The complete works of Count Tolstoy . elias, in whichthe visiting actress showed in a new fashion how con-sumptive women die. The theatre was filled. Mariettes box was at oncepointed out to Nekblyiidov, with due respect to theperson who was asking for it. In the corridor stood a liveried lackey. He bowedas to an acquaintance and opened the door. All the rows of the boxes opposite, with the figuressitting there and standing behind them, and the near-bybacks and the gray, half-gray, bald, and pomaded, fixed-upheads of those who were sitting in the orchestra circle,—all the spectators centred the
The complete works of Count Tolstoy . elias, in whichthe visiting actress showed in a new fashion how con-sumptive women die. The theatre was filled. Mariettes box was at oncepointed out to Nekblyiidov, with due respect to theperson who was asking for it. In the corridor stood a liveried lackey. He bowedas to an acquaintance and opened the door. All the rows of the boxes opposite, with the figuressitting there and standing behind them, and the near-bybacks and the gray, half-gray, bald, and pomaded, fixed-upheads of those who were sitting in the orchestra circle,—all the spectators centred their attention on the lean,bony actress who, dressed up in silk and laces, was con-torting herself and declaiming a monologue in an un-natural voice. Somebody was hissing as the door wasbeing opened, and two streams of warm and cold airpassed over Nekhlyiidovs face. In the box were Mariette and a strange lady in a redwrap and a large, massive coiffure, and two men: a general,Mariettes husband, a handsome, tall man, with a severe, 440. xoa arlJ rii ?1)?11?? XXVTIT. Nekhly6dov vf tl. ?? evening, but u went, icond act of the new fashi ^^ ? oon- os box was «ib onc«due respect to the ved -1? nitural vc oor was?jai and cold air -iie box were Mariette and a strange lady in a ^.-i ^ ?? —^^ ? ....;+..^ r^^^ two men: ager.^ ? I tall man, with a st^ [ iJ Mariette in the Box Photogravure from Painting by L. O. Pasternak
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