And glancing casually at the gentleman, who still stood there gazing intently at him, he would have gone on.

"This gentleman is a Russian, and was inquiring after you," said the head waiter.

With mingled feelings of annoyance at never being able to get away from acquaintances anywhere, and longing to find some sort of diversion from the monotony of his life, Vronsky looked once more at the gentleman, who had retreated and stood still again, and at the same moment a light came into the eyes of both.

"Golenishtchev!" "Vronsky!" It really was Golenishtchev, a comrade of Vronsky's in the Corps of Pages.

In the corps Golenishtchev had belonged to the liberal party; he left the corps without entering the army, and had never taken office under the government.