Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

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The reason she loved Richardson was not that she had read him, and not that Grandison 4 to Lovelace she preferred;14 but anciently, Princess Alina, her Moscow maiden cousin, would often talk to her about them. 8 Her husband at that time still was her fiance, but against her will. She sighed after another whose heart and mind 12 were much more to her liking; that Grandison was a great dandy, a gamester, and an Ensign in the Guards.