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The maid took a handbag and the lap dog, the butler and a porter

the other baggage. Vronsky gave his mother his arm; but just as

they were getting out of the carriage several men ran suddenly by

with panic-stricken faces. The station-master, too, ran by in his

extraordinary colored cap. Obviously something unusual had

happened. The crowd who had left the train were running back

again.

"What?... What?... Where?... Flung himself!... Crushed!..." was

heard among the crowd. Stepan Arkadyevitch, with his sister on

his arm, turned back. They too looked scared, and stopped at the

carriage door to avoid the crowd.

The ladies got in, while Vronsky and Stepan Arkadyevitch followed

the crowd to find out details of the disaster.

A guard, either drunk or too much muffled up in the bitter frost,

had not heard the train moving back, and had been crushed.

Before Vronsky and Oblonsky came back the ladies heard the facts

from the butler.