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.