Vanyusha standing in the doorway smiled as he looked at her.

He thought it very funny that she had only a smock on, close-fitting behind and tucked up in front, and still funnier that she wore a necklace of silver coins.

He thought this quite un-Russian and that they would all laugh in the serfs' quarters at home if they saw a girl like that.

'La fille comme c'est tres bien, for a change,' he thought.

'I'll tell that to my master.' 'What are you standing in the light for, you devil!' the girl suddenly shouted.