| 1 | Sometimes he's very sad. | |
| 2 | Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. | |
| 3 | He took the despatch, which was addressed to him, and began to read it with a mournful expression. | |
| 4 | Princess Marya went back to her own room with that dejected, scared expression that rarely left her, and made her plain, sickly face even plainer . | |
| 5 | "There is something so ravishing in the smile of melancholy, " she said to Boris, repeating word for word a passage copied from a book. |