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These "Academy boys" were ambitious; each annual exhibition was crowded, to listen to the speeches "of Coriolanus, Iago, Brutus, and Cassius" by "raw lads from the village and adjoining farms," in all the bravery of local militia uniform blue coats "faced with red, matross swords, and hats of '76."
It consisted of five creatures almost equally near to her heart; a big-cropped, learned bullfinch, which she had taken a fancy to because he had lost his accomplishments of whistling and drawing water; a very timid and peaceable little dog, Roska; an ill-tempered cat, Matross; a dark-faced, agile little girl nine years old, with big eyes and a sharp nose, call Shurotchka; and an elderly woman of fifty-five, in a white cap and a cinnamon-coloured abbreviated jacket, over a dark skirt, by name, Nastasya Karpovna Ogarkov.
"Hurrah for the Hymns!" cheered Brereton, as a number of the gunners and matross men dropped, and the remainder, deserting the cannon, fell back on the infantry. "Come on!" he roared, as the Virginia light horse, taking advantage of the open order, raced the riflemen to the guns.
I ran for haste under an old ash-tree, and immediately the cannon-bullet came hissing quite over us. 'No danger now, saith the gunner, 'but begone, for there are five more charging, which was true; for two hours after those cannons were discharged, and unluckily killed our cannoneer and matross.
And Marfa Timofyevna could not kiss enough those poor, pale, powerless hands, and silent tears flowed from her eyes and from Lisa's; while the cat Matross purred in the wide arm-chair among the knitting wool, and the long flame of the little lamp faintly stirred and flickered before the holy picture.
A slight cloud of melancholy flitted over all the young faces. "But Matross is alive," said Lenotchka suddenly. "And Gedeonovsky," added her brother. At Gedeonovsky's name a merry laugh broke out at once.
We are just finishing our game. Would you like some preserve? Shurotchka, bring him a pot of strawberry. You don't want any? Well, sit there; only you mustn't smoke; I can't bear your tobacco, and it makes Matross sneeze." Lavretsky made haste to assure her that he had not the least desire to smoke. "Have you been down-stairs?" the old lady continued. "Whom did you see there?
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