Towards the end of the race everyone was in a state of agitation, which was intensified by the fact that the Tsar was displeased.

Everyone was loudly expressing disapprobation, everyone was repeating a phrase some one 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.

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