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Princess Sophia Vasilievna, Missy'sdinner (She had it always alone, that

no one should see her perfor this unpoetical function) By

her couch stood a s a pachitos Princess Sophia Vasilievna was a long, thin

wo teeth, and still

pretended to be young

Her inti talked about Nekhludoff

had known that for so

by her couch, his oily, glistening beard parted in the middle, he

not only reusted By the table, on a low, soft, easy chair, next to

Sophia Vasilievna, sat Kolosoff, stirring his coffee A glass of

liqueur stood on the table Missy came in with Nekhludoff, but

did not reets tired of you and drives you away, then co to Kolosoff and Nekhludoff, speaking as if

nothing had occurred; then she went away, s noiselessly on the thick carpet

"How do you do, dear friend? Sit down and talk," said Princess

Sophia Vasilievna, with her affected but very naturally-acted

s teeth--a splendid imitation of what

her own had once been "I hear that you have come from the Law

Courts veryto a

person with a heart," she added in French

"Yes, that is so," said Nekhludoff "One often feels one's own

de--one feels one has no right to judge"

"Comme, c'est vrai," she cried, as if struck by the truth of this