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Chapter Five
IV

Tatiana (being Russian at heart, herself not knowing why) loved, in all its cold beauty, 4 a Russian winter: rime in the sun upon a frosty day, and sleighs, and, at late dawn, the radiance of the rosy snows, 8 and gloam of Twelfthtide eves. Those evenings in the ancient fashion were celebrated in their house: the servant girls from the whole stead 12 told their young ladies' fortunes and every year made prophecies to them of military husbands and the march.

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Tatiana credited the lore of plain-folk ancientry, dreams, cartomancy, 4 prognostications by the moon. Portents disturbed her: mysteriously all objects fpretold her something, 8 presentiments constrained her breast. The mannered tomcat sitting on the stove, purring, would wash his muzzlet with his paw: to her 'twas an indubitable sign 12 that guests were coming. Seeing all at once the young two-horned moon's visage in the sky on her left,