By Tolstoy Lev Nikolayevich,Louise and Aylmer Maude
It used to be in July, 1805, and the speaker used to be the well known Anna Pavlovna Scherer, maid of honor and favourite of the Em-press Marya Fedorovna. With those phrases she greeted Prince Vasili Kuragin, a guy of excessive rank and value, who was once the 1st to reach at her reception. Anna Pavlovna had had a cough for a few days. She was once, as she acknowledged, struggling with los angeles grippe; grippe being then a brand new notice in St. Petersburg, used in basic terms through the elite.
All her invites with no exception, written in French, and brought through a scarlet-liveried footman that morning, ran as follows:
"If you don't have anything larger to do, count number [or Prince], and if the possibility of spending a night with a terrible invalid isn't really too bad, I can be very charmed to work out you this night among 7 and 10- Annette Scherer."
"Heavens! what a virulent attack!" answered the prince, now not the least bit disconcerted via this reception. He had simply entered, donning an embroidered courtroom uniform, knee breeches, and footwear, and had stars on his breast and a serene expression on his flat face. He spoke in that sophisticated French within which our grandfathers not just spoke yet inspiration, and .............
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