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

First he had left a lady before she had finished speaking to him, and now he continued to speak to another who wished to get away.

reticule

chimerical.

Here the conversation seemed interesting and he stood waiting for an

And having got rid of this young man who did not know how to behave, she resumed her duties as hostess and continued to listen and watch, ready to help at any point where the conversation might happen to flag. As the foreman

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

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.

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