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The prince coood humor to his own family and his

friends, and even to the Ger

On cos, the prince, who had

asked the colonel, and Marya Yevgenyevna, and Varenka all to coave orders for a table and chairs to

be taken into the garden under the chestnut tree, and lunch to be

laid there The landlord and the servants, too, grew brisker

under the influence of his good spirits They knew his

open-handedness; and half an hour later the invalid doctor fro, who lived on the top floor, looked enviously out of the

at the merry party of healthy Russians asse circles of shadow cast by the

leaves, at a table, covered with a white cloth, and set with

coffeepot, bread-and-butter, cheese, and cold gah cap with lilac ribbons, distributing cups and

bread-and-butter At the other end sat the prince, eating

heartily, and talking loudly and merrily The prince had spread

out near him his purchases, carved boxes, and knick-knacks,

paper-knives of all sorts, of which he bought a heap at every