Anna Karenina - Part 5

But without this occupation, the life of Vronsky and of Anna, who

wondered at his loss of interest in it, struck them as

intolerably tedious in an Italian town. The palazzo suddenly

seemed so obtrusively old and dirty, the spots on the curtains,

the cracks in the floors, the broken plaster on the cornices

became so disagreeably obvious, and the everlasting sameness of

Golenishtchev, and the Italian professor and the German traveler

became so wearisome, that they had to make some change. They

resolved to go to Russia, to the country. In Petersburg Vronsky

intended to arrange a partition of the land with his brother,

while Anna meant to see her son. The summer they intended to

spend on Vronsky's great family estate.