Poor Lizaveta Prokofyevna was dying to get back to Russia and, according to Yevgeny Pavlovich, gave vent to bitter and prejudiced criticism of all that was foreign. “They can’t even be trusted to bake a decent loaf of bread here, they can’t. Come winter and they freeze like mice in a cellar,” she said. “At least I’ve had a good cry the good old Russian way over this here poor devil,” she added, bursting with emotion as she pointed towards the Prince, who did not recognize her at all. “We got carried away all right, time we came to our senses. All of it, all these foreign countries, the whole
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