Anna Karenina — Chapter 207 in French
By Leo Tolstoy
fit Stépan Arkadiévitch ; mais aussitôt il se rappela. Stepan Arkadyevitch was going out, when Korneï came in, and announced, "Sergyeï Alekseyevitch."
dit-il. « Serge Alexiévitch ». "Who is Sergyeï Alekseyevitch?" dit Stépan Arkadiévitch, mais aussitôt il se rappela. Oblonsky began to ask, but in an instant he remembered.
Je pensais que c’était un directeur de département ! he exclaimed; "and here was I, thinking it was some direktor of a department," he said to himself. « Anna m’a demandé aussi de le voir », se souvint-il. "Anna begged me to see him."
En même temps, il voyait l’expression timide, craintive, avec laquelle Anna, quand il prenait congé d’elle, lui avait dit : « Enfin, tu le verras. And he recalled the sad, timid expression with which, as he left her, Anna had said to him, "You will see him, and can find out what he is doing, and where he is, and who is taking care of him. Apprends en détail où il est, qui est près de lui,… et, Stiva… si c’était possible ! And, Stiva .... if possible! Serait-ce possible ? Would it be possible?"