"_A propos de Varenka_," said Kitty, speaking in French, as they had been doing all the while, so that Agafea Mihalovna should not understand them, "you know, mamma, I somehow expect things to be settled today.

You know what I mean.

How splendid it would be!" "But what a famous matchmaker she is!" said Dolly.

" How carefully and cleverly she throws them together!..." "No; tell me, mamma, what do you think?" "Why, what is one to think? He" (_he_ meant Sergey Ivanovitch) "might at any time have been a match for anyone in Russia; now, of course, he's not quite a young man, still I know ever so many girls would be glad to marry him even now....