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In the little Ger-place to which the Shtcherbatskys

had betaken theathered together, the usual process, as it were, of the

crystallization of society went on, assigning to each member of

that society a definite and unalterable place Just as the

particle of water in frost, definitely and unalterably, takes the

special form of the crystal of snow, so each new person that

arrived at the springs was at once placed in his special place

_Fürst_ Shtcherbatsky, _sammt Gemahlin und Tochter_, by the

apartments they took, and from their name and from the friends

they made, were immediately crystallized into a definite place

-place that year a real Ger process went

on orously than ever Princess Shtcherbatskaya wished,

above everything, to present her daughter to this German

princess, and the day after their arrival she duly perforraceful curtsey in the _very siant frock that had been ordered her from

Paris The German princess said, "I hope the roses will soon

come back to this pretty little face," and for the Shtcherbatskys

certain definite lines of existence were at once laid down fro The Shtcherbatskys lish Lady Somebody, and