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Everything in Darya Alexandrovna's house and children struck him

now as by no means so charming as a little while before. "And

what does she talk French with the children for?" he thought;

"how unnatural and false it is! And the children feel it so:

Learning French and unlearning sincerity," he thought to himself,

unaware that Darya Alexandrovna had thought all that over twenty

times already, and yet, even at the cost of some loss of

sincerity, believed it necessary to teach her children French in

that way.

"But why are you going? Do stay a little."

Levin stayed to tea; but his good-humor had vanished, and he felt

ill at ease.