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In the church there was no one but the peasants, the servants and

their women-folk. But Darya Alexandrovna saw, or fancied she saw,

the sensation produced by her children and her. The children were

not only beautiful to look at in their smart little dresses, but

they were charming in the way they behaved. Aliosha, it is true,

did not stand quite correctly; he kept turning round, trying to

look at his little jacket from behind; but all the same he was

wonderfully sweet. Tanya behaved like a grown-up person, and

looked after the little ones. And the smallest, Lily, was

bewitching in her naive astonishment at everything, and it was

difficult not to smile when, after taking the sacrament, she said

in English, "Please, some more."

On the way home the children felt that something solemn had

happened, and were very sedate.