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Chapter Three
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The Lord forbid my meeting at a ball or at its breakup, on the porch, a seminarian in a yellow shawl 4 or an Academician in a bonnet! As vermeil lips without a smile, without grammatical mistakes I don't like Russian speech. 8 Perchance (it would be my undoing!) a generation of new belles, heeding the magazines' entreating voice, to Grammar will accustom us 5 12 verses will be brought into use. Yet I… what do I care? I shall be true to ancientry.