![]() ![]() To each new arrival Anna Pdvlovna safcl, “You have not yet seen my aunt,” or “You do not know my aunt?” and very gravely conducted him or her to a little old lady, The Abb6 Morio and many others had also come. Prince Vasfli’s son, Hippolyte, had come with Mortemart, whom he introduced. She had been married during the previous winter, and being pregnant did not go to any large gatherings, but only to small receptions. The youthful little Princess Bolkonskaya, known as la femme la plus sSduisante de Pfaersbourg? was also there. Prince Vasili’s daughter, the beautiful H£l£ne, came to take her father to the ambassador’s entertainment she wore a ball dress and her badge as maid of honor. The highest Petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age and character but alike in the social circle to which they belonged. He went up to Anna Pávlovna, kissed her hand, presenting to her his bald, scented, and shining head, and complacently seated himself on the sofa.ĪNNA PAVLOVNA’S drawing room was gradually filling. He spoke in that refined French in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and with the gentle, patronizing intonation natural to a man of importance who had grown old in society and at court. He had just entered, wearing an em broidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on his breast and a serene expression on his flat face. ![]() ![]() “Heavens! what a virulent attack!” replied the prince, not in the least disconcerted by this reception. “If you have nothing better to do, Count, and if the prospect of spending an evening with a poor invalid is not too terrible, I shall be very charmed to see you tonight be tween 7 and 10-Annette Schérer.” All her invitations without exception, writ ten in French, and delivered by a scarlet-liver ied footman that morning, ran as follows: ![]()
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