The last class of debts--to shops, to hotels, to his tailor--were such as need not be considered.

So that he needed at least six thousand roubles for current expenses, and he only had one thousand eight hundred.

For a man with one hundred thousand roubles of revenue, which was what everyone fixed as Vronsky's income, such debts, one would suppose, could hardly be embarrassing; but the fact was that he was far from having one hundred thousand.

His father's immense property, which alone yielded a yearly income of two hundred thousand, was left undivided between the brothers.