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Chapter Seven
XLVIII

Tatiana wishes to make out the talks, the general conversation; but there engages everybody in the drawing room 4 such incoherent, common rot; all about them is so pale, neutral; they even slander dully. In this sterile aridity of speeches, 8 interrogations, talebearing, and news, not once in four-and-twenty hours does thought flash forth, even by chance, even at random; the languid mind won't smile, 12 the heart even in jest won't quiver; and even some droll foolishness in you one will not meet with, hollow monde!