I ought myself to be firmer, to maintain my masculine independence of action; or else I shall get into such ways, and she'll get used to them too....

Of course she's not to blame," he told himself.

But it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame someone else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.

And it vaguely came into Levin's mind that she herself was not to blame (she could not be to blame for anything), but what was to blame was her education, too superficial and frivolous.

("That fool Tcharsky: she wanted, I know, to stop him, but didn't know how to.