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She glanced round for an instant, looked inquiringly at him, and

with a slight frown turned away again.

"Ah, I don't care!" she seemed to say to him, and she did not

once glance at him again.

The race was an unlucky one, and of the seventeen officers who

rode in it more than half were thrown and hurt. Towards the end

of the race everyone was in a state of agitation, which was

intensified by the fact that the Tsar was displeased.

Chapter 29

Everyone was loudly expressing disapprobation, everyone was

repeating a phrase someone had uttered-"The lions and gladiators

will be the next thing," and everyone was feeling horrified; so

that when Vronsky fell to the ground, and Anna moaned aloud,

there was nothing very out of the way in it. But afterwards a

change came over Anna's face which really was beyond decorum. She

utterly lost her head. She began fluttering like a caged bird, at

one moment would have got up and moved away, at the next turned

to Betsy.

"Let us go, let us go!" she said.