Ellagance Wellness Centre, 8099 Weston Rd.

[Jonestown77]

LE? What is that?

 

[krayjee]

LE? What is that?

Lovely Easter bunny.

 

[stinkray88]

LE? What is that?

Lousy Ending?

 

[krayjee]

Lousy Ending?

Stinky, you are getting better and better. Thanks for the bumps. Today is gonna be the best day since we opened 7 weeks ago.

 

[Pay2Play]

KJ its become so clear to me today, clearly as clear as can be. Just clear.
You’re like a bag of Pampers. Self absorbed and full of shit

Shouldn’t the saying be “you’re like a full diaper....”

 

[Stutter69]

Shouldn’t the saying be “you’re like a full diaper....”

No KJ is the whole bag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[barefeet]

We would like to see some reviews on this forum,sometimes is looking confusing with all the arguments between you guys.I am trying to figure out why is the battle here,should be enough room for everyone in my opinion.There are so many hobbyist to give enough for each shop.

 

[Whitesnake1987]

The only young people remaining in the drawing room, not counting the young lady visitor and the countess’ eldest daughter (who was four years older than her sister and behaved already like a grown-up person), were Nicholas and Sónya, the niece. Sónya was a slender little brunette with a tender look in her eyes which were veiled by long lashes, thick black plaits coiling twice round her head, and a tawny tint in her complexion and especially in the color of her slender but graceful and muscular arms and neck. By the grace of her movements, by the softness and flexibility of her small limbs, and by a certain coyness and reserve of manner, she reminded one of a pretty, half-grown kitten which promises to become a beautiful little cat. She evidently considered it proper to show an interest in the general conversation by smiling, but in spite of herself her eyes under their thick long lashes watched her cousin who was going to join the army, with such passionate girlish adoration that her smile could not for a single instant impose upon anyone, and it was clear that the kitten had settled down only to spring up with more energy and again play with her cousin as soon as they too could, like Natásha and BorÃs, escape from the drawing room.

“Ah yes, my dear,” said the count, addressing the visitor and pointing to Nicholas, “his friend BorÃs has become an officer, and so for friendship’s sake he is leaving the university and me, his old father, and entering the military service, my dear. And there was a place and everything waiting for him in the Archives Department! Isn’t that friendship?” remarked the count in an inquiring tone.

“But they say that war has been declared,” replied the visitor.

“They’ve been saying so a long while,” said the count, “and they’ll say so again and again, and that will be the end of it. My dear, there’s friendship for you,” he repeated. “He’s joining the hussars.”

The visitor, not knowing what to say, shook her head.

“It’s not at all from friendship,” declared Nicholas, flaring up and turning away as if from a shameful aspersion. “It is not from friendship at all; I simply feel that the army is my vocation.”

He glanced at his cousin and the young lady visitor; and they were both regarding him with a smile of approbation.

“Schubert, the colonel of the Pávlograd Hussars, is dining with us today. He has been here on leave and is taking Nicholas back with him. It can’t be helped!” said the count, shrugging his shoulders and speaking playfully of a matter that evidently distressed him.

“I have already told you, Papa,” said his son, “that if you don’t wish to let me go, I’ll stay. But I know I am no use anywhere except in the army; I am not a diplomat or a government clerk.—I don’t know how to hide what I feel.” As he spoke he kept glancing with the flirtatiousness of a handsome youth at Sónya and the young lady visitor.

The little kitten, feasting her eyes on him, seemed ready at any moment to start her gambols again and display her kittenish nature.

“All right, all right!” said the old count. “He always flares up! This Buonaparte has turned all their heads; they all think of how he rose from an ensign and became Emperor. Well, well, God grant it,” he added, not noticing his visitor’s sarcastic smile.

The elders began talking about Bonaparte. Julie Karágina turned to young Rostóv.

“What a pity you weren’t at the Arkhárovs’ on Thursday. It was so dull without you,” said she, giving him a tender smile.

The young man, flattered, sat down nearer to her with a coquettish smile, and engaged the smiling Julie in a confidential conversation without at all noticing that his involuntary smile had stabbed the heart of Sónya, who blushed and smiled unnaturally. In the midst of his talk he glanced round at her. She gave him a passionately angry glance, and hardly able to restrain her tears and maintain the artificial smile on her lips, she got up and left the room. All Nicholas’ animation vanished. He waited for the first pause in the conversation, and then with a distressed face left the room to find Sónya.

“How plainly all these young people wear their hearts on their sleeves!” said Anna Mikháylovna, pointing to Nicholas as he went out. “Cousinage—dangereux voisinage,” * she added.
* Cousinhood is a dangerous neighborhood.


“Yes,” said the countess when the brightness these young people had brought into the room had vanished; and as if answering a question no one had put but which was always in her mind, “and how much suffering, how much anxiety one has had to go through that we might rejoice in them now! And yet really the anxiety is greater now than the joy. One is always, always anxious! Especially just at this age, so dangerous both for girls and boys.”

“It all depends on the bringing up,” remarked the visitor.

“Yes, you’re quite right,” continued the countess. “Till now I have always, thank God, been my children’s friend and had their full confidence,” said she, repeating the mistake of so many parents who imagine that their children have no secrets from them. “I know I shall always be my daughters’ first confidante, and that if Nicholas, with his impulsive nature, does get into mischief (a boy can’t help it), he will all the same never be like those Petersburg young men.”

“Yes, they are splendid, splendid youngsters,” chimed in the count, who always solved questions that seemed to him perplexing by deciding that everything was splendid. “Just fancy: wants to be an hussar. What’s one to do, my dear?”

“What a charming creature your younger girl is,” said the visitor; “a little volcano!”

“Yes, a regular volcano,” said the count. “Takes after me! And what a voice she has; though she’s my daughter, I tell the truth when I say she’ll be a singer, a second Salomoni! We have engaged an Italian to give her lessons.”

“Isn’t she too young? I have heard that it harms the voice to train it at that age.”

“Oh no, not at all too young!” replied the count. “Why, our mothers used to be married at twelve or thirteen.”

“And she’s in love with BorÃs already. Just fancy!” said the countess with a gentle smile, looking at BorÃs and went on, evidently concerned with a thought that always occupied her: “Now you see if I were to be severe with her and to forbid it ... goodness knows what they might be up to on the sly” (she meant that they would be kissing), “but as it is, I know every word she utters. She will come running to me of her own accord in the evening and tell me everything. Perhaps I spoil her, but really that seems the best plan. With her elder sister I was stricter.”

“Yes, I was brought up quite differently,” remarked the handsome elder daughter, Countess Véra, with a smile.

But the smile did not enhance Véra’s beauty as smiles generally do; on the contrary it gave her an unnatural, and therefore unpleasant, expression. Véra was good-looking, not at all stupid, quick at learning, was well brought up, and had a pleasant voice; what she said was true and appropriate, yet, strange to say, everyone—the visitors and countess alike—turned to look at her as if wondering why she had said it, and they all felt awkward.

“People are always too clever with their eldest children and try to make something exceptional of them,” said the visitor.

“What’s the good of denying it, my dear? Our dear countess was too clever with Véra,” said the count. “Well, what of that? She’s turned out splendidly all the same,” he added, winking at Véra.

The guests got up and took their leave, promising to return to dinner.

 

[krayjee]

We would like to see some reviews on this forum,sometimes is looking confusing with all the arguments between you guys.I am trying to figure out why is the battle here,should be enough room for everyone in my opinion.There are so many hobbyist to give enough for each shop.

Here we go...

Review - 4 Hands Massage @ Ellagance - Ella and Sasa

Finally got to visit this place after a couple of failed opportunities due to scheduling, unable to see who I wanted based on the posted descriptions - I have a predilection for the pretty cute doll-faced ladies. In the neighbourhood with more than an hour to kill I decided to pay a visit and...

massageplanet.net

 

[krayjee]

Ellagance will have a very good team on duty today. They will have sweet and cute young girl Rose , slim and petite bubbly fun girl Kathy , sweet and shy chesty Cindy, the new beautiful girl Coco and petite and fun wild boss Ella on duty today.

Rose..she is in her mid to high 20s, with cute face and very sweet and very friendly GND type girl. She is barely 5' tall, around 105 lbs with nice curves and her best assets are her nice melons on her chest. She is well experienced, can provide a good strong massage and back walking. I was told she works at a few other popular spas in Richmond hills area and she is one of the most booked girl . On her first day at Ellagance, she came in with a base ball cap and a backpack on her back. I thought she was a young student nearby coming in to sell chocolate bars or looking for some info...lol

Kathy...She is a cute petite bubbly girl in her high 20s with great attitude, about 5' 1" tall, around 95-100 lbs. She is quite shapely, not much on the top but nice round ass at the bottom and nice to look at her when she walks away. She may looks small but her massage was quite strong and very sensual at the end. The best thing about her is she can communicate quite well in English and quite liberal within semi legit limits.

Cindy.... She is one of the cutest sweet girl, always wearing a shy smile on her face. I believe she is in her high 20s , about 5' 1", 110 lbs with nice curves in right places and a great set of huge headlights. She may looks shy but she opens up once she gets comfortable with you and she's so much fun if you click with her. She has quite a few regulars of her own following her to every spa she works.She is well known as Apple at Lavender spa and as Cindy at Wonder spa.

Coco... She is in her low to mid 30s is my guess but looks much younger. I have sen her at another spa last yr before she quits there but she looks very different now and looks much younger and prettier. She asked me not to mention about her previous spa so I will just leave it as that. All I will say is her massage and her sensual skills is one of the best I have ever had . Just come and find out who she is and I can guaranty you won't be disappointed.

Ella..she is a petite girl in her high 20s to low 30s, about 5' 2" tall, around 100 lbs with nice tight toned shapely body and curves. She may be small but she can provide a good strong massage as she was well trained at a massage school in China. The best thing about her was she has that fun personality and the skills to make you feel so comfortable in no time. No wonder she was very popular at J&L and Lavender spas and one of the most sought after girl wherever she works.

 

[Sonorous]

Ellagance will have 5 super stars young and beautiful Miko, tall and curvy Nancy with pretty baby face, , tall and slim fun girl Mimi, beautiful and elegant Yuki with hour glass body and petite and wild boss Ella on duty today.

Here is the brief info of all the girls on duty today.

Miko....she is a very pretty young girl in her high 20s with a medium frame, about 5' 3" tall, 110 lbs with a very pretty face. She is very friendly, super sweet with a good command of English. Her massage is very strong , knows what she is doing and very sensual when need be. She is one of the most popular girls at her two previous very well known spas in Richmond hills. She has lots of regulars of her own and some booked her way ahead in advance.

Nancy...She is in her high 20s to low 30s, medium frame with a sweet baby face, about 5' 5" , around 110-115 lbs. She used to work at Just Relax and E&M and well trained for strong and medium massage, very friendly, very easy going and very sensual as well.

Mimi ...She is a good looking young girl in her high 20s, quite tall and slim with long legs. She is very very friendly and wearing a shy seducing smile whenever she talks. She used to work at all of the May Blossom locations and XR Wellness so I don't need to say much about her massage skills. She came from a legit spa so I thought she might lack the skills in teasing and stick handling and I gave her the mesmerizing sensual HJ video. She said she knows everything and challenged me to try her ..lol. She is real fun to be with..

Yuki.....very good looking lady in her mid 30s, about 5' 4" tall, 110 lbs with very very nice very shapely hour glass body and pretty face. Her English is pretty good and very friendly as well. Her massage is very strong and has lots of regulars of her own from previous spas who follow her wherever she works. She has a body to die for and she was the one I told Ella she is a keeper as soon as she walked in for interview ..lol.

Ella..she is a petite girl in her high 20s to low 30s, about 5' 2" tall, around 100 lbs with nice tight toned shapely body and curves. She may be small but she can provide a good strong massage as she was well trained at a massage school in China. The best thing about her was she has that fun personality and the skills to make you feel so comfortable in no time. No wonder she was very popular and one of the most sought after girl wherever she works.

Advance booking is strongly suggested as some have already booked some girls 2 - 3 days in advance.

I have seen Miya at JR and I like her massage style but she very restrictive there. Is she more liberal here as Miko? Anyone seen her?

 

[krayjee]

I have seen Miya at JR and I like her massage style but she very restrictive there. Is she more liberal here as Miko? Anyone seen her?

One guy in red board posted she was very liberal but knowing her so well I doubted very much.

 

[stinkray88]

One guy in red board posted she was very liberal but knowing her so well I doubted very much.

So, if Ella's strict non-nudity rule has teeth, then Miko or Miya should be next to be fired. That's assuming your story checks out and isn't entirely fabricated. But knowing that Ella came from a fuckshop, your story isn't credible at all LOL

 

[krayjee]

So, if Ella's strict non-nudity rule has teeth, then Miko or Miya should be next to be fired. That's assuming your story checks out and isn't entirely fabricated. But knowing that Ella came from a fuckshop, your story isn't credible at all LOL

Stinky, you have never seen Ella and know nothing about her. The only place you know well is Yi Ren until they kicked you out. Gotta go, busy day again. Thanks for the bump anyways.

 

[stinkray88]

Stinky, you have never seen Ella and know nothing about her. The only place you know well is Yi Ren until they kicked you out. Gotta go, busy day again. Thanks for the bump anyways.

How do you know that I don't know her? I guarantee you that I am one of the many that have fucked her before. So, yes I know her intimately, very very well.
All you know about me is what I chose to let you read about me. Wake up old thai fart...LOL

 

[luvthe drake]

The only young people remaining in the drawing room, not counting the young lady visitor and the countess’ eldest daughter (who was four years older than her sister and behaved already like a grown-up person), were Nicholas and Sónya, the niece. Sónya was a slender little brunette with a tender look in her eyes which were veiled by long lashes, thick black plaits coiling twice round her head, and a tawny tint in her complexion and especially in the color of her slender but graceful and muscular arms and neck. By the grace of her movements, by the softness and flexibility of her small limbs, and by a certain coyness and reserve of manner, she reminded one of a pretty, half-grown kitten which promises to become a beautiful little cat. She evidently considered it proper to show an interest in the general conversation by smiling, but in spite of herself her eyes under their thick long lashes watched her cousin who was going to join the army, with such passionate girlish adoration that her smile could not for a single instant impose upon anyone, and it was clear that the kitten had settled down only to spring up with more energy and again play with her cousin as soon as they too could, like Natásha and BorÃs, escape from the drawing room.

“Ah yes, my dear,” said the count, addressing the visitor and pointing to Nicholas, “his friend BorÃs has become an officer, and so for friendship’s sake he is leaving the university and me, his old father, and entering the military service, my dear. And there was a place and everything waiting for him in the Archives Department! Isn’t that friendship?” remarked the count in an inquiring tone.

“But they say that war has been declared,” replied the visitor.

“They’ve been saying so a long while,” said the count, “and they’ll say so again and again, and that will be the end of it. My dear, there’s friendship for you,” he repeated. “He’s joining the hussars.”

The visitor, not knowing what to say, shook her head.

“It’s not at all from friendship,” declared Nicholas, flaring up and turning away as if from a shameful aspersion. “It is not from friendship at all; I simply feel that the army is my vocation.”

He glanced at his cousin and the young lady visitor; and they were both regarding him with a smile of approbation.

“Schubert, the colonel of the Pávlograd Hussars, is dining with us today. He has been here on leave and is taking Nicholas back with him. It can’t be helped!” said the count, shrugging his shoulders and speaking playfully of a matter that evidently distressed him.

“I have already told you, Papa,” said his son, “that if you don’t wish to let me go, I’ll stay. But I know I am no use anywhere except in the army; I am not a diplomat or a government clerk.—I don’t know how to hide what I feel.” As he spoke he kept glancing with the flirtatiousness of a handsome youth at Sónya and the young lady visitor.

The little kitten, feasting her eyes on him, seemed ready at any moment to start her gambols again and display her kittenish nature.

“All right, all right!” said the old count. “He always flares up! This Buonaparte has turned all their heads; they all think of how he rose from an ensign and became Emperor. Well, well, God grant it,” he added, not noticing his visitor’s sarcastic smile.

The elders began talking about Bonaparte. Julie Karágina turned to young Rostóv.

“What a pity you weren’t at the Arkhárovs’ on Thursday. It was so dull without you,” said she, giving him a tender smile.

The young man, flattered, sat down nearer to her with a coquettish smile, and engaged the smiling Julie in a confidential conversation without at all noticing that his involuntary smile had stabbed the heart of Sónya, who blushed and smiled unnaturally. In the midst of his talk he glanced round at her. She gave him a passionately angry glance, and hardly able to restrain her tears and maintain the artificial smile on her lips, she got up and left the room. All Nicholas’ animation vanished. He waited for the first pause in the conversation, and then with a distressed face left the room to find Sónya.

“How plainly all these young people wear their hearts on their sleeves!” said Anna Mikháylovna, pointing to Nicholas as he went out. “Cousinage—dangereux voisinage,” * she added.
* Cousinhood is a dangerous neighborhood.


“Yes,” said the countess when the brightness these young people had brought into the room had vanished; and as if answering a question no one had put but which was always in her mind, “and how much suffering, how much anxiety one has had to go through that we might rejoice in them now! And yet really the anxiety is greater now than the joy. One is always, always anxious! Especially just at this age, so dangerous both for girls and boys.”

“It all depends on the bringing up,” remarked the visitor.

“Yes, you’re quite right,” continued the countess. “Till now I have always, thank God, been my children’s friend and had their full confidence,” said she, repeating the mistake of so many parents who imagine that their children have no secrets from them. “I know I shall always be my daughters’ first confidante, and that if Nicholas, with his impulsive nature, does get into mischief (a boy can’t help it), he will all the same never be like those Petersburg young men.”

“Yes, they are splendid, splendid youngsters,” chimed in the count, who always solved questions that seemed to him perplexing by deciding that everything was splendid. “Just fancy: wants to be an hussar. What’s one to do, my dear?”

“What a charming creature your younger girl is,” said the visitor; “a little volcano!”

“Yes, a regular volcano,” said the count. “Takes after me! And what a voice she has; though she’s my daughter, I tell the truth when I say she’ll be a singer, a second Salomoni! We have engaged an Italian to give her lessons.”

“Isn’t she too young? I have heard that it harms the voice to train it at that age.”

“Oh no, not at all too young!” replied the count. “Why, our mothers used to be married at twelve or thirteen.”

“And she’s in love with BorÃs already. Just fancy!” said the countess with a gentle smile, looking at BorÃs and went on, evidently concerned with a thought that always occupied her: “Now you see if I were to be severe with her and to forbid it ... goodness knows what they might be up to on the sly” (she meant that they would be kissing), “but as it is, I know every word she utters. She will come running to me of her own accord in the evening and tell me everything. Perhaps I spoil her, but really that seems the best plan. With her elder sister I was stricter.”

“Yes, I was brought up quite differently,” remarked the handsome elder daughter, Countess Véra, with a smile.

But the smile did not enhance Véra’s beauty as smiles generally do; on the contrary it gave her an unnatural, and therefore unpleasant, expression. Véra was good-looking, not at all stupid, quick at learning, was well brought up, and had a pleasant voice; what she said was true and appropriate, yet, strange to say, everyone—the visitors and countess alike—turned to look at her as if wondering why she had said it, and they all felt awkward.

“People are always too clever with their eldest children and try to make something exceptional of them,” said the visitor.

“What’s the good of denying it, my dear? Our dear countess was too clever with Véra,” said the count. “Well, what of that? She’s turned out splendidly all the same,” he added, winking at Véra.

The guests got up and took their leave, promising to return to dinner.

 

[Sonorous]

Ellagance will have a very good team on duty today. They will have sweet and cute young girl Rose , slim and petite bubbly fun girl Kathy , sweet and shy chesty Cindy, the new beautiful girl Coco and petite and fun wild boss Ella on duty today.

Rose..she is in her mid to high 20s, with cute face and very sweet and very friendly GND type girl. She is barely 5' tall, around 105 lbs with nice curves and her best assets are her nice melons on her chest. She is well experienced, can provide a good strong massage and back walking. I was told she works at a few other popular spas in Richmond hills area and she is one of the most booked girl . On her first day at Ellagance, she came in with a base ball cap and a backpack on her back. I thought she was a young student nearby coming in to sell chocolate bars or looking for some info...lol

Kathy...She is a cute petite bubbly girl in her high 20s with great attitude, about 5' 1" tall, around 95-100 lbs. She is quite shapely, not much on the top but nice round ass at the bottom and nice to look at her when she walks away. She may looks small but her massage was quite strong and very sensual at the end. The best thing about her is she can communicate quite well in English and quite liberal within semi legit limits.

Cindy.... She is one of the cutest sweet girl, always wearing a shy smile on her face. I believe she is in her high 20s , about 5' 1", 110 lbs with nice curves in right places and a great set of huge headlights. She may looks shy but she opens up once she gets comfortable with you and she's so much fun if you click with her. She has quite a few regulars of her own following her to every spa she works.She is well known as Apple at Lavender spa and as Cindy at Wonder spa.

Coco... She is in her low to mid 30s is my guess but looks much younger. I have sen her at another spa last yr before she quits there but she looks very different now and looks much younger and prettier. She asked me not to mention about her previous spa so I will just leave it as that. All I will say is her massage and her sensual skills is one of the best I have ever had . Just come and find out who she is and I can guaranty you won't be disappointed.

Ella..she is a petite girl in her high 20s to low 30s, about 5' 2" tall, around 100 lbs with nice tight toned shapely body and curves. She may be small but she can provide a good strong massage as she was well trained at a massage school in China. The best thing about her was she has that fun personality and the skills to make you feel so comfortable in no time. No wonder she was very popular at J&L and Lavender spas and one of the most sought after girl wherever she works.

One guy in red board posted she was very liberal but knowing her so well I doubted very much.
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One guy in red board posted she was very liberal but knowing her so well I doubted very much.

ok thx ... I’ll try to visit her next Monday maybe have a 4 hands massage too

 

[luvthe drake]

The only young people remaining in the drawing room, not counting the young lady visitor and the countess’ eldest daughter (who was four years older than her sister and behaved already like a grown-up person), were Nicholas and Sónya, the niece. Sónya was a slender little brunette with a tender look in her eyes which were veiled by long lashes, thick black plaits coiling twice round her head, and a tawny tint in her complexion and especially in the color of her slender but graceful and muscular arms and neck. By the grace of her movements, by the softness and flexibility of her small limbs, and by a certain coyness and reserve of manner, she reminded one of a pretty, half-grown kitten which promises to become a beautiful little cat. She evidently considered it proper to show an interest in the general conversation by smiling, but in spite of herself her eyes under their thick long lashes watched her cousin who was going to join the army, with such passionate girlish adoration that her smile could not for a single instant impose upon anyone, and it was clear that the kitten had settled down only to spring up with more energy and again play with her cousin as soon as they too could, like Natásha and BorÃs, escape from the drawing room.

“Ah yes, my dear,” said the count, addressing the visitor and pointing to Nicholas, “his friend BorÃs has become an officer, and so for friendship’s sake he is leaving the university and me, his old father, and entering the military service, my dear. And there was a place and everything waiting for him in the Archives Department! Isn’t that friendship?” remarked the count in an inquiring tone.

“But they say that war has been declared,” replied the visitor.

“They’ve been saying so a long while,” said the count, “and they’ll say so again and again, and that will be the end of it. My dear, there’s friendship for you,” he repeated. “He’s joining the hussars.”

The visitor, not knowing what to say, shook her head.

“It’s not at all from friendship,” declared Nicholas, flaring up and turning away as if from a shameful aspersion. “It is not from friendship at all; I simply feel that the army is my vocation.”

He glanced at his cousin and the young lady visitor; and they were both regarding him with a smile of approbation.

“Schubert, the colonel of the Pávlograd Hussars, is dining with us today. He has been here on leave and is taking Nicholas back with him. It can’t be helped!” said the count, shrugging his shoulders and speaking playfully of a matter that evidently distressed him.

“I have already told you, Papa,” said his son, “that if you don’t wish to let me go, I’ll stay. But I know I am no use anywhere except in the army; I am not a diplomat or a government clerk.—I don’t know how to hide what I feel.” As he spoke he kept glancing with the flirtatiousness of a handsome youth at Sónya and the young lady visitor.

The little kitten, feasting her eyes on him, seemed ready at any moment to start her gambols again and display her kittenish nature.

“All right, all right!” said the old count. “He always flares up! This Buonaparte has turned all their heads; they all think of how he rose from an ensign and became Emperor. Well, well, God grant it,” he added, not noticing his visitor’s sarcastic smile.

The elders began talking about Bonaparte. Julie Karágina turned to young Rostóv.

“What a pity you weren’t at the Arkhárovs’ on Thursday. It was so dull without you,” said she, giving him a tender smile.

The young man, flattered, sat down nearer to her with a coquettish smile, and engaged the smiling Julie in a confidential conversation without at all noticing that his involuntary smile had stabbed the heart of Sónya, who blushed and smiled unnaturally. In the midst of his talk he glanced round at her. She gave him a passionately angry glance, and hardly able to restrain her tears and maintain the artificial smile on her lips, she got up and left the room. All Nicholas’ animation vanished. He waited for the first pause in the conversation, and then with a distressed face left the room to find Sónya.

“How plainly all these young people wear their hearts on their sleeves!” said Anna Mikháylovna, pointing to Nicholas as he went out. “Cousinage—dangereux voisinage,” * she added.
* Cousinhood is a dangerous neighborhood.


“Yes,” said the countess when the brightness these young people had brought into the room had vanished; and as if answering a question no one had put but which was always in her mind, “and how much suffering, how much anxiety one has had to go through that we might rejoice in them now! And yet really the anxiety is greater now than the joy. One is always, always anxious! Especially just at this age, so dangerous both for girls and boys.”

“It all depends on the bringing up,” remarked the visitor.

“Yes, you’re quite right,” continued the countess. “Till now I have always, thank God, been my children’s friend and had their full confidence,” said she, repeating the mistake of so many parents who imagine that their children have no secrets from them. “I know I shall always be my daughters’ first confidante, and that if Nicholas, with his impulsive nature, does get into mischief (a boy can’t help it), he will all the same never be like those Petersburg young men.”

“Yes, they are splendid, splendid youngsters,” chimed in the count, who always solved questions that seemed to him perplexing by deciding that everything was splendid. “Just fancy: wants to be an hussar. What’s one to do, my dear?”

“What a charming creature your younger girl is,” said the visitor; “a little volcano!”

“Yes, a regular volcano,” said the count. “Takes after me! And what a voice she has; though she’s my daughter, I tell the truth when I say she’ll be a singer, a second Salomoni! We have engaged an Italian to give her lessons.”

“Isn’t she too young? I have heard that it harms the voice to train it at that age.”

“Oh no, not at all too young!” replied the count. “Why, our mothers used to be married at twelve or thirteen.”

“And she’s in love with BorÃs already. Just fancy!” said the countess with a gentle smile, looking at BorÃs and went on, evidently concerned with a thought that always occupied her: “Now you see if I were to be severe with her and to forbid it ... goodness knows what they might be up to on the sly” (she meant that they would be kissing), “but as it is, I know every word she utters. She will come running to me of her own accord in the evening and tell me everything. Perhaps I spoil her, but really that seems the best plan. With her elder sister I was stricter.”

“Yes, I was brought up quite differently,” remarked the handsome elder daughter, Countess Véra, with a smile.

But the smile did not enhance Véra’s beauty as smiles generally do; on the contrary it gave her an unnatural, and therefore unpleasant, expression. Véra was good-looking, not at all stupid, quick at learning, was well brought up, and had a pleasant voice; what she said was true and appropriate, yet, strange to say, everyone—the visitors and countess alike—turned to look at her as if wondering why she had said it, and they all felt awkward.

“People are always too clever with their eldest children and try to make something exceptional of them,” said the visitor.

“What’s the good of denying it, my dear? Our dear countess was too clever with Véra,” said the count. “Well, what of that? She’s turned out splendidly all the same,” he added, winking at Véra.

The guests got up and took their leave, promising to return to dinner.

Finally..a post that gets to the point at hand ! ; thank you !

 

[Legolover1986]

Does suki from superior work at elegance? And if so, what does she go by at elegance

 

[krayjee]

Does suki from superior work at elegance? And if so, what does she go by at elegance

Same name Suki. She is here on Thursdays.
Jennifer also same name on Wednesdays.
Cindy is also here under the name Sasa.