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'It's clear you have never seen any grisettes,' my father observed to her

'Thank God, I haven't!'

'Thank God, to be sureonly how can you form an opinion of them, then?'

To me Zinaïda had paid no attention whatever Soon after dinner the princess got up to go

'I shall rely on your kind offices, Maria Nikolaevna and Piotr Vassilitch,' she said in a doleful sing-song to my mother and father 'I've no help for it! There were days, but they are over Here I a to eat!'

My father made her a respectful bow and escorted her to the door of the hall I was standing there inat the floor, like a man under sentence of death Zinaïda's treatment of me had crushed me utterly What was my astonishment, when, as she passed me, she whispered quickly with her forht, do you hear, be sure' I si a white scarf over her head