1 The Governor's wife added a word or two, and then carried off her daughter to speak to some of the other guests.
2 Indeed, his rudeness soon reached the pitch of his walking away altogether, in order that he might go and reconnoitre wither the Governor's wife and daughter had retreated.
3 However, Chichikov slipped past the mazurka dancers, and, almost treading on their heels, made his way towards the spot where Madame and her daughter were seated.
4 On perceiving an empty chair beside the mother and daughter, he hastened to occupy it, and though conversation at first hung fire, things gradually improved, and he acquired more confidence.
5 Why, that scheme of carrying off the Governor's daughter.
6 Finally, Chichikov sniffed into his superior's family and domestic life, and learnt that he possessed a grown-up daughter on whose face also there had taken place a nocturnal, diabolical grinding of peas.
7 "Ulinka, this is Paul Ivanovitch," said the General, turning to his daughter.
8 In fact, the house shook with his merriment, so much so that the butler and his daughter came running into the room in alarm.
9 Meanwhile Nikolai Petrovitch had already, in his parents' lifetime and to their no slight chagrin, had time to fall in love with the daughter of his landlord, a petty official, Prepolovensky.
10 Her husband had long been dead, leaving her an only daughter, Fenitchka.
11 One morning, Arina came into his study, and bowing low as usual, she asked him if he could do anything for her daughter, who had got a spark from the stove in her eye.
12 "If I were a father and had a daughter, I believe I should love my daughter more than my sons, really," I began indirectly, as though talking of something else, to distract her attention.
13 I knew a father who was a stern, austere man, but used to go down on his knees to his daughter, used to kiss her hands, her feet, he couldn't make enough of her, really.
14 The one whom the daughter loves always seems the worst to the father, you know.
15 The officers and the people are all out on the street and I set the fashion for them and the merchant's daughter and I flirted.