'I'm not the first and shall not be the last'; and without taking into account the historical instances of wives' unfaithfulness, beginning with Menelaus and La Belle Hélène [a comic opera, by Offenbach, just then in vogue in Moscow and Petersburg.] whose memory had just recently been fresh in everybody's mind, quite a number of cases of infidelity, the infidelity of modern wives, occurred to Karenin.
«No soy el primero, ni el último...» Y aun prescindiendo de los ejemplos históricos, entre los cuales le venia primero a la memoria el de la bella Elena y Menelao, toda una larga teoría de infidelidades contemporáneas de mujeres de alta sociedad surgieron en la mente de Alexey Alejandrovich.