The cripple kissed it with reverence.

Her grateful eyes shone with positive ecstasy.

At that moment the governor's wife came up, and a whole crowd of ladies and high officials flocked after her.

The governor's wife was forced to stand still for a moment in the crush; many people stopped.
"You are trembling.

Are you cold ?" Varvara Petrovna observed suddenly, and flinging off her pelisse which a footman caught in mid-air, she took from her own shoulders a very expensive black shawl, and with her own hands wrapped it round the bare neck of the still kneeling woman.
"But get up, get up from your knees I beg you!" The woman got up.
"Where do you live?
Is it possible no one knows where she lives ?" Varvara Petrovna glanced round impatiently again.