With head bent and legs planted wide apart, he began explaining to
Anna Pavlovna why he considered the abbé's scheme chimerical.“We will
talk of it later,” said Anna Pavlovna, smiling.And getting rid of this
unmannerly young man she returned to her duties, keeping her eyes and
ears open, ready to fly to the assistance at any point where the
conversation was flagging. Just as the foreman of a spinning-mill
settles the work-people in their places, walks up and down the works,
and noting any stoppage or unusual creaking or too loud a whir in the
spindles, goes up hurriedly, slackens the machinery and sets it going
properly, so Anna Pavlovna, walking about her drawing-room, went up to
any circle that was pausing or too loud in conversation and by a single
word or change of position set the conversational machine going again in
its regular, decorous way. But in the midst of these cares a special
anxiety on Pierre's account could still be discerned in her. She kept an
anxious watch on him as he went up to listen to what was being said
near Mortemart, and walked away to another group where the abbé was
talking. Pierre had been educated abroad, and this party at Anna
Pavlovna's was the first at which he had been present in Russia. cheap North Face Denali Jacket
He knew all the intellectual lights of Petersburg gathered together
here, and his eyes strayed about like a child's in a toy-shop. He was
afraid at every moment of missing some intellectual conversation which
he might have heard. Gazing at the self-confident and refined
expressions of the personages assembled here, he was continually
expecting something exceptionally clever. At last he moved up to Abbé
Morio. The conversation seemed interesting, and he stood still waiting
for an opportunity of expressing his own ideas, as young people are fond
of doing.CHAPTER IIIANNA PAVLOVNA'S soirée was in full swing. The
spindles kept up their regular hum on all sides without pause. North Face Hyvent Jacket
Except the aunt, beside whom was sitting no one but an elderly lady
with a thin, careworn face, who seemed rather out of her element in this
brilliant society, the company was broken up into three groups. In one
of these, the more masculine, the centre was the abbé; in the other, the
group of young people, the chief attractions were the beautiful
Princess Ellen, Prince Vassily's daughter, and the little Princess
Bolkonsky, with her rosy prettiness, too plump for her years. In the
third group were Mortemart and Anna Pavlovna.The vicomte was a pretty
young gentleman with soft features and manners, who obviously regarded
himself as a celebrity, but with good breeding modestly allowed the
company the benefit of his society. Anna Pavlovna unmistakably regarded
him as the chief entertainment she was giving her guests. As a clever
maître d'hôtel serves as something superlatively good the piece of beef
which no one would have cared to eat seeing it in the dirty kitchen,
Anna Pavlovna that evening served up to her guests — first, the vicomte
and then the abbé, as something superlatively subtle. In Mortemart's
group the talk turned at once on the execution of the duc d'Enghien. cheap North Face Hyvent Jacket
The vicomte said that the duc d'Enghien had been lost by his own
magnanimity and that there were special reasons for Bonaparte's
bitterness against him.“Ah, come! Tell us about that, vicomte,” said
Anna Pavlovna gleefully, feeling that the phrase had a peculiarly Louis
Quinze note about it: “Contez-nous cela, vicomte.”The vicomte bowed and
smiled courteously in token of his readiness to obey. Anna Pavlovna made
a circle round the vicomte and invited every one to hear his story.“The
vicomte was personally acquainted with his highness,” Anna Pavlovna
whispered to one. “The vicomte tells a story perfectly,” she said to
another. “How one sees the man of quality,” she said to a third, and the
vicomte was presented to the company in the most elegant and
advantageous light, like the roast-beef on the hot dish garnished with
green parsley.
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