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Updated: June 17, 2025
Someone suffers because he is darkened by his pride he desires much, but has but little strength. Another because of his foolishness. But then there are a thousand and one other reasons, which you cannot understand." "Come in and have some tea," Anfisa called to them.
The poor fellow was beside himself to get her a bouquet of camellias. Countess Sotski and Sophia Bespalova, as everyone knew, were coming with white camellia bouquets. Anfisa wished for red ones, for effect. Well, her husband Platon was driven desperate to find some.
Anfisa Alexeyevna's birthday came off just then, too, and there were two balls arranged. At that time Dumas-fils' beautiful work, La Dame aux Camelias a novel which I consider imperishable had just come into fashion. In the provinces all the ladies were in raptures over it, those who had read it, at least. Camellias were all the fashion.
They played at "hide and seek" and "blind man's buff;" the children were pleased and amused at seeing Anfisa, her eyes covered with a handkerchief, her arms outstretched, walking about the room carefully, and yet striking against chairs and tables, or looking for them in each and every commodious corner, saying: "Eh, little rascals. Eh, rogues. Where have they hidden themselves? Eh?"
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