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On the morning, however, all was happily arranged, and towards

ten o'clock-the time at which they had asked the priest to wait

for them for the mass-the children in their new dresses, with

beaming faces, stood on the step before the carriage waiting for

their mother.

To the carriage, instead of the restive Raven, they had

harnessed, thanks to the representations of Marya Philimonovna,

the bailiff's horse, Brownie, and Darya Alexandrovna, delayed by

anxiety over her own attire, came out and got in, dressed in a

white muslin gown.