go. The daughter was already fingering at the folds of her gown and looking interrogatively at her mother, when suddenly they heard in the next room several girls and boys running t

stant there appeared in the doorway a student with a crimson band on his collar, a young

g from side to side, held his ar

ed, laughing. "Our little

the countess, affecting severity. "You're alwa

said the visitor. "Quelle délicieuse en

legs in lace-edged long drawers and open slippers, was at that charming stage when the girl is no longer a child, while the child is not yet a young girl. Wriggling away from her father, she ran up to her mother, and taking n

eemed to her so funny. She sank on her mother's lap, and went off into such a loud

nce of anger. "This is my younger girl," she said to the visitor. Natasha, pulling her face away from her

his domestic scene, thought it

sing Natasha, "how did you come by y

hildish things with which the visitor had spoken to

wing-room, and were obviously trying to restrain within the bounds of decorum the excitement and mirth which was brimming over in their faces. Clearly in the back part of the house, from which they had dashed out so impetuousl

d his whole face expressed impulsiveness and enthusiasm. Nikolay flushed red as he came into the drawing-room. He was unmistakably trying to find something to say, and unable to find anything. Boris, on the contrary, was at home immediately and talked easily and playfully of the doll Mimi, saying that he had known her as a young girl before her nose was broken, and she had grown older during th

n't you? Do you want the carriage?" he s

walked slowly to the door and went after Natasha. The stout boy ran wrat