" To see each other, to profess to love each other, to prove it to quarrel, to hate, then to separate, that one may seek a new love - this is the history of a moment, and of every day in the comedy of the world ." - Be Varennes.
"The Slav women have a natural grace and strength of physique, an earnestness of face and fine white teeth that should
make up for the general absence of what in Western Europe is called beauty of feature. But the Princess - or barina, as they
called her on her husband's estate - possessed the native characteristic of form and figure with a peculiar beauty of her own.
She had above all things that is very rarely seen in the Russian woman, a blooming complexion. It was as if all that is striking in the handsome, cultured, and aristocratic Russian lady had found a happy commingling with the typical grace of the woman of the people. Her gait was regal, her mien queenly, and her voice was music. Not an ordinary subject of the Czar, you will say; nor was she; but do not tell me there are no beautiful Russians, and as for hospitality, why the barina would often have her ...
Genre: Literary Fiction
"The Slav women have a natural grace and strength of physique, an earnestness of face and fine white teeth that should
make up for the general absence of what in Western Europe is called beauty of feature. But the Princess - or barina, as they
called her on her husband's estate - possessed the native characteristic of form and figure with a peculiar beauty of her own.
She had above all things that is very rarely seen in the Russian woman, a blooming complexion. It was as if all that is striking in the handsome, cultured, and aristocratic Russian lady had found a happy commingling with the typical grace of the woman of the people. Her gait was regal, her mien queenly, and her voice was music. Not an ordinary subject of the Czar, you will say; nor was she; but do not tell me there are no beautiful Russians, and as for hospitality, why the barina would often have her ...
Genre: Literary Fiction
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