Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

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Closer to her the ladies moved$ old women smiled to her; the men bowed lower, sought 4 to catch her gaze; maidens before her passed more quietly across the room; and higher than anyone lifted his nose and shoulders 8 the general who had come in with her. None could have called her a beauty; but from head to foot none could have found in her 12 what is by autocratic fashion in the high London circle called "vulgar." (I'm unable298