DANCE SCARVES : Elisaveta Mihalovna (Lisa), daughters of dance scarves Lenotchka, Shurotchka, an orphan girl, ward of Marfa. Nastasya Karpovna Ogarkoff, dependent of Marfa. Vladimir Nikolaitch Panshin, of the Ministry of the Interior. Christopher Fedoritch Lemm, a German musician. Piotr Andreitch Lavretsky, grandfather of Fedor. Anna Pavlovna, grandmother of Fedor. Ivan Petrovitch, father of Fedor. Glafira Petrovna, aunt of Fedor. Malanya Sergyevna, mother of Fedor. Mihalevitch, a student friend of Fedor. Pavel Petrovitch Korobyin, father of Varvara. Kalliopa Karlovna, mother of Varvara. Varvara Pavlovna, wife of Fedor. Anton, old servants of Fedor. Apraxya, Agafya Vlasyevna, nurse of Lisa. Chapter I A bright spring day was fading into evening. High dance scarves in the clear heavens small rosy clouds seemed hardly to move across the sky but to be
DANCE SCARVES : sinking into its depths of blue. In a handsome house in one of the outlying streets of the government town dance scarves O---- (it was in the year 1842) two women were sitting at an open window; one was about fifty, the other an old lady of seventy. The name of the former was Marya Dmitrievna Kalitin. Her husband, a shrewd determined man of obstinate bilious temperament, had been dead for ten years. He had been a provincial public prosecutor, noted in his own day as a successful man of business. He had received a fair education and had been to dance scarves university; but having been born in narrow circumstances he realized early in life the necessity of pushing his own
DANCE SCARVES : way in the world dance scarves making money. It had been a love-match on Marya Dmitrievna's side. He was not dance scarves was clever and could be very agreeable when he chose. Marya Dmitrievna Pesto--that was her maiden name--had lost her parents in childhood. She spent some years in a boarding-school in Moscow, and after leaving school, lived on the family estate of Pokrovskoe, about forty miles from O----, with her aunt and her elder brother. This brother soon after obtained a post in Petersburg, and made them a scanty allowance. He treated his aunt and sister very shabbily till his sudden death cut short his career. Marya Dmitrievna inherited Pokrovskoe, but she did not live there long. Two
DANCE SCARVES : years after her marriage with Kalitin, who succeeded in winning her heart in a few days, Pokrovskoe was exchanged for another estate, which yielded a much larger income, but was utterly unattractive and had no house. At the same time Kalitin took a house in the town of O----, in which he and his wife took up their permanent abode. There was a large garden round the house, which on one side looked out upon the open dance scarves away from the town. "And so," decided Kalitin, who had a great distaste for the quiet of country life, "there would be no need for them to be dragging dance scarves off into the country." In her heart Marya Dmitrievna more than once
DANCE SCARVES : regretted her pretty dance scarves with its babbling brook, its wide meadows, and green copses; but she dance scarves opposed her husband in anything and had the greatest veneration for his wisdom and knowledge of the world. When after fifteen years of married life he died leaving her with a son and two daughters, Marya Dmitrievna had grown so accustomed to her house and to town life that she had no inclination to leave O----. In her youth Marya Dmitrievna had always been spoken of as a pretty blonde; and at fifty her features had not lost all charm, though they were somewhat coarser and less delicate in outline. She was more
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