Anna Karenina Part 1, Chapter 13
By Leo Tolstoy
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Part 1, Chapter 13
- Kitty is compared to a young man going into combat, as she prepares herself to go out to a party where she might receive a proposal of marriage.
- Tonight is also the night when her two suitors, Levin and Vronsky, will meet one another for the first time.
- Levin sits down with her and stammers out his proposal.
- Kitty refuses him, saying, "It is impossible. Forgive me."
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