Please sit down.
When I look at you, I can hardly believe my eyes.

How are you ?" "As you see, I'm flourishing.

And you, too, cousin--no ill-luck to you!--have grown no thinner in eight years." "To think how long it is since we met!" observed Marya Dmitrievna dreamily.

"Where have you come from now?
Where did you leave...

that is, I meant to say," she put in hastily, "I meant to say, are you going to be with us for long ?" "I have come now from Berlin," replied Lavretsky, "and to-morrow I shall go into the country--probably for a long time." "You will live at Lavriky, I suppose ?" "No, not at Lavriky; I have a little place twenty miles from here: I am going there." "Is that the little estate that came to you from Glafira Petrovna ?" "Yes." "Really, Fedor Ivanitch! You have such a magnificent house at Lavriky." Lavretsky knitted his brows a little.
"Yes...