XXI + 

And numerous pages had preserved + 

The sharp incisions of his nail, + 

And these the attentive maid observed + 

With eye precise and without fail. + 

Tattiana saw with trepidation + 

By what idea or observation + 

Onegin was the most impressed, + 

In what he merely acquiesced. + 

Upon those margins she perceived + 

Onegin’s pencillings. His mind + 

Made revelations undesigned, + 

Of what he thought and what believed, + 

A dagger, asterisk, or note + 

Interrogation to denote. + 