acostumbrara a ella.
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Borís no había tenido éxito en conseguir un buen partido en Petersburgo, así que con el mismo propósito se vino a Moscú. Allí dudaba entre las dos herederas más ricas: Julie y la princesa Márya.
Aunque la princesa Márya, a pesar de su fealdad, le parecía más atractiva que Julie, él, sin saber por qué, se sentía incómodo cortejándola. La última vez que se habían visto, en el día del santo del viejo príncipe, ella había respondido al azar a todos sus intentos de hablar de forma sentimental, demostrando claramente que no estaba escuchando lo que él decía.
Julie, por el contrario, aceptaba sus atenciones de buen grado, aunque de un modo peculiarmente suyo.
She was twenty-seven. After the death of her brothers she had become very wealthy. She was by now decidedly plain, but thought herself not merely as good-looking as before but even far more attractive. She was confirmed in this delusion by the fact that she had become a very wealthy heiress and also by the fact that the older she grew the less dangerous she became to men, and the more freely they could associate with her and avail themselves of her suppers, soirees, and the animated company that assembled at her house, without incurring any obligation. A man who would have been afraid ten years before of going every day to the house when there was a girl of seventeen there, for fear of compromising her and committing himself, would now go boldly every day and treat her not as a marriageable girl but as a sexless acquaintance.
Aquel invierno la casa de los Karágin fue la