1 Marya Dmitrievna paused at the door.
2 Marya Dmitrievna shook her fat finger.
3 Marya Dmitrievna always spoke in Russian.
4 "Ice pudding, but you won't get any," said Marya Dmitrievna.
5 First came Marya Dmitrievna and the count, both with merry countenances.
6 "Herself," came the answer in a rough voice, and Marya Dmitrievna entered the room.
7 Marya Dmitrievna and the countess burst out laughing, and all the guests joined in.
8 Natasha saw there was nothing to be afraid of and so she braved even Marya Dmitrievna.
9 The count, with playful ceremony somewhat in ballet style, offered his bent arm to Marya Dmitrievna.
10 Prince Vasili wished to obtain this post for his son, but others were trying through the Dowager Empress Marya Fedorovna to secure it for the baron.
11 You may die in your bed or God may spare you in a battle, replied Marya Dmitrievna's deep voice, which easily carried the whole length of the table.
12 At one end of the table sat the countess with Marya Dmitrievna on her right and Anna Mikhaylovna on her left, the other lady visitors were farther down.
13 Everyone laughed, not at Marya Dmitrievna's answer but at the incredible boldness and smartness of this little girl who had dared to treat Marya Dmitrievna in this fashion.
14 The count went in first with Marya Dmitrievna, the countess followed on the arm of a colonel of hussars, a man of importance to them because Nicholas was to go with him to the regiment; then came Anna Mikhaylovna with Shinshin.
15 In the midst of the third ecossaise there was a clatter of chairs being pushed back in the sitting room where the count and Marya Dmitrievna had been playing cards with the majority of the more distinguished and older visitors.
16 Marya Dmitrievna was known to the Imperial family as well as to all Moscow and Petersburg, and both cities wondered at her, laughed privately at her rudenesses, and told good stories about her, while none the less all without exception respected and feared her.
17 And indeed everybody in the room looked with a smile of pleasure at the jovial old gentleman, who standing beside his tall and stout partner, Marya Dmitrievna, curved his arms, beat time, straightened his shoulders, turned out his toes, tapped gently with his foot, and, by a smile that broadened his round face more and more, prepared the onlookers for what was to follow.
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