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Updated: May 2, 2025
"Dost thou never intend to marry?" demanded Doña Pomposa one day, as she stood over the kitchen stove stirring red peppers into a saucepan full of lard. Eulogia was sitting on the table swinging her small feet. "Why do you wish me to marry? I am well enough as I am. Was Elena Castañares so happy with the man who was mad for her that I should hasten to be a neglected wife? Poor my Elena!
And, secondly, Elena caught me the other day kissing Zoya's arms! 'Zoya's? 'Yes, Zoya's. What would you have? She has such fine shoulders. 'Shoulders? 'Well there, shoulders and arms, isn't it all the same? Elena caught me in this unconstrained proceeding after dinner, and before dinner I had been abusing Zoya in her hearing.
I'm sure I try to remember what you teach me, though the things are so difficult. I'm not so very lazy, Elena!" Elena stooped her dark brown head over the little golden one. "You're a darling, Daria! I know you do your best, when you don't forget all about it!" Volodia Ivanovitch had devoted his two best rooms to the children.
Of one of these he asked, "Whose is yonder funeral procession returning from San Pietro?" The young man made answer, "Alas for poor Elena, Messer Pietro's daughter! She should have been married this day. But death took her, and to-night they buried her in the marble monument outside the church."
On the first day she knew of his illness she herself had almost fallen ill; directly she got home, she shut herself up in her room; but she was summoned to dinner, and appeared in the dining-room with such a face that Anna Vassilyevna was alarmed, and was anxious to put her to bed. Elena succeeded, however, in controlling herself.
And what do we find? I am not now speaking of frivolities characteristic of your sex, and age, but who could have anticipated that you could so far forget yourself 'Papa, said Elena, 'I know what you are going to say
On this night a brilliant assemblage stood about in the ballroom floor ready for a quadrille. Elena Ashley and her betrothed were near the wide entrance doors. "There is Sheriff Paul of Calaveras County," she told him. "He does not dance. I wonder what brings him here?" The doors opened and Rosa Phillips entered, magnificently jewelled and dressed in a rich silk of pearl grey.
Sunday there came a German vegetarian when there were no vegetables and nothing but meat.... We are having a great deal of trouble with the servants, as Tomasi, the Fiji man, says his wife, Elena, is too good to associate with the other women, and Lafaele's little girl is terribly afraid of Araki, the black boy, although he speaks of her most tenderly as 'that little girlie. When the last litter of pigs was born, each family on the place was given a pig.
The singers ended their song and scattered in all directions to play. The golden-haired instructress went up to the sisters and asked: "Have you come from town? Are you pleased with what you have seen here?" "Yes, it's splendid here," said Elisaveta. "Our place adjoins this. We are the Rameyevs. I am Elisaveta. And this is my sister Elena."
'What an absorbed... and what an indifferent face! he muttered. 'Elena Nikolaevna, he continued, raising his voice, 'allow me to tell you a little anecdote. I had a friend, and this friend also had a friend, who at first conducted himself as befits a gentleman but afterwards took to drink. My friend went and turned his back on him.
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