| Like his trooper, he was aware that the comtesse smiled at him, and that she had beautiful eyes. |
| It took her five years to become a comtesse, but at length she gained her point. |
| Joy filled my heart that I was at last to be allowed to do something for the comtesse. |
| Early in January, 1820, the colonel drove in a carriage, the very counterpart of the one in which he had driven the Comte and Comtesse de Vandieres from Moscow to Studzianka. |
| Unlike her brother, Madame la Comtesse was tall and majestically built. |
| Comtesse de Bouchaud is a fairylike thing, with white petals edged lavender, delicately curled. |
