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Excerpt from The Princess Ogherof: A Russian Love Story
The little dancers, most of them, accompanied by their governesses, approached each other and instituted a mutual but timid examination of their toilets; the boys, even more timid, retreated to the windows. Some of the mothers were laughing and talking among themselves. Suddenly the Master of Ceremonies entered, and like the sun, which at this moment disappeared behind the Bourse, he broke the ice; he placed each little hand in another, and the couples arranged themselves in a long line, nearly lost in the gathering darkness at the other end of the hall. The band was heard in the next room. The door was thrown open and the Polonaise unrolled its majes tic limbs, with measured slowness. Surrounded by her family, seated or rather throned in a large chair at the end of the crimson salon, blazing with light, Prascovia Petrovna, With her white hair rolled up in puffs, her robe of white damask, and wrapped in the folds of a Point de Venice mantella, had rather the air of an Empress of the East, than of a simple mortal. Smiling, and with a most kindly expression, she watched the children coming toward her, led by her grandson Serge in his uniform of a court page. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
