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His eyes shone particularly brightly, and he felt in that

confident, calm, and happy frame of mind which always came after

he had thoroughly faced his position. Everything was straight and

clear, just as after former days of reckoning. He shaved, took a

cold bath, dressed and went out.

Chapter 21

"We've come to fetch you. Your lessive lasted a good time today,"

said Petritsky. "Well, is it over?"

"It is over," answered Vronsky, smiling with his eyes only, and

twirling the tips of his mustaches as circumspectly as though

after the perfect order into which his affairs had been brought

any over-bold or rapid movement might disturb it.

"You're always just as if you'd come out of a bath after it,"

said Petritsky. "I've come from Gritsky's" (that was what they

called the colonel); "they're expecting you."

Vronsky, without answering, looked at his comrade, thinking of

something else.