However, I won't argue. Well, if
not a flower girl, then something else. I, for instance, saw not
long ago in a store show window a miss sitting, and some sort of a
little machine with foot-power before her."
"V-VA! Again a little machine!" said the prince, smiling and
looking at Lichonin.
"Stop it, Nijeradze," answered Lichonin, quietly but sternly. "You
ought to be ashamed."
"Blockhead!" Soloviev threw at him, and continued.
"So, then, the machine moves back and forth, while upon it, on a
square frame, is stretched a thin canvas, and really, I don't know
how it's contrived, I didn't grasp it; only the miss guides some
metallic thingamajig over the screen, and there comes out a fine
drawing in vari-coloured silks. Just imagine, a lake, all grown
over with pond-lilies with their white corollas and yellow
stamens, and great green leaves all around. And on the water two
white swans are floating toward each other, and in the background
is a dark park with an alley; and all this shows finely,
distinctly, as on a picture from life. And I became so interested
that I went in on purpose to find out how much it costs.
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