reticule

As Sterne* says: “We don’t love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them.” Mon

Pomerania?’*

He used to say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and superstition, and only two virtues—activity

Anna Mikhailovna was already embracing her and weeping. The countess wept too. They wept because they were friends, and because they were kind-hearted, and because they—friends from childhood—had to think about such a base thing as money, and because their youth was over … But those tears were pleasant to them both.

opportunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing.

‘Now I am all right,’ she said, and asking the vicomte to begin, she took up her work. Prince Ippolit, having brought the work-bag, joined the circle and moving a chair close to hers seated himself beside her.

Here the conversation seemed interesting and he stood waiting for an

of a spinning-mill when he has set the hands to work, goes round and notices, here a spindle that has stopped or there one that creaks or makes more noise than it should, and hastens to check the machine or set it in proper motion, so Anna Pavlovna moved about her drawing-room, approaching now a silent, now a too noisy group, and by a word or sligh