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'Who's that?' asked Sanin with the bad habit of asking questions characteristic of all Russians

'Oh, a French attendance on o hory by this tiot his eye-peeps open by now'

'Better half! Eye-peeps!' Sanin repeated to hie creature!'

Maria Nikolaevna was not mistaken When she went back into the hotel with Sanin, her 'better half or 'du' was already seated, the invariable fez on his head, before a table laid for breakfast

'I've been waiting for you!' he cried,coffee without you'

'Never mind, never ry? That's good for you; without that you'd turn into a ht a visitor Make haste and ring! Let us have coffee--the best coffee--in Saxony cups on a snohite cloth!'

She threw off her hat and gloves, and clapped her hands

Polozov looked at her from under his brows

'What makes you so skittish to-day, Maria Nikolaevna?' he said in an undertone

'That's no business of yours, Ippolit Sidoritch! Ring! Dimitri Pavlovitch, sit down and have soive orders! There's no pleasure on earth like it!'

'When you're obeyed,' gruain

'Just so, when one's obeyed! That's why I'? Ah, here's the coffee'

On the iht in, there lay also a playbill Maria Nikolaevna snatched it up at once

'A dranation, 'a German drama No matter; it's better than a Gernoire--or nobetter the Free,' she turned to the waiter 'Do you hear: the Free has been already taken by his excellency, the director of the town (seine Excellenz der Herr Stadt-Director),' the waiter ventured to demur

'Give his excellency ten thalers, and let the box be mine! Do you hear!'

The waiter bent his head huo with oYes? Yes? How obliging you are! Du?

'You settle it,' Polozov observed into the cup he had lifted to his lips