1 Pierre smiled, looking about him merrily.
2 It was about this choice that Prince Andrew was speaking.
3 But amid these cares her anxiety about Pierre was evident.
4 Very likely it would be splendid, but it will never come about.
5 Leading such a life I can't decide or think properly about anything.
6 Prince Andrew rose, shrugged his shoulders, and walked about the room.
7 The group about Mortemart immediately began discussing the murder of the Duc d'Enghien.
8 And Prince Hippolyte began to tell his story in such Russian as a Frenchman would speak after spending about a year in Russia.
9 Pierre looked over his spectacles with naive surprise, now at him and now at her, moved as if about to rise too, but changed his mind.
10 Anna Pavlovna's alarm was justified, for Pierre turned away from the aunt without waiting to hear her speech about Her Majesty's health.
11 Anna Pavlovna had already managed to speak to Lise about the match she contemplated between Anatole and the little princess' sister-in-law.
12 Everything about him, from his weary, bored expression to his quiet, measured step, offered a most striking contrast to his quiet, little wife.
13 After the anecdote the conversation broke up into insignificant small talk about the last and next balls, about theatricals, and who would meet whom, and when and where.
14 There was no one in the anteroom; empty bottles, cloaks, and overshoes were lying about; there was a smell of alcohol, and sounds of voices and shouting in the distance.
15 Pierre had managed to start a conversation with the abbe about the balance of power, and the latter, evidently interested by the young man's simple-minded eagerness, was explaining his pet theory.
16 Stout, about the average height, broad, with huge red hands; he did not know, as the saying is, how to enter a drawing room and still less how to leave one; that is, how to say something particularly agreeable before going away.
17 Each visitor performed the ceremony of greeting this old aunt whom not one of them knew, not one of them wanted to know, and not one of them cared about; Anna Pavlovna observed these greetings with mournful and solemn interest and silent approval.
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