War And Peace: Book 1 - CHAPTER IX

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OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE, not reckoning the countess's elder daughter (who was four years

older than her sister and behaved quite like a grown-up person) and the young lady

visitor, there were left in the drawing-room Nikolay and Sonya, the niece. Sonya was a

slender, miniature brunette, with soft eyes shaded by long lashes, thick black hair

twisted in two coils round her head, and a skin of a somewhat sallow tint, particularly

marked on her bare, thin, but shapely, muscular arms and neck. The smoothness of her

movements, the softness and flexibility of her little limbs, and something of slyness and

reserve in her manner, suggested a lovely half-grown kitten, which would one day be a

charming cat. Apparently she thought it only proper to show an interest in the general

conversation and to smile. But against her own will, her eyes turned under their thick,

long lashes to her cousin, who was going away into the army, with such girlish, passionate

adoration, that her smile could not for one moment impose upon any one, and it was clear

that the kitten had only perched there to skip off more energetically than ever and to

play with her cousin as soon as they could, like Boris and Natasha, get out of the

drawing-room.

“Yes, ma ch

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