Chapter 3

           

           OnthatthirdofMarch,alltheroomsintheEnglishClubwerefilledwithahumofconversation,likethehumofbeesswarminginspringtime.Themembersandguestsoftheclubwanderedhitherandthither,sat,stood,met,andseparated,someinuniformandsomeineveningdress,andafewhereandtherewithpowderedhairandinRussiankaftáns.Powderedfootmen,inliverywithbuckledshoesandsmartstockings,stoodateverydooranxiouslynotingvisitors’everymovementinordertooffertheirservices.Mostofthosepresentwereelderly,respectedmenwithbroad,self-confidentfaces,fatfingers,andresolutegesturesandvoices.Thisclassofguestsandmemberssatincertainhabitualplacesandmetincertainhabitualgroups.Aminorityofthosepresentwerecasualguests—chieflyyoungmen,amongwhomwereDenísov,Rostóv,andDólokhov—whowasnowagainanofficerintheSemënovregiment.Thefacesoftheseyoungpeople,especiallythosewhoweremilitarymen,borethatexpressionofcondescendingrespectfortheirelderswhichseemstosaytotheoldergeneration,“Wearepreparedtorespectandhonoryou,butallthesamerememberthatthefuturebelongstous.”

           Nesvítskiwasthereasanoldmemberoftheclub.Pierre,whoathiswife’scommandhadlethishairgrowandabandonedhisspectacles,wentabouttheroomsfashionablydressedbutlookingsadanddull.Here,aselsewhere,hewassurroundedbyanatmosphereofsubserviencetohiswealth,andbeinginthehabitoflordingitoverthesepeople,hetreatedthemwithabsent-mindedcontempt.

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