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There is an anteroom adjoining the library.

his hands on his knees with the air of a man who enjoys life and knows how to live, he swayed to and fro with dignity, offered surmises about the weather, or touched on questions of health, sometimes in Russian and sometimes in very bad but self-confident French; then again, like a man weary but unflinching in the fulfillment of duty, he rose to see some visitors off and, stroking his scanty gray hairs over his bald patch, also asked them to dinner.


Sometimes on his way back from the anteroom he would pass through the conservatory and pantry into the large marble dining hall, where tables were being set out for eighty people; and looking at the footmen, who were bringing in silver and china, moving tables, and unfolding damask table linen, he would call Dmitri Vasilevich, a man of good family and the manager of all his affairs, and while looking with pleasure at the enormous table would say: "Well, Dmitri, you'll see that things are all as they should be? That's right! The great thin And like a practical Petersburg lady who knows how to make the most of time, Anna Mikhaylovna sent someone to call her son, and went into the anteroom with him.


Bagration appeared in the doorway of the anteroom without hat or sword, which, in accord with the club custom, he had given up to the hall porter.


He had no lambskin cap on his head, nor had he a loaded whip over his shoulder, as when Rostov had seen him on the eve of the battle of Austerlitz, but wore a tight new uniform with Russian and foreign Orders, and the Star of St.


George on his left breast.


Evidently just before coming to the dinner he had had his hair and whiskers trimmed, which changed his appeara Princess Mary threw a shawl over her head and ran to meet the newcomer.


As she was crossing the anteroom she saw through the window a carriage with lanterns, standing at the entrance.


She went out on the stairs.


On a banister post stood a tallow candle which guttered in the draft.


On the landing below, Philip, the footman, stood looking scared and holding another candle.


Still lower, beyond the turn of the staircase, one could hear the footstep of someone in thick felt boots, and a voice that seemed familiar to Princess Mary was saying something.
< Having entered the courtyard of a large house where the Lodge had its headquarters, and having ascended a dark staircase, they entered a small well-lit anteroom where they took off their cloaks without the aid of a servant.


From there they passed into another room.


A man in strange attire appeared at the door.


Willarski, stepping toward him, said something to him in French in an undertone and then went up to a small wardrobe in which Pierre noticed garments such as he had never seen before.


Having taken a kerchief from the cupboard, Willarski bound Pierre's eyes with it and tied it in a knot behind, catchi During his service, chiefly as an adjutant, Prince Andrew had seen the anterooms of many important men, and the different types of such rooms were well known to him.


Count Arakcheev's anteroom had quite a special character.


The faces of the unimportant people awaiting their turn for an audience showed embarrassment and servility; the faces of those of higher rank expressed a common feeling of awkwardness, covered by a mask of unconcern and ridicule of themselves, their situation, and the person for whom they were waiting.


Some walked thoughtfully up and down, others whispered and laughed.


Prince Andrew heard the nickname "Sila Andreevich" and the wo ardens.


In the parqueted dining room this small house, remarkable for its extreme cleanliness (suggesting that of a monastery), Prince Andrew, who was rather late, found the friendly gathering of Speranski's intimate acquaintances already assembled at five o'clock.


There were no ladies present except Speranski's little daughter (long-faced like her father) and her governess.


The other guests were Gervais, Magnitski, and Stolypin.


While still in the anteroom Prince Andrew heard loud voices and a ringing staccato laugh-a laugh such as one hears on the stage.


Someone-it sounded like Speranski-was distinctly ejaculating ha-ha-ha.


Prince Andrew had never before heard Speranski's famous laugh, and this ringing, high-pitched laughter from a statesman made a strange impression on him.


"Uncle" led the visitors through the anteroom into a small hall with a folding table and red chairs, then into the drawing room with a round birchwood table and a sofa, and finally into his private room where there was a tattered sofa, a worn carpet, and portraits of Suvorov, of the host's father and mother, and of himself in military uniform.


The study smelt strongly of tobacco and dogs.


"Uncle" asked his visitors to sit down and make themselves at home, and then went out of the room.


Rugay, his back sti "Well, the Lord have mercy on us!" said the count, half in jest, half in earnest; but Natasha noticed that her father was flurried on entering the anteroom and inquired timidly and softly whether the prince and princess were at home.


In Marya Dmitrievna's anteroom the footman who helped him off with his fur coat said that the mistress asked him to come to her bedroom.


Count Rostopchin had only that morning returned to town from his summer villa at Sokolniki.


The anteroom and reception room of his house were full of officials who had been summoned or had come for orders.


Vasilchikov and Platov had already seen the count and explained to him that it was impossible to defend Moscow and that it would have to be surrendered.


Though this news was being concealed from the inhabitants, the officials-the heads of the various government departments-knew that Moscow would soon be in the enemy's hands, just as Count Rostopchin himself knew it, and to From the anteroom Berg ran with smooth though impatient steps into the drawing room, where he embraced the count, kissed the hands of Natasha and Sonya, and hastened to inquire after "Mamma's" health.


The count nodded affirmatively, and Natasha, at the rapid pace at which she used to run when playing at tag, ran through the ballroom to the anteroom and downstairs into the yard.


"Oh, I'll go and see," said Pierre, jumping up.


"You know," he added, stopping at the door, "why I'm especially fond of that music? It is always the first thing that tells me all is well.


When I was driving here today, the nearer I got to the house the more anxious I grew.


As I entered the anteroom I heard Andrusha's peals of laughter and that meant that all was well.


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