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"How nice you've co

her waist; "such a bad habit to be late" Bending her left hand,

she laid it on his shoulder, and her little feet in their pink

slippers began swiftly, lightly, and rhyth over the

slippery floor in time to the music

"It's a rest to waltz with you," he said to her, as they fell

into the first slow steps of the waltz "It's exquisite--such

lightness, precision" He said to her the sa he said to

almost all his partners whom he kneell

She smiled at his praise, and continued to look about the rooirl at her first ball,

for whom all faces in the ballrooirl who had gone the stale round

of balls till every face in the ballrooe between these two; she

was excited, and at the same time she had sufficient

self-possession to be able to observe In the left corner of the

ballrooether

There--incredibly naked--was the beauty Lidi, Korsunsky's wife;

there was the lady of the house; there shone the bald head of

Krivin, always to be found where the best people were In that

direction gazed the youngto approach There,

too, she descried Stiva, and there she saw the exquisite figure

and head of Anna in a black velvet gown And _he_ was there