Sayfa 603 / 2288

Soon after the arrival of the Shtcherbatskys there appeared in

the morning crowd at the springs two persons who attracted

universal and unfavorable attention. These were a tall man with a

stooping figure, and huge hands, in an old coat too short for

him, with black, simple, and yet terrible eyes, and a pockmarked,

kind-looking woman, very badly and tastelessly dressed.

Recognizing these persons as Russians, Kitty had already in her

imagination begun constructing a delightful and touching romance

about them. But the princess, having ascertained from the

visitors' list that this was Nikolay Levin and Marya Nikolaevna,

explained to Kitty what a bad man this Levin was, and all her

fancies about these two people vanished. Not so much from what

her mother told her, as from the fact that it was Konstantin's

brother, this pair suddenly seemed to Kitty intensely unpleasant.

This Levin, with his continual twitching of his head, aroused in

her now an irrepressible feeling of disgust.