Things I want to do before I die.



But I'll just tell Mamma how you are behaving with Boris.
" "Natalya Ilynichna behaves very well to me," remarked Boris.
" I have nothing to complain of.
" "Don't, Boris! You are such a diplomat that it is really tiresome," said Natasha in a mortified voice that trembled slightly.
(She used the word "diplomat," which was just then much in vogue among the children, in the special sense they attached to it.

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