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The children ran wild all over the house; the English governess

quarreled with the housekeeper, and wrote to a friend asking her

to look out for a new situation for her; the man-cook had walked

off the day before just at dinner time; the kitchen-maid, and the

coachman had given warning.

Three days after the quarrel, Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch

Oblonsky-Stiva, as he was called in the fashionable world-woke up

at his usual hour, that is, at eight o'clock in the morning, not

in his wife's bedroom, but on the leather-covered sofa in his

study. He turned over his stout, well-cared-for person on the

springy sofa, as though he would sink into a long sleep again; he

vigorously embraced the pillow on the other side and buried his

face in it; but all at once he jumped up, sat up on the sofa, and

opened his eyes.