Endowing us from out her store
With affectation,—nothing more.
[Note 26: The Russian annotator remarks: "The most euphonious Greek names, e.g. Agathon, Philotas,Theodora, Thekla, etc., are used amongst us by the lower classes only."]
XXV
And so Tattiana was her name,
Nor by her sister's brilliancy
Nor by her beauty she became
The cynosure of every eye.
Shy, silent did the maid appear
As in the timid forest deer,
Even beneath her parents' roof
Stood as estranged from all aloof,
Nearest and dearest knew not how