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"Only fancy, we all but ran over two soldiers," she began telling

them at once, using her eyes, smiling and twitching away her

tail, which she flung back at one stroke all on one side. "I

drove here with Vaska.... Ah, to be sure, you don't know each

other." And mentioning his surname she introduced the young man,

and reddening a little, broke into a ringing laugh at her

mistake-that is, at her having called him Vaska to a stranger.

Vaska bowed once more to Anna, but he said nothing to her. He

addressed Sappho: "You've lost your bet. We got here first. Pay

up," said he, smiling.

Sappho laughed still more festively.

"Not just now," said she.

"Oh, all right, I'll have it later."