with fresh vigorous life. In his blue eyes shone the light of
goodness and benevolence through the moisture called up by the recent
spectacle of the execution: the lips, surmounted by a slight soft
mustache, bore a good-humoured smile--one of those smiles that it is
impossible to feign, and which can only find their source in a heart
never troubled by impure passions. Health and frost had united to
tinge the cheeks with a light rosy glow; he took off his cap, and his
fair curls streamed forth over his broad shoulders. He addressed
Mamón in a few words of such Russian as he knew, and in his voice
there was something so charming, that even the evil spirit which
wandered through the boyárin's heart, sank down to its abyss. This,
then, was the horrible stranger, who had harmed Obrazétz and his
household! This, then, was he--after all! If this was the devil, the
fiend must again have put on his original heavenly form. All the
attendants, as they looked upon him, became firmly convinced that he
had bewitched their eyes.

"'Haste, Nástia![4] look how handsome he is!' cried Andrióusha to the
voevóda's daughter, in whose room he was, looking through the sliding
window, which he had drawn back. 'After this, believe stupid reports!
My father says that he is my brother: oh, how I shall love him! Look,
my dear!'

[4]_Nástia_--the diminutive of Anastasia; Nástenka, the same.
Russian caressing names generally end in sia, sha, óusha, or
óushka--as Vásia, (for Iván;) Andrióusha, (Andrei;)
Varpholoméoushka, ( Bartholomew.)"--T.B.S.

"And the son of Aristotle, affirming and swearing that he was not
deceiving his godmother, drew her, trembling and pale, to the window.