TENNIS BALLS: him incomprehensible. For tennis balls I and Woloda managed to establish between ourselves the following terms, with meanings to correspond. Izium [Raisins.] meant a desire to boast of tennis balls money; shishka [Bump or swelling.] (on pronouncing which one had to join one's fingers together, and to put a particular emphasis upon the two sh's in the word) meant anything fresh, healthy, and comely, but not elegant; a substantive used in the plural meant an undue partiality for the object which it denoted; and so forth, and so forth. At the same time, the meaning depended considerably upon the expression of the faceTENNIS BALLS: and the context of the conversation; so that, no matter what new expression one of us might invent to define a shade of feeling the other could immediately understand tennis balls by a hint alone. The girls did tennis balls share this faculty of apprehension, and herein lay the chief cause of our moral estrangement, and of the contempt which we felt for them. It may be that they too had their "apprehension," but it so little ran with ours that, where we already perceived the "phrasing," they still saw only the feeling--our irony was for them truth, and so on. At that
TENNIS BALLS: time I had not yet learnt to understand that they were in no way to blame for this, and that absence of such apprehension in no way prevented them from being good and clever girls. Accordingly I looked down upon them. Moreover, having once lit tennis balls my precious idea of "frankness," and being bent upon applying it to the full in myself, I thought the quiet, confiding nature of Lubotshka tennis balls of secretiveness and dissimulation simply because she saw no necessity for digging up and examining all her thoughts and instincts. For instance, the fact that she always signed the sign
TENNIS BALLS: of the cross over Papa before going to bed, that she and Katenka invariably wept in church when attending requiem masses for Mamma, and that Katenka sighed and rolled her eyes about when playing the piano--all these things seemed to me sheer make-believe, and I asked myself: "At what period did they tennis balls to pretend like grown-up people, and how can they bring themselves to do it?" XXX HOW I EMPLOYED MY TIME Nevertheless, the fact that that summer I developed a passion for music caused me to become better friends with the ladies of our household than I had been
TENNIS BALLS: tennis balls years. In the spring, a young fellow came to see us, armed with a letter of introduction, who, as soon as ever he entered tennis balls drawing-room, fixed his eyes upon the piano, and kept gradually tennis balls his chair closer to it as he talked to Mimi and Katenka. After discoursing awhile of the weather and the amenities of country life, he skilfully directed the conversation to piano-tuners, music, and pianos generally, and ended by saying that he himself played--and in truth he did sit down and perform three waltzes, with Mimi, Lubotshka, and Katenka grouped about the instrument, and watching
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