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Gehed, then sighed, then patted her on the shoulder, and shook her finger at her, and then looked at Sanin; at last, she got up, embraced her mother and kissed her in the hollow of her neck, which h extremely and shriek a little Pantaleone too was presented to Sanin It appeared he had once been an opera singer, a baritone, but had long ago given up the theatre, and occupied in the Roselli family a position between that of a faed residence in Germany, he had learnt very little Ger even the terms of abuse 'Ferroflucto spitchebubbio' was his favourite epithet for almost every German He spoke Italian with a perfect accent--for was he not by birth froua toscana in bocca roed himself in the pleasant sensations of one who has only just escaped a danger or is returning to health after illness; it was evident, too, that the family spoiled him

He thanked Sanin bashfully, but devoted himself chiefly to the biscuits and sweete cups of excellent chocolate, and to eat a considerable number of biscuits; no sooner had he sed one than Gemma offered him another--and to refuse was impossible! He soon felt at home: the tireat deal--about Russia in general, the Russian climate, Russian society, the Russian peasant--and especially about the Cossacks; about the war of 1812, about Peter the Great, about the Kres and bells Both ladies had a very faint conception of our vast and renora Roselli, or as she was more often called, Frau Lenore, positively dumfoundered Sanin with the question, whether there was still existing at Petersburg the celebrated house of ice, built last century, about which she had lately read a very curious article in one of her husband's books, 'Bettezze delle arti' And in reply to Sanin's exclamation, 'Do you really suppose that there is never any summer in Russia?' Frau Lenore replied that till then she had always pictured Russia like this--eternal snow, every one going about in furs, and all reatest hospitality, and all the peasants very subhter some more exact information When the conversation touched on Russiansome Russian air and showed him a diminutive piano with black keys instead of white and white instead of black