Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

XXVI

Pensiveness, her companion, even from cradle days, adorned for her with dreams 4 the course of rural leisure. Her delicate fingers knew needles not; over the tambour bendin with a silk pattern she 8 did not enliven linen. Sign of the urge to domineer: the child with her obedient doll prepares in play i 2 for etiquette, law of the monde, and gravely to her doll repeats the lessons of her mamma5