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'Mine is there too. Do you see her? in red. That's a new beshmet. Why don't you start the khorovod? he shouted, leaning out of the window. 'Wait a bit, and then when it grows dark let us go too. Then we will invite them to Ustenka's. We must arrange a ball for them! 'And I will come to Ustenka's, said Olenin in a decided tone. 'Will Maryanka be there? 'Yes, she'll be there.
A striking feature of a Grebensk woman's beauty is the combination of the purest Circassian type of face with the broad and powerful build of Northern women. Cossack women wear the Circassian dress a Tartar smock, beshmet, and soft slippers but they tie their kerchiefs round their heads in the Russian fashion.
'May Christ save you! said the old man, and he took up the extremely wide trousers that were lying on the floor, and his beshmet, put them on, fastened a strap round his waist, poured some water from an earthenware pot over his hands, wiped them on the old trousers, smoothed his beard with a bit of comb, and stopped in front of Lukashka. 'Ready, he said.
Besides which he had had something to drink at the betrothal. He came to Olenin quite drunk: his face red, his beard tangled, but wearing a new beshmet trimmed with gold braid; and he brought with him a balalayka which he had obtained beyond the river. He had long promised Olenin this treat, and felt in the mood for it, so that he was sorry to find Olenin writing.
She went out into the street again, and after waiting awhile he too went out and without knowing where he was going he followed her. He passed by the corner where she was sitting in her shining blue satin beshmet, and with an aching heart he heard behind him the girls laughing. Beletski's hut looked out onto the square.
Lukashka just then was getting out from under his coat, from the pocket of his black beshmet, a bundle of sweetmeats and seeds. 'There, I give them to all of you, he said, handing the bundle to Ustenka and smiling at Maryanka. A confused expression again appeared on the girl's face. It was as though a mist gathered over her beautiful eyes.
"You're smothering the boy!" said the little one's mother, taking him away; and she unfastened her beshmet to give him the breast. "You'd better have a chat with the young fellow." "I'll only go and put up my horse and then Nazarka and I will come back; we'll make merry all night," said Lukashka, touching his horse with his whip and riding away from the girls.
'Take off your slippers, you devil's wench! shouts her mother, 'you've worn them into holes! Maryanka is not at all offended at being called a 'devil's wench', but accepting it as a term of endearment cheerfully goes on with her task. Her face is covered with a kerchief tied round her head. She is wearing a pink smock and a green beshmet.
On the dark side of the doorway stood Beletski and Olenin, in their Circassian coats and sheepskin caps, and talked together in a style of speech unlike that of the Cossacks, in low but distinct tones, conscious that they were attracting attention. Next to one another in the khorovod circle moved plump little Ustenka in her red beshmet and the stately Maryanka in her new smock and beshmet.
'Oh, just chattering what came into his head, answered Ustenka. 'What does mine not say! Just as if he was possessed! Maryanka dropped her hand on her folded beshmet, threw her arm over Ustenka's shoulder, and shut her eyes. 'He wanted to come and work in the vineyard to-day: father invited him, she said, and after a short silence she fell asleep.
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