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We must, however, say a feords about Sanin hi A handsoreeable, rather unforolden hair, a clear white and red skin, and, above all, that peculiar, na&iulance, somewhat foolish expression, by which in foroing, noble fa landowners, born and reared in our open, half-wild country parts,--a hesitating gait, a voice with a lisp, a smile like a child's the minute you looked at himlastly, freshness, health, softness, softness, softness,--there you have the whole of Sanin And secondly, he was not stupid and had picked up a fair an tour; the disturbing e people of that day were tempest-tossed were very little known to him

Of late years, in response to the assiduous search for 'new types,' young un to appear in our literature, deter oysters, when they reach Petersburg Sanin was not like them Since we have had recourse already to sirafted apple-tree in one of our fertile orchards--or better still, a well-groo 'three-year-old' in so horse that they have hardly begun to break in to the traces Those who came across Sanin in later years, when life had knocked hiood deal, and the sleekness and plu vanished, saw in him a totally different man

Next day Sanin was still in bed when Emil, in his best clothes, with a cane in his hand andthat Herr Kl&uue, that the weather pro ready by now, but that an to hurry Sanin, telling him that there was not a minute to lose And Herr Klüber did, in fact, find Sanin still at his toilet He knocked at the door, came in, boith a bend froht be desired, and sat down, his hat balanced elegantly on his knees The handsoot himself up and perfumed himself to excess: his every action was accompanied by a powerful whiff of the e--one of the kind called landau--drawn by two tall and powerful but not well-shaped horses A quarter of an hour later Sanin, Kl&uue, drew up triumphantly at the steps of the confectioner's shop Madame Roselli resolutely refused to join the party; Gemma wanted to stay with her mother; but she simply turned her out