Ilinka

I put him under my left arm and gathered Ilinka up in my right arm.

Dreamstates baggyk 2004

“Ilinka is a poor whining sort of a chap, while Seriosha is a boy — a REAL boy.”

Childhood 2003

Ilinka to take refuge from the missile; he merely guarded his head with his hands.

Childhood 2003

It never occurred to my mind that possibly poor Ilinka was suffering far less from bodily pain than from the thought that five companions for whom he may have felt a genuine liking had, for no reason at all, combined to hurt and humiliate him.

Childhood 2003

Suddenly a moment of silence occurred amid our boisterous laughter — a moment during which nothing was to be heard in the room but the panting of the miserable Ilinka.

Childhood 2003

Ilinka, observing that the general attention was fixed upon him, blushed, and said in an almost inaudible voice that he could not do the feat.

Childhood 2003

The youngest princess always chose the younger Iwin, Katenka either Woloda or Ilinka, and

Boyhood 2003

Yet if he thought that the acquaintance would procure his son any advancement or pleasure, he was entirely mistaken, for not only were we anything but friendly to Ilinka, but it was seldom that we noticed him at all except to laugh at him.

Childhood 2003

Ilinka was the son of a poor foreigner who had been under certain obligations to my Grandpapa, and now thought it incumbent upon him to send his son to us as frequently as possible.

Childhood 2003

After this last trick he pondered for a moment (blinking his eyes as usual), and then went up to Ilinka with a very serious face.

Childhood 2003