Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

XXVII

but even in those years Tatiana did not take in her hands a doll; about town news, about the fashions, 4 did not converse with it; and childish pranks to her were foreign; grisly tales in winter, in the dark of nights, 8 charmed more her heart. Whenever nurse assembled for Olga, on the spacious lawn, all her small girl companions, 12, she did not play at barleybreaks, dull were to her both ringing laughter and noise of their giddy diversions. I/j.2