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"Brandy, do you think? Eh?" queried Petritsky, blinking and

rubbing his eyes. "And you'll drink something? All right then,

we'll have a drink together! Vronsky, have a drink?" said

Petritsky, getting up and wrapping the tiger-skin rug round him.

He went to the door of the partition wall, raised his hands, and

hummed in French, "There was a king in Thule." "Vronsky, will you

have a drink?"

"Go along," said Vronsky, putting on the coat his valet handed to

him.

"Where are you off to?" asked Yashvin. "Oh, here are your three

horses," he added, seeing the carriage drive up.

"To the stables, and I've got to see Bryansky, too, about the

horses," said Vronsky.

Vronsky had as a fact promised to call at Bryansky's, some eight

miles from Peterhof, and to bring him some money owing for some

horses; and he hoped to have time to get that in too. But his

comrades were at once aware that he was not only going there.