And shadowy caverns.——
Her waving arms suggested wings.
Parfen Paramonitch ran up to Marioushka, took her by the hands and began to whirl her round and round, like a polar bear dancing with a snow fairy. Tichon would have never believed that this huge, portly body could dance with such ethereal lightness. Spinning round like a top he sang in his high-pitched voice:—
In the seventh heaven
Christ is spinning round.
Ah, friends! ah, friends!
Christ has shoes
Made of Saphia leather,
Stitched with finest stitches.
Other people rose and began to spin round.