Anna Karenina by Part 5 Chapter 5 Page 2

responded Madame Trubetskaya. “I wonder why they had the wedding in the evening? It’s like shop-people...”

“So much prettier. I was married in the evening too...” answered Madame Korsunskaya, and she sighed, remembering how charming she had been that day, and how absurdly in love her husband was, and how different it all was now.

“They say if anyone’s best man more than ten times, he’ll never be married. I wanted to be for the tenth time, but the post was taken,” said Count Siniavin to the pretty Princess Tcharskaya, who had designs on him.

Princess Tcharskaya only answered with a smile. She looked at Kitty, thinking how and when she would stand with Count Siniavin in Kitty’s place, and how she