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 | | '_Qu'a-vez-vous?_' Mlle, Boncourt would ask her, and then she would begin to scold her, saying that it was improper for a young girl to be absorbed and to appear absent-minded. |
 | | Mlle, Boncourt had not given her lessons in mythology and geography for a long while; but Natalya had every morning to read historical books, travels, or other instructive works with her. |
 | | Mlle, Boncourt looked specially severely and sourly through her spectacles when Natalya was reading historical books; according to the old French lady's ideas all history was filled with _impermissible_ things, though for some reason or other of all the great men of antiquity she herself knew only one--Cambyses, and of modern times--Louis XIV. |
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