Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

XVII

"Can it be possible?" thinks Eugene. "Can it be she?… But really… No… What! From outback steppe villages…" 4 and a tenacious quizzing glass he keeps directing every minute at her whose aspect vaguely has recalled to him forgotten features. 8 "Tell me, Prince, you don't know who is it there in the framboise beret talking with the Spanish ambassador?" The prince looks at Onegin: 12 "Aha! Indeed, long have you not been in the monde. Wait, I'll present you." "But who is she?" "My wife."