The roussalka revolves and revolves round her partner; he stretches out his arms to seize her, but she slips underneath him and escapes. It is very graceful, and the music has movement and originality. The figure ends when the partner, believing that he has seized the roussalka, tries to give her a kiss, and she makes a bound, strikes him on the shoulder, and he falls dead at her feet.... But the Count improvised a variation, strained the winsome creature in his arms, and kissed her again and again. Mademoiselle Iwinska uttered a little cry, blushed deeply, and threw herself, pouting, into a couch, complaining that he had hugged her like the bear that he was. I saw that the comparison did not please the Count, for it brought to his mind the family misfortune, and his brow darkened. I thanked Mademoiselle Iwinska most warmly, and praised her dance, which seemed to me to have an antique flavour, and recalled the sacred dances of the Greeks. I was interrupted by a servant announcing General and Princess Véliaminof. Mademoiselle Iwinska leaped to the sofa for her shoes, hastily thrust in her little feet, and ran to meet the Princess, making successively two profound bows. I noticed that at each bow she adroitly drew on part of her slipper. The General brought with him two aides-de-camp, and, like us, had come to ask for hospitality. In any other country I imagine the mistress of the house would have been a little embarrassed to receive all at once six hungry and unexpected guests; but Lithuanian hospitality is so lavish that the dinner was not more than half an hour late, I think; there were too many pies, however, both hot and cold. [1] "The two together make a pair"; word for word, Michon (Michael) with Lokis, both are the same. _Michaelium cum Lokide, ambo [duo] ipsissimi._ [2] The Russian for one possessed is "a howler"; _klikoucha_, the root of which is _klik_, clamour, howling. [3] _Siatelstvo_, "Your _shining light_"; the title used in addressing a count. [4] The knights of the Teutonic order. [5] Felt cloak. [6] Julienne. [7] See _Messire Thaddée_, by Miçkiewicz, and _Captive Poland_, by M. Charles Edmond. [8] A Circassian gun-case. [9] A bad translation of the word "professor." The _waïdelotes_ were the Lithuanian bards. [10] A peasant's skirt, without a bodice. IV