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So that he needed at least six thousand roubles for current

expenses, and he only had one thousand eight hundred. For a man

with one hundred thousand roubles of revenue, which was what

everyone fixed as Vronsky's income, such debts, one would

suppose, could hardly be embarrassing; but the fact was that he

was far from having one hundred thousand. His father's immense

property, which alone yielded a yearly income of two hundred

thousand, was left undivided between the brothers. At the time

when the elder brother, with a mass of debts, married Princess

Varya Tchirkova, the daughter of a Decembrist without any fortune

whatever, Alexey had given up to his elder brother almost the

whole income from his father's estate, reserving for himself only

twenty-five thousand a year from it. Alexey had said at the time

to his brother that that sum would be sufficient for him until he

married, which he probably never would do.