"1" . _:vb6810280 "The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them."@en . _:vb6810277 "I asked Mary, but she said that she didn't know."@en . _:vb6810279 "1590, Edmund Spenser, \u201CBook II, Canto IX\u201D, in The Faerie Queene.\u00A0[\u2026], London: [\u2026] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, \u2192OCLC:"@en . _:vb6810278 "After the cat killed a mouse, she left it on our doorstep."@en . _:vb6810279 "Goodly she entertaind those noble knights, / And brought them vp into her castle hall [\u2026]"@en . _:vb6810277 . _:vb6810278 . _:vb6810279 . _:vb6810276 "(personal) The female (typically) person or animal previously mentioned or implied."@en . . _:vb6810280 . _:vb6810280 "1917, Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, The Darling and Other Stories\u200E[1], Project Gutenberg, published 9 September 2004, \u2192ISBN, page 71:"@en . _:vb6810276 .