1 The countess pressed her friend's hand.
2 "Yes, you're quite right," continued the countess.
3 "Surely he will leave something to Boris," said the countess.
4 The countess' eyes filled with tears and she pondered in silence.
5 Ah, my dear," said the countess, "my life is not all roses either.
6 He paid me attentions in those days, said the countess, with a smile.
7 "Yes, Dmitri, clean ones, please," said the countess, sighing deeply.
8 "Ma chere, there is a time for everything," said the countess with feigned severity.
9 Anna Mikhaylovna, with her tear-worn but pleasant face, drew her chair nearer to that of the countess.
10 The countess reflected a moment and took a pinch from a gold snuffbox with her husband's portrait on it.
11 Anna Mikhaylovna instantly guessed her intention and stooped to be ready to embrace the countess at the appropriate moment.
12 "You, my little countess, are a notorious spendthrift," said the count, and having kissed his wife's hand he went back to his study.
13 The countess looked at her callers, smiling affably, but not concealing the fact that she would not be distressed if they now rose and took their leave.
14 The countess herself and her handsome eldest daughter were in the drawing-room with the visitors who came to congratulate, and who constantly succeeded one another in relays.
15 "Annette, for heaven's sake don't refuse me," the countess began, with a blush that looked very strange on her thin, dignified, elderly face, and she took the money from under the handkerchief.
16 When Anna Mikhaylovna returned from Count Bezukhov's the money, all in clean notes, was lying ready under a handkerchief on the countess' little table, and Anna Mikhaylovna noticed that something was agitating her.
17 The countess was upset by her friend's sorrow and humiliating poverty, and was therefore out of sorts, a state of mind which with her always found expression in calling her maid "my dear" and speaking to her with exaggerated politeness.
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