Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

XVIII

" Oh, come, come, Tanya! In those years we never heard of love; elsewise my late mother-in-law 4 would have chased me right off the earth." "But how, then, were you wedded, nurse?" "It looks as if God willed it so. My Vanya was younger than myself, my sweet, 8 and I was thirteen. For two weeks or so a woman matchmaker kept visiting my kinsfolk, and at last my father blessed me. Bitterly 12, I cried for fear 5 and, crying, they unbr aided my tress and, chanting, they led me to the church.