Recognizing these persons as Russians, Kitty had already in her imagination begun constructing a delightful and touching romance about them.

But the princess, having ascertained from the visitors' list that this was Nikolay Levin and Marya Nikolaevna, explained to Kitty what a bad man this Levin was, and all her fancies about these two people vanished.

Not so much from what her mother told her, as from the fact that it was Konstantin's brother, this pair suddenly seemed to Kitty intensely unpleasant.

This Levin, with his continual twitching of his head, aroused in her now an irrepressible feeling of disgust.