Again she struggled all over like a fish, and her shoulders setting the saddle heaving, she rose on her front legs but unable to lift her back, she quivered all over and again fell on her side.

With a face hideous with passion, his lower jaw trembling, and his cheeks white, Vronsky kicked her with his heel in the stomach and again fell to tugging at the rein.

She did not stir, but thrusting her nose into the ground, she simply gazed at her master with her speaking eyes.

"A--a--a!" groaned Vronsky, clutching at his head.