Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

XXIII

The husband comes. He interrupts this painful tete-a-tete; he with Onegin recollects 4 the pranks, the jests of former years. They laugh. Guests enter. Now with the large-grained salt of high-life the conversation starts to be enlivened. [malice 8 Before the lady of the house, light nonsense flashed without stupid affectation, and meantime interrupted it sensible talk, without trite topics, 1 2 eternal truths, or pedantry, nor did its free vivacity shock anybody's ears.