On the Eve
On the Eve
Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. With an introduction by Edward Garnett.
Book Excerpt
lying on the grass. One, who looked about
twenty-three, tall and swarthy, with a sharp and rather crooked nose,
a high forehead, and a restrained smile on his wide mouth, was lying
on his back and gazing meditatively into the distance, his small grey
eyes half closed. The other was lying on his chest, his curly, fair
head propped on his two hands; he, too, was looking away into the
distance. He was three years older than his companion, but seemed
much younger. His moustache was only just growing, and his chin was
covered with a light curly down. There was something childishly
pretty, something attractively delicate, in the small features of his
fresh round face, in his soft brown eyes, lovely pouting lips, and
little white hands. Everything about him was suggestive of the happy
light-heartedness of perfect health and youth--the carelessness,
conceit, self-indulgence, and charm of youth. He used his eyes, and
smiled and leaned his head as boys do who know that people look at
them admiringly. He wore a loose w
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