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They were drinking coffee in the blue salon, and e tables laid out, and Taodmother and another lady, when

suddenly the door opened and, with an air of complete insouciance and

assurance, Prince Milaslávski ca the Princess' hand,

while he nodded to everyone else "I was passing and so caain!" the whole co upon hilad welcos, which he took with

the ut froid

"That old cat of a Marianne Mariuski sets about as usual one of her

stories I aie at Milasláv, and this ti I only brought back by

the merest chance one s bears They e, Sasha, and

the rest!"

"Gritzko, will you never learn wisdom," said one lady, the Princess

Shébanoff, plaintively, while the others all laughed "Were they

pretty, and ere they like?" they asked

"The bears?--little angels, especially Fatima,--and with the manners of

Princesses," and he bowed to an old lady as surveying hih her pince-nez, while she held her cards awry "Which re in ours, Tantine, you have not presented er"