1 Some time later he received a packet addressed to him; in it was the ring he had given the princess.
2 Pavel Petrovitch had scarcely seen his brother since the latter had settled in the country; the marriage of Nikolai Petrovitch had coincided with the very first days of Pavel Petrovitch's acquaintance with the princess.
3 The princess got up from her chair without speaking and led the way out of the drawing-room.
4 After tea, Anna Sergyevna suggested they should go out for a walk; but it began to rain a little, and the whole party, with the exception of the princess, returned to the drawing-room.
5 The princess had gone upstairs to her own room; she could not bear guests as a rule, and 'especially this new riff-raff lot,' as she called them.
6 The princess, as was her habit, tried to express her amazement in her face, as though he were doing something improper, then glared angrily at him; but he paid no attention to her.
7 Arkady talked in an undertone to Katya, and diplomatically attended to the princess's wants.
8 Katya looked at him silently and seriously; the princess went so far as to cross herself under her shawl so that he could not help noticing it.
9 The princess appeared very sleepy, which gave her wrinkled old face an even more ill-natured expression.
10 She began to seem absorbed in thought, answered abstractedly, and suggested at last that they should go into the hall, where they found the princess and Katya.
11 She magnanimously kept the princess out of their way; the latter had been reduced to a state of tearful frenzy by the news of the proposed marriage.
12 On his way to the aunt he bowed to the little princess with a pleased smile, as to an intimate acquaintance.
13 "Come over here, Helene, dear," said Anna Pavlovna to the beautiful young princess who was sitting some way off, the center of another group.
14 The princess rested her bare round arm on a little table and considered a reply unnecessary.
15 The little princess had also left the tea table and followed Helene.