He was a gentleman--that was true, and Vronsky could not deny it.

He was equable and not cringing with his superiors, was free and ingratiating in his behavior with his equals, and was contemptuously indulgent with his inferiors.

Vronsky was himself the same, and regarded it as a great merit to be so.

But for this prince he was an inferior, and his contemptuous and indulgent attitude to him revolted him.