Not only were they fond of him, they respected him too and were proud of him: proud that this man, with his enormous wealth and excellent education and abilities, to whom the road to success of all kinds gratifying to ambition or vanity lay open, had disregarded all this, and of all life's interests had nearest to his heart those of his regiment and his comrades. Vronsky was aware of this attitude of his comrades toward him, and besides liking the life felt bound to justify their view of him.
No sólo le querían, sino que le respetaban y se enorgullecían de él, se enorgullecían de que aquel hombre inmensamente rico, instruido a inteligente, con el camino abierto hacia éxitos, honores y pompas de todas clases, despreciara todo aquello, y que de todos los intereses de su vida no diera a ninguno más lugar en su corazón que a los referentes a sus camaradas y a su regimiento.