That would be a pity, for you seem to me rather better lately." "What a confession for you to make of any one!" said she.
"Oh, I don't mean to say that you will ever get well," he added grimly.
"You seem to have pulled yourself in too many directions for that.

You have tried to be too alive; and, now you are obliged to join the genus cabbage." "I am certainly less ill than I was when I first came," she said; "and I feel in a better frame of mind altogether.

I am learning a good deal in sad Petershof." "That is more than I have done," he answered.
"Well, perhaps you teach instead," she said.

"You have taught me several things.

Now, go on telling me about the country people.