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His joy in life was so great that it agitated hiht, especially when it washe wandered about in the garden till dawn,

alone with his dreams and fancies

And so, peacefully and happily, he lived through the firstno particular notice of their

half-ward, half-servant, the black-eyed, quick-footed Katusha

Then, at the age of nineteen, Nekhludoff, brought up under his

ured in his

dreams at all it was only as a wife All the other wo to his ideas he could not s

But on Ascension Day that su of two young daughters, a schoolboy, and a

young artist of peasant origin as staying with them, came to

spend the day After tea they all went to play in the rass had already been orelki, and Katusha joined the partners several tiht

Katusha, and she became his partner Up to this time he had liked

Katusha's looks, but the possibility of any nearer relations with

her had never entered hisartist,

whose turn it was to catch, and who could run very fast with his

short, s