Collage 327

Hussars, ladies, witches, clowns, bears, clearing their throats and wiping their frost-covered faces in the front hall, came into the reception room, where candles were hastily lighted. The clown Dimmler and the lady Nikolai opened the dance. Surrounded by shouting children, the mummers, covering their faces and altering their voices, bowed before the hostess and took their places in the room.

--p. 526 in P/V

Lynn Waskelis
from page 661-662 of original text
collage, candle wax, ink
made 1/7/11
page 526-527 Pevear/Volokhonsky translation