:25Alexei's grandfather built the house.
09:27Afterwards, it became dreadfully neglected.
09:29But Alexei, I didn't expect it, you know,
09:32but he became enamored of it.
09:33And when he puts his mind to a thing,
09:35there's nothing he can't do.
09:37Not just the house, the whole estate.
09:39He's planned, organized,
09:41become the perfect landowner.
09:43The servants' cottages,
09:44the stud for racehorses,
09:45everything is designed economically.
09:48He reckons every penny.
09:49But surely he's a rich man.
09:51Oh, yes, yes.
09:52When it's a matter of tens of thousands,
09:53he doesn't think of money.
09:55The latest thing is a hospital
09:57for all the local people.
09:59He's building it himself,
10:00I mean with his own money.
10:02He has an architect, of course.
10:03A clever little man, you'll meet him,
10:05but all the ideas are his own.
10:07You do love him.
10:09You're happy.
10:11Are you surprised?
10:14Do you wonder how I can be happy in my position?
10:17Well, all I can say is that I am.
10:20Especially since we came here.
10:22Something magical has happened to me.
10:24It's like waking up after a horrible dream
10:26and finding your terrors no longer exist.
10:30Do you think me wicked?
10:32No.
10:33Why haven't you written to me?
10:36Oh, I wanted to.
10:37I hadn't the courage.
10:38Hadn't courage to write to me?
10:41People,
10:42many people whom I thought of as friends
10:45have not been kind.
10:47Especially in Petersburg.
10:48Yes, I imagine so.
10:50I've always thought the people of that sort
10:52would make things hard for you.
10:53Yes, Dolly.
10:55Hard.
10:58You know the saying is cold as charity.
11:01Well, I have suffered much coldness
11:03and I've had little charity.
11:04But you can't have imagined that I could be like that.
11:07Oh, perhaps not.
11:07But you begin to be afraid that everyone you like
11:09will turn out to be an enemy.
11:10I could never be that.
11:12No?
11:12Well, then tell me.
11:15Tell me honestly.
11:17What do you think of me?
11:19I don't think anything.
11:20I've always loved you.
11:23And, well, if you love someone,
11:25you love the whole person just as they are
11:27and not as you'd like them to be.
11:28All your sins,
11:33if you had any,
11:34would be forgiven for this visit
11:35and for what you've just said.
11:46She's enchanting.
11:48Oh, you're delightful.
11:51And so advanced.
11:53Is she really only eight months?
11:55Yes, yes,
11:56although it seems a lifetime since.
11:59Well, that's one nightmare at least that's over.
12:03What I was wondering was,
12:05is she completely weaned?
12:08I think you want to know something else.
12:11Her name is Anna,
12:12after me,
12:12but we call her Annie.
12:14As for her surname,
12:15she has none.
12:16Legally, I believe she's a Karenian
12:18and that worries Alexei.
12:20Not you.
12:23Well, we'll talk about it later.
12:26Dolly, dear, this is Nurse Pepper.
12:27She's come all the way from England
12:29to rule over us.
12:31Nurse, this is my sister-in-law,
12:33Princess Oblonsky.
12:34Pleased to meet your highness.
12:36I'm not a royal.
12:38Just say ma'am, nurse,
12:39as you do with me.
12:40Very well, ma'am.
12:44How often must I tell you
12:46when the child dribbles,
12:48wipe her face.
12:50Oh, heavens, woman,
12:51won't you ever learn?
12:52See?
12:58Have you brought up the wind?
13:02How many teeth has she got?
13:05Let me see.
13:06Three, I believe.
13:07Oh, no, excuse me, ma'am.
13:09Four.
13:10Oh, really?
13:11Yes, came through two days ago.
13:13Look.
13:14Oh, yes.
13:16What a clever girl.
13:20Dolly, I think we'd let it go now.
13:34Yes, it is often a grief to me
13:36that I'm so useless here in the nursery.
13:38It wasn't like that with my first child.
13:40I should have thought it.
13:41Oh, no.
13:41By the way, I've seen Sereoza.
13:45I have.
13:46But I'll tell you all about it tonight.
13:48Meanwhile...
13:49Ah, what is it?
13:52Oh, what on earth are they doing?
13:55It's a new game called lawn tennis.
13:58The English invented it a few years ago.
14:00Oh, they must be very frivolous people.
14:01All they seem to do is play childish games.
14:03My nurse, Peppa, isn't frivolous,
14:05and any game she played wouldn't be childish.
14:07Anyway, lawn tennis is all the rage.
14:10Even in America, I believe, and here.
14:13Well, our friends like it, so do I.
14:16Do you play?
14:17Indeed, I do, and so do you.
14:19I?
14:19Oh, never.
14:29Oh, right.
14:31Now, friendly.
14:32Change it.
14:33Oh, come on, Dolly.
14:40Oh, Dolly.
14:41Oh, Dolly.
14:43Change it.
14:46Now, 40.
14:50Good run.
14:51Oh, I'm sure.
14:53Yeah.
14:55Oh.
14:56That's right.
14:5715, 40.
14:59Good shot.
14:59Dolly, over again.
15:0615, 40.
15:11Oh.
15:12Our game.
15:13We won.
15:14You see, I said it was impossible.
15:17It only needs practice.
15:18And certain gifts which I don't possess.
15:22Will you forgive me if I stop now?
15:23No, by all means, let's both stop.
15:25Oh, no, please.
15:26Don't let me.
15:26Paula, Veslowski, come and beat the Invincible.
15:31I'm prepared to try.
15:33Much as I adore you, Baroness,
15:35this is a question of skill.
15:37So my partner must be Anna Arkadievna.
15:41To play this superb game, one must be inspired.
15:45I dare say.
15:47But when Pierre and I play together,
15:48we do nothing but quarrel.
15:50What you need, my boy,
15:51is a little less inspiration for more concentration.
15:54We'll take you on.
15:55Yes, Anna?
15:58Isn't it usual to spin a coin for partners?
16:06Heads.
16:08Tails.
16:10We'll show them who's invincible.
16:12Shall we spin for service?
16:27In our circle, you know, certain freedoms are permitted.
16:31Do you wish to sit down or shall we stroll?
16:33There's something I want to say to you.
16:35Then stroll by all means.
16:37Do I first?
16:45Ready.
16:46Ready.
16:46Ready.
16:52Left car.
16:56Yeah.
16:56Yeah.
16:57would you like to walk on or should we sit here thank you
17:15as you can see Anna is very happy but will she remain so
17:38we're bound together for life everything will be hold sacred
17:45we have a child we may have other children the law is such that the implications are intolerable
17:57my daughter is not my daughter but karenin's the law says so
18:05someday we may have a son and by law he would be a karenin
18:11he would not be heir to my name or property the prospect is so bitter that
18:19well I've tried to talk to Anna about it but after everything she's been through
18:26all she wants is to forget the past and ignore the future she simply closes her eyes
18:35and I mean really closes her eyes
18:37I can see you've noticed well I understand why
18:47besides there's another thing that affects me it's quite wrong for a man to idle his time away
18:50he needs an occupation
18:52but I hear you have so many the hospital district affairs all the committees improving farms
18:59that's it's good work honest work and I'm proud to be doing it
19:03but Anna do you mean are you saying that she objects to your being so occupied
19:14no no not that it's not that at all
19:16not that at all the point is this I want children to inherit what I have made
19:25I want children of my own
19:28I conceive the feelings of a man who knows that his children will not be his
19:35that they will legally belong to a man who must hate them
19:40well can you imagine anything more terrible no no I can't
19:49count your blessings princess indeed I try to advise your good husband to do the same
19:58how can I help you do you know that in order to adopt a child you must petition the czar
20:05no and before you are allowed petition a divorce is essential and that depends on Anna on Anna yes
20:18Karenin agreed to a divorce I thought steve had arranged it he had practically and I feel certain
20:24Karenin wouldn't refuse now he said plainly that if she expressed the desire he would agree
20:32it's only a matter of writing to him then why but it it is Anna who must write Anna
20:43and he knows very well that she can't bear even to think of him
20:50and yet she is the one who must write and appeal to his generosity
20:56there's a sort of stubborn cruelty in that man
20:58well then she must write however painful it may be
21:01you do see that
21:04it's vitally important for her that she should
21:08as it is for me
21:11and you want me to try and persuade her
21:13Dolly I'm clutching at you quite shamelessly
21:19in the hope of salvation
21:22then I will try of course I will
21:24what puzzles me though is why she doesn't think of it herself
21:38yes
21:41well Dolly
21:43I've had a delightful day
21:45tomorrow
21:47it will be even better
21:49we will go around the hospital and the stables
21:51no I'm afraid not I have to leave tomorrow
21:54no no please
21:55truly I must
21:55it's the children you know
21:57oh yes yes the children
21:59and Kitty's got enough to do
22:00well there's my mother and other guests
22:02Steve ascends his love he hopes to be over to see you soon
22:05I shall like that
22:09tell me about Kitty
22:11is she still angry with me
22:13angry
22:14oh no
22:15oh and she is happy I hope so
22:18they say Levin is a very nice man
22:20he's much more than very nice
22:21I don't know a better man
22:23and they're going to have a baby
22:25oh that is good I am glad
22:28much more than very nice what do you mean by that
22:32he's
22:33well he's a sort of saint
22:35what
22:36but a warm saint
22:37a warm saint I like that
22:39he's kind generous
22:42quick-tempered
22:43he affects to deny religion
22:45a saint without religion
22:46it's strange isn't it
22:48and yet all his ideas and his actions are those of a Christian man
22:52fortunate Kitty
22:53indeed yes
22:56but Anna tell me about yourself
22:59there's such a lot I want to hear
23:02I've had a talk with
23:05with Alexei I know
23:07I saw you walking together while I was playing that absurd game
23:12so what did he say to you
23:16he said that he suffers on your account
23:19and on his own
23:21well egotism if you like but a noble egotism
23:24he wants to make your daughter legitimate and to be your husband
23:27he is my husband
23:28but legally
23:30Anna it's so important for you and for your children
23:32what children
23:33why Annie
23:34and the others that will come
23:36I shall have no more children
23:38how can you know that
23:39I shall not because I don't intend to
23:43but Anna
23:44but Dolly
23:46are you really so ignorant
23:49oh well
23:50I was too but after my illness I spoke to the doctor
23:54the specialist and he told me of certain means by which a woman can
23:58avoid conception
23:59the doctor
24:00obviously
24:03impossible
24:05haven't you ever wondered why some women never have more than one or two children
24:10yes
24:11yes I have
24:13but but I thought it was nature was kind sometimes perhaps but science is more reliable
24:19oh you are horrified
24:21it is quite harmless you know
24:23isn't it immoral why don't forget I have a choice of two alternatives either to be
24:31with child that is an invalid or to be the friend and companion of my husband
24:35practically my husband for you there might be objections but for me remember I am not his
24:42wife he loves me as long as he loves me and how am I to keep his love like this
24:48think of your life Dolly before you condemn me oh I don't condemn you it's just that why should I
24:57wish for children think what they would suffer by the very fact of their birth they're forced to be
25:03ashamed of their mother their father their very existence but isn't that exactly why was I given
25:07intelligence reason if I must not use them to avoid bringing unwanted children into the world
25:14I was going to say isn't that why you should get a divorce if it's possible yes if it's possible
25:22but surely your husband consented Steve told me I don't want to talk about it why not Anna why not
25:30I'm sure you look too much on the dark side I try not to look at all but you ought to do
25:36everything possible so that you can marry Count Vronsky then if you have children the children
25:41he so desperately want what can I do nothing you tell me to marry Alexei do you imagine that I don't
25:49think about that not one day not one hour passes without my thinking about it I try not to because
25:55it may drive me mad drive me mad so I can't sleep for thinking so I take morphine because you know
26:09we must sleep but the trouble with morphine laudanum whatever you take
26:20oh never mind about that let us talk calmly about divorce in the first place my husband would not
26:28agree he did though oh not now he's completely under the influence of a religious fanatic a woman
26:35called Lydia Ivanovna he won't consent you can but try suppose I do what would it mean I hate him yes
26:40but I accept the fact that I've wronged him so I depend upon his generosity and I humiliate myself by
26:48writing him a begging letter then what happens I receive either an insulting refusal or I get his consent
26:56good I get his consent but my son they will never let me have seriosia and he will grow up despising me in the house
27:08of his father he will know finally that I have abandoned him oh Anna surely this is happening in any case no it's not final as long as
27:19dolly please understand this I love two people equally I think but both more than myself two people
27:31Alexei seriosia I love only these two and the one excludes the other I can't have both but I need both
27:43so nothing matters nothing it will all end one way or another I don't know how although sometimes I think I do but that's why
27:58I don't like to talk about it so don't approach me don't judge me and above all don't advise me because
28:10there is nothing you or anyone else can do good night good night dolly
28:40I think there is nothing you can do good night long as you can do good night
30:40Dolly?
30:42At great length.
30:44You do like her don't you?
30:46Yes I do.
30:48I'm a woman with a great deal of common sense.
31:35So you've decided to go.
31:38It was decided weeks ago.
31:40I hoped I just thought you might change your mind.
31:42You know that's impossible.
31:44You have said that several times.
31:46The elections are so important that you have to be there.
31:48Why are they so important?
31:50Not for me?
31:51Yes for you.
31:52Have I not told you that too?
31:54I don't remember.
31:56Then I'll remind you these are the nobility elections in our province.
32:00For various reasons they've attracted a lot of public attention.
32:04Eminent people will be there from Petersburg, Moscow, even from abroad.
32:09We are to elect a new marshal and as one of the leading landowners in the province it's my duty.
32:14Ah that's it now I remember.
32:16I know duty came into it somewhere.
32:19Will there not also be concerts, dinners, balls?
32:22I believe so.
32:32What a miserable day.
32:36How long will you be gone?
32:38Four or five days.
32:40And four or five nights.
32:42Naturally.
32:43And then?
32:45I beg your pardon?
32:46How soon before you go away and leave me again?
32:48Well I shall have to go to Moscow quite soon to see about the house.
32:51Oh yes yes the house.
32:53That is if you still want to spend the winter there.
32:55If you go to Moscow I shall come too. I will not stay here alone.
32:58There is no question of that.
32:59Isn't there?
33:01Won't there be other duties?
33:03Yes you'll come home for a day but then you'll go again the way all men do.
33:08Tell me about the elections.
33:10Do the other men take their wives?
33:12Some of them I suppose yes.
33:14So they can go to the concerts and the dinners and the balls.
33:16Alexei I have to tell you something.
33:18We must either separate or we live together all the time.
33:20I agree Anna and you know
33:22you know that is all her desire but to make it possible...
33:25I must get a divorce.
33:26Very well very well.
33:27I will write to him.
33:28I will I will write.
33:29But when you go to Moscow I will come too.
33:33You make it sound like a threat.
33:44Alexei.
33:46Alexei.
33:49Dear Alexei.
33:51Take care.
33:53Come home safely.
33:55Oh my dear love I'm sorry.
33:58I'm sorry.
34:04Why do you hurt yourself so much?
34:06God go with you.
34:23And with you Anna.
34:36and you're working too much.
34:37Yes.
34:38And you're dead.
34:39Oh my dear.
34:40And that's the only thing.
34:41That's all I get.
34:42I've been very hungry.
34:43I know you're not hungry.
34:45I'm sorry.
34:46But you've been so hungry.
34:47Yeah.
34:48You're late.
34:49Not the hell.
34:50You're late.
34:51I know they're not hungry.
34:52I can't wait to visit me.
34:53I'm not hungry.
34:54I can't wait to anyone.
34:55I'm hungry.
34:56I'm hungry.
34:57you
35:20Alexei. excuse me. he insists on seeing you. I told him you were occupant.
35:25oh countess who? siriosia of course he knows quite well. is he there? yes. siriosia?
35:35oh come in come in.
35:40come along boy.
35:44you know you can see me anytime you wish. thank you papa.
35:50is something amiss? yes. well tell me then what is it?
35:53it's about to hear castle. is it true that you're sending him away?
35:59sending him? well not exactly. no we agreed mutually.
36:04i don't think he wants to go. does he say so?
36:08even if he has agreed he doesn't want to and i don't want him to. so why must he go?
36:14well we've that is i've come to the conclusion that now that you're at school there's no need for a
36:19to turn. oh you can be coached in certain subjects by specialists in those subjects.
36:26well that's my intention my uh scheme so to speak for your future education.
36:31but you said yourself papa only the other day for my latin french and german.
36:35excuse me for interrupting. do you really think that a young boy can be expected to judge what
36:40is best for him? no certainly not. seriosia this cannot be discussed any further.
36:46i've made my decision and i wish to hear no more on the subject.
36:49but what will happen to him? i'm sure that your dear papa will not be ungenerous to an old servant.
37:10an emotional attachment of that sort a little undesirable.
37:22you were so well advised to be resolute. i uh
37:28i would like you to see this.
37:29so finally and at last she begs for a divorce. have you made up your mind?
37:41not yet. i have to take into consideration the implications. all the implications. the
37:50circumstances are considerably changed. indeed they are my dear friend. moreover if i may
37:55presume you will wish to seek guidance. the guidance? from the being who never fails us when we seek
38:02his counsel and blessing. ah well we must keep you no longer from your valuable work. yes thank you.
38:14as always i'm obliged to you.
38:44at home as you know i'm always busy. it's time for everything but here in
39:01muscow i have nothing to do so nothing gets done. oh poor old costia. sometimes i'm sorry i agreed to
39:07stay with mama and papa. no no kitty. i should have been perfectly all right in the country.
39:13you would be much happier. never once since our marriage have i been anything but happy. truly?
39:20and it's safer for you here.
39:26will it be soon now? very soon i should think. you're not frightened? not a scrap. i am.
39:36well if anything happens you know i'm dining out with steva at the club.
39:46you'll send for me at once. will you do that? if you wish it. i do. though i believe at these times
39:51husbands are better out of the way. i'd like to be with you all the time. all the time.
39:56i'll be with you all the time.
39:57i'll be with you all the time.
39:59well i suppose not. but don't forget. it's my baby too.
40:07i shan't forget that.
40:12how was your visit? was your godmother well?
40:14her age is wonderful.
40:18still adores company in her little salon. papa was amusing on the way home.
40:24he said godmother will insist on sending out her own funeral invitations.
40:29you know the princess maria borisovna at home. 2 30 till the resurrection.
40:36who was there?
40:37among others count bronski. what? did you speak with him? of course dearest.
40:47oh. costia i want to tell you about this because it's important. it isn't. it isn't to me. oh yes.
40:57when papa and i arrived he was there. and for a moment just for a moment costia i was embarrassed.
41:04papa was wonderful as he would be. he went at once to speak to him while i talked to my godmother.
41:10and suddenly suddenly i realized i felt no emotion at all. only indifference.
41:20costia it was such a relief to know that i could meet him and smile and chat as if we were strangers.
41:28no better than that. slight acquaintances.
41:36what did he say?
41:37he mentioned donnelly and steva and you costia. and me?
41:41only to say that while we were in moscow he'd like to meet you again.
41:44did he?
41:45and then he went away and all i wished was that you could have been there.
41:50not in the same room but but watching through a crack in the door.
41:58i'm glad i'm glad i was bound to meet him you know it might have been awkward.
42:03you saw him as an enemy.
42:05yes i i did.
42:07how did you know?
42:09and to have an enemy kitty.
42:12that's a dreadful thing.
42:13some men relish it i think.
42:16but not you.
42:19not you thank god.
42:22no she finds plenty of things to do.
42:25she's developing new interests new resources.
42:26yes i know she told me about them but you feel underneath all that she feels depressed.
42:31well it's not that she's depressed exactly but sometimes she is.
42:35it's this damnable uncertainty.
42:37no don't go living.
42:38now this is one of my old and true friends.
42:41i know you're both acquainted with each other but you must know each other better.
42:46you're both such splendid fellows.
42:49i insist upon your friendship for each other.
42:52well i think that settles the matter don't you?
42:54yes there's no doubt about it.
42:55i'm delighted.
42:57well come on.
42:59after you.
43:00uh stephan another bottle of champagne.
43:02sir.
43:03the whites here.
43:04thanks.
43:06i um i hear your horses did well this year.
43:10two imperial prizes no less.
43:12well i've been very lucky.
43:14nonsense he trains them himself.
43:16that's why.
43:16i heard you had an english trainer.
43:18yes an excellent man by the name of cord.
43:20unfortunately he died last winter poor chap.
43:22so you don't trust anyone else.
43:25perhaps.
43:26am i correct?
43:27do you keep horses?
43:28ah no my uh my father did.
43:30so i know a little of the mystique.
43:33i'm a farmer.
43:34so i understand.
43:34what sort of farming?
43:36nothing very special.
43:37everything from oats to turnips.
43:39but if i do have a particular interest it's with cattle.
43:43i started some years ago with local stock but they did poorly.
43:45so i i imported some freesians.
43:47ah freesians.
43:49they're a good breed Mr. Pete.
43:50ah but i've been crossbreeding.
43:53last year i bought myself a red shorthorn bull and the stocks improved enormously.
43:56you're talking farmer shop.
43:58i thought you would.
44:00well here's to friendship, amity, fraternity,
44:06fellowship and brotherhood.
44:09friendship, amity, fellowship and fraternity and brotherhood.
44:17sound like a pack of foxhounds.
44:18have you all been to england?
44:20once.
44:21he's been to england, france, germany, the netherlands
44:24but he's never met my sister anna.
44:26i'd like you to levity.
44:28shall we go and see her?
44:29by all means.
44:30oh she'd be delighted.
44:32look i'd come with you but i'm very worried about yashvin.
44:35he gambles now that's understating the case.
44:37he's in there now throwing his money about like a drunken sailor.
44:39oh he's losing then.
44:40well he was when i last saw him and i'm the only one who can keep him in check.
44:44well um let's finish the bottle first.
44:48there may be another one.
44:51what do you say?
44:59I'll go and tell her you're here.
45:06yes yes.
45:07yes.
45:12I brought my old friend Lennie to meet you.
45:16it's beautiful.
45:18beautiful.
45:20you think so?
45:25how good is it to come?
45:26I can't say how pleased i am to meet you at last.
45:30I feel most honored.
45:32it seems as though i've known and liked you for a long time.
45:36because of your friendship with steva and of course for your wife's sake.
45:40is everything well with her?
45:42so far all is well thank you.
45:44i'm so glad.
45:46shall we go in here?
45:47oh yes indeed.
45:57this is my little english companion susan cord.
46:00how do you do?
46:01how do you do sir?
46:02would you go into the drawing room and order tea for us say in 10 minutes?
46:05well ma'am.
46:12did you say cord?
46:14yes yes the daughter of alexei's trainer.
46:17it was very sad the family was quite destitute when he died.
46:21there were two older brothers and the child so i took them under my wing.
46:25the older boys are at school now and they're doing well.
46:29please sit down.
46:30yes yes indeed you publish my brother's books.
46:38i have that privilege.
46:39anna may we smoke?
46:41oh this is alexei's study here we all smoke like fiends if we want to.
46:45oh do sit down steva i think you'll find cigars over there.
46:50thank you.
46:55konstantin dmitrievich was very taken with mikhailov's picture.
46:58who wouldn't be it's a good piece of work.
47:00i was greatly favored you know because he's quite given up portraits.
47:03artists are perverse creatures.
47:06we should pass a law compelling them to do what they do best.
47:10well if i painted a masterpiece like that do you know what i'd do?
47:13what would you do?
47:14well obviously i could never improve on it.
47:18so i'd bundle up my brushes and my colors and throw the lot into the muskova.
47:24in mikhailov's case it would have to be the arno.
47:27oh poor man he's an unhappy exile.
47:30not smoking levin.
47:31vronsky keeps an excellent cigar.
47:33ah no thank you.
47:35tell me when does Sergei's book come out?
47:39i asked him but he said only you could say.
47:41early spring we hope and speaking of books
47:45i was about to tell levin why i'm here this evening.
47:47no you mustn't i forbade you to mention it.
47:50nonsense anna it's very creditable.
47:53anna is writing a book.
47:55it's a story for children and vodkoyev is interested in publishing it.
47:59that's wonderful.
48:00surely you're not going to object.
48:02i intend to persuade her.
48:04i assure you.
48:08tea-threading man.
48:10shall we go into the drawing room?
48:11now going back to what you were saying about authors.
48:20oh yeah that was a joke.
48:22yes but still.
48:22yes but still there are authors you see and some of them very good authors.
48:25so and their work sells everywhere.
48:27so you're a writer.
48:29i find that enormously interesting.
48:32i write for the same reason that i read.
48:34i adopt orphans and i embroider handkerchiefs.
48:38i have nothing useful to do.
48:40surely writing is useful providing it's creative.
48:46shall i tell you about my writing?
48:48it reminds me of those little baskets that convicts make in prison.
48:52a woman i know was chairman of some society and she used to sell them to her friends.
48:58the prisoners you see they had nothing useful to do in their cells.
49:02so they made these objects.
49:04they're useless objects.
49:07they're miracles of patience.
49:16come in.
49:18just to wish you good night kitty dear.
49:22thank you mama.
49:42i know.
49:44you're going to ask me how i am and if anything's happening.
49:47i'm very well and it isn't.
49:50well you would send for me at once if anything.
49:52of course mama.
49:54yes.
50:00by the way is costia not home?
50:02no.
50:02oh tell me it's 10 o'clock.
50:05i know.
50:06well pa came home from the club an hour ago.
50:08did he see costia?
50:09well of course he was with steva.
50:11really i think it's rather shameful to leave his wife alone for so long when anything like...
50:16i'm not alone.
50:17the house is full of people.
50:21anyway i'm going to bed now.
50:24well good night mama.
50:31good night my darling child.
50:33well old fellow what did i tell you?
50:42well old fellow what did i tell you?
50:55now honestly wasn't i right?
50:57she's a remarkable woman.
51:00clever intelligent warm-hearted.
51:07i feel dreadfully sorry for her.
51:09so do i.
51:11please god it'll soon be settled.
51:17come on i'll drop you off on my way home.
51:19i'll drop you off on my way home.
51:40young man
51:41good young man loves his wife.
51:54look in his eye.
51:57so why alexei why?
52:11alexei can't you see?
52:15i must not be left alone.
52:30kitty?
52:32did you have a pleasant evening?
52:34not bad.
52:35not bad at all.
52:36what about you?
52:37oh delightful.
52:38dolly came to dinner.
52:39oh good.
52:40she and mela talked of nothing but babies for two hours.
52:46what about you?
52:47oh you know i was steve at the club.
52:50your papa was there in great form.
52:52he really is absolutely.
52:53yes i know.
52:55oh i met vronsky.
52:58we got on very well.
53:00oh i'm glad.
53:01of course i'll avoid him as much as i can.
53:05but there won't be the constraint.
53:07good.
53:07i suppose we drank a good deal.
53:12they do drink there you know.
53:16they talk about the peasants drinking but really i don't know who drinks more.
53:19the common people or our own class.
53:22the peasants drink more at holiday times.
53:23where did you go after the club?
53:28steve.
53:28steve had a plan.
53:30he insisted that we went to see his sister anna arkadyevna.
53:34oh.
53:34now you won't be angry i know.
53:36steve implored me to and dolly as you know would always hope.
53:38do you like her?
53:40she's charming.
53:43very charming.
53:46and very much to be pitied.
53:52she sent you her good wishes.
53:53oh did she?
53:55did she indeed?
53:58what's the matter?
53:58you've fallen in love with that hateful woman.
54:02yes you have.
54:03i can see it in your face.
54:04she's bewitched you.
54:06she bewitches everyone.
54:09where would it end?
54:10you go drinking and drinking at the club and gambit.
54:14and then you went to her.
54:18to anna of all people.
54:21i thought you knew about her.
54:23she's she's fatal.
54:29kitty what is it? what is it?
54:31are you?
54:36costia if you love me you do love me don't you?
54:40no i do of course i do.
54:41then i think you'd better send for lizavieta petrovna.
54:45lisa who?
54:45the midwife stupid.
54:49and perhaps the doctor.
54:52don't be frightened.
54:55please.
54:57you mustn't be frightened.
55:01i'm not afraid.
55:05i'm not a bit afraid.
55:06what about your mother?
55:10no no don't disturb her.
55:12fetch my maid.
55:14and send for lizavieta.
55:17oh god mercy on us.
55:18pardon us and help us.
55:19pardon us and help us.
55:20nicht mehr.
55:34oh god.
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