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Their necks were thrust forward and with soft movements

continually wavered to and fro like water lilies; a thousand eyes

like stars glittered upon Zosia.

In the centre, raised high above the birds, white herself, and

dressed in a long white gown, she turned about like a fountain

playing amid flowers. She took from the sieve and scattered over

the wings and heads, with a hand white as pearls, a dense pearly

hail of barley grains: it was grain worthy of a lord's table, and

was made for thickening the Lithuanian broths; by stealing it

from the pantry cupboard for her poultry Zosia did damage to the

housekeeping.