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Varenka see persons present

she did not know, and she went directly to the piano She could

not accoht very

well Kitty, who played well, accompanied her

"You have an extraordinary talent," the princess said to her

after Varenka had sung the first song extrehter expressed their thanks and

admiration

"Look," said the colonel, looking out of the hat an

audience has collected to listen to you" There actually was

quite a considerable crowd under the s

"I aives you pleasure," Varenka answered simply

Kitty looked with pride at her friend She was enchanted by her

talent, and her voice, and her face, but most of all by her

of her

singing and was quite un: "Ah?"

"If it had been I," thought Kitty, "how proud I should have been!

How delighted I should have been to see that crowd under the

s! But she's utterly un and to please ives her the power to look down on everything, to be cal? How I should like to know it and to