A carriage, with a coachman asleep on the box, and an izvoshchik were standing at the entrance. As he entered the hall Karenin dragged forth his resolve as it were from a remote corner of his brain, and conned it over.
Una vettura con un cocchiere addormentato stava all’ingresso. Entrando nel vestibolo Aleksej Aleksandrovic trasse come da un angolo remoto del cervello la propria decisione e si consultò; in quell’angolo era scritto: “Se c’è inganno, allora calmo disprezzo, e via.