These were the old-fashioned and ridiculous people. But there was another sort of people: the real people to which all his set belonged, who had above all to be well-bred, generous, bold, gay, and to abandon themselves unblushingly to all their passions and laugh at everything else.
La segunda clase, a la que los tipos del mundo de Vronsky se envanecen de pertenecer, sólo da valor a la elegancia, la generosidad, la audacia y el buen humor, entregándose sin recato a sus pasiones y burlándose de todo lo demás.