Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

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Chapter One
IV

Then, when the season of tumultuous youth for Eugene came, season of hopes and tender melancholy, 4 Monsieur was ousted from the place. Now my Onegin is at large: hair cut after the latest fashion, dressed like a London Dandy-2 8 and finally he saw the World. In French impeccably he could express himself and write, danced the mazurka lightly, and 12, bowed unconstrainedlywhat would you more? The World decided that he was clever and most charming.

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All of us had a bit of schooling in something and somehow: hence in our midst it is not hard, 4 thank God, to flaunt one's education. Onegin was, in the opinion of many (judges resolute and stern), a learned fellow but a pedant. 8 He had the happy talent, without constraint, in conversation slightly to touch on everything, keep silent, with an expert's learned air, 12 during a grave discussion, and provoke the smiles of ladies with the fire of unexpected epigrams.

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