Dieser Stillstand war zweifellos eingetreten, und alle sahen es deutlich; aber Alexei Alexandrowitsch selbst war noch nicht zu der Erkenntnis gelangt, daß seine Laufbahn endgültig abgeschlossen sei. ###>That cessation was an accomplished fact, clearly visible to every one, though Karenin himself had not yet realized that his career was at an end.