Do you remember Liza ?" _"Charmante enfant!"_ "But she's not an _enfant_ now, but a woman, and a woman of character.
She's a generous, passionate creature, and what I like about her, she stands up to that confiding fool, her mother.

There was almost a row over that cousin." "Bah, and of course he's no relation of Lizaveta Nikolaevna's at all....

Has he designs on her ?" "You see, he's a young officer, not by any means talkative, modest in fact.

I always want to be just.

I fancy he is opposed to the intrigue himself, and isn't aiming at anything, and it was only the Von Lembke's tricks.