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carriage her husband was adjusting his saber Prince Ippolit under the pretext of serving interfered with everyoneExcuse me sir Prince Andrei turned dryly and unpleasantly in Russian to Prince Ippolit who was preventing him from passingIm waiting for you Pierre said the same voice of Prince Andrei affectionately and tenderlyThe postilion moved off and the carriage rattled its whee

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leepy You are ready he asked his wife looking around herPrince Hippolyte hurriedly put on his coat which in a new way was longer than his heels and tangled in it ran to the porch after the princess whom the footman was putting into the carriagePrincess au revoir he shouted tangling his tongue as well as his feetThe princess picking up her dress sat down in the darkness of the

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the shawl from the footman even pushed him and began to put it on the princess From embarrassment or deliberately no one could make it out he did not lower his arms for a long time when the shawl was already put on and seemed to be hugging a young womanShe gracefully but still smiling pulled away turned and looked at her husband Prince Andreis eyes were closed he seemed so tired and s

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h a laughI am very glad that I didnt go to the envoy Prince Hippolyte said boredom  Its a wonderful evening isnt it wonderfulThey say that the ball will be very good answered the princess twitching her sponge with her mustache All the beautiful women of society will be thereNot all because you wont be there not all said Prince Hippolyte laughing joyfully and seizing

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bending his face close to her began to say something to her in a whisperTwo lackeys one the princess the other waiting for them to finish talking stood with a shawl and a redingote and listened to them incomprehensible to them French dialect with such faces as if they understood what was being said but did not want to show it The princess as always spoke with a smile and listened wit

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êté she added softlyAnna Pavlovna had already managed to talk to Lisa about the matchmaking she was planning between Anatole and the sisterinlaw of the little princessI hope for you dear friend Anna Pavlovna said also quietly you will write to her and tell me comment le père envisagera la chose Au revoir 97  and she left the frontPrince Ippolit went up to the little princess and

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ning his shoulders on the footman who was putting on his cloak listened indifferently to the chatter of his wife with Prince Hippolyte who also went out into the anteroom Prince Hippolyte stood beside the pretty pregnant princess and stubbornly looked straight at her through his lorgnetteGo Annette you will catch cold said the little princess saying goodbye to Anna Pavlovna Cest arr

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hat with a generals plume and held it pulling the sultan until the general asked to return it But all his absentmindedness and inability to enter the salon and speak in it were redeemed by an expression of good nature simplicity and modesty Anna Pavlovna turned to him and with Christian meekness expressing forgiveness for his outburst nodded to him and saidI hope to see you again but

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each othervAfter thanking Anna Pavlovna for her charmante soiree95 the guests began to dispersePierre was clumsy Fat taller than usual broad with huge red hands he as they say did not know how to enter the salon and even less how to get out of it that is before leaving to say something especially pleasant Besides he was scattered Rising instead of his hat he grabbed a triangular

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clear why he was telling it and why it had to be told without fail in Russian Anna Pavlovna and others appreciated the secular courtesy of Prince Hippolyte who so pleasantly ended Monsieur Pierres unpleasant and ungracious trick The conversation after the anecdote crumbled into small insignificant talk about the future and the past ball the performance about when and where someone will see

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ners which made an unfavorable impression for the narrator However many including the elderly lady and Anna Pavlovna smiled She went Suddenly there was a strong wind The girl lost her hat and her long hair was combed Here he could no longer hold on and began to laugh abruptly and through this laughter he saidAnd the whole world knewThats where the joke ends Although it was not

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de pied91 per carriage And very large It was her taste And she was une femme de chambre92 even taller She saidHere Prince Hippolyte fell into thought apparently having difficulty thinking She said yes she said girl à la femme de chambre put on your livrée93 and come with me behind the carriage faire des visites94Here Prince Ippolit snorted and laughed much before his liste

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icomte il faut que je raconte en russe Autrement on ne sentira pas le sel de lhistoire90And Prince Hippolyte began to speak Russian with such a pronunciation as the French speak having spent a year in Russia Everyone paused so animatedly Prince Hippolyte urgently demanded attention to his history There is one lady in Moscou une dame And she is very stingy She needed to have two valets

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that are difficult to justifyPrince Andrei apparently wanting to soften the awkwardness of Pierres speech got up getting ready to go and giving a sign to his wifeSuddenly Prince Hippolyte got up and stopping everyone with signs of his hands and asking them to sit down spoke Ah aujourdhui on ma raconté une anecdote moscovite charmante il faut que je vous en régale Vous mexcusez v

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n the actions of a private person a commander or an emperor in the actions of a statesman It seems to meYes yes of course Pierre picked up delighted at the help that was coming to himIts impossible not to confess continued Prince Andrei Napoleon as a man is great on the Arkol bridge in the hospital in Jaffa where he gives a hand to the plague but  but there are other actions

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and even somewhat gloomy face suddenly disappeared and another appeared  childish kind even stupid and as if asking for forgivenessIt became clear to the viscount who saw him for the first time that this Jacobin was not at all as terrible as his words Everyone fell silent How do you want him to answer all of a sudden  said Prince Andrew Besides it is necessary to distinguish betwee

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grand homme88And the prisoners in Africa that he killed  said the little princess  this is terrible And she shrugged Cest un roturier vous aurez beau dire89  said prince Hippolyte Monsieur Pierre did not know to whom to answer looked around at everyone and smiled His smile was not the same as other peoples merging with an unsmile On the contrary when a smile came his serious