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While awaiting the time for carrying out her plans on a large

scale, however, Kitty, even then at the springs, where there were

so many people ill and unhappy, readily found a chance for

practicing her new principles in imitation of Varenka.

At first the princess noticed nothing but that Kitty was much

under the influence of her engouement, as she called it, for

Madame Stahl, and still more for Varenka. She saw that Kitty did

not merely imitate Varenka in her conduct, but unconsciously

imitated her in her manner of walking, of talking, of blinking

her eyes. But later on the princess noticed that, apart from this

adoration, some kind of serious spiritual change was taking place

in her daughter.