1 "I knew you would be here," replied Pierre.
2 But Pierre now committed a reverse act of impoliteness.
3 Anna Pavlovna smiled and promised to take Pierre in hand.
4 But amid these cares her anxiety about Pierre was evident.
5 Pierre gazed at her with rapturous, almost frightened, eyes as she passed him.
6 "It is the Buonapartists who say that," replied the vicomte without looking at Pierre.
7 Pierre murmured something unintelligible, and continued to look round as if in search of something.
8 Pierre had been educated abroad, and this reception at Anna Pavlovna's was the first he had attended in Russia.
9 At that moment Anna Pavlovna came up and, looking severely at Pierre, asked the Italian how he stood Russian climate.
10 Pierre, who from the moment Prince Andrew entered the room had watched him with glad, affectionate eyes, now came up and took his arm.
11 Anna Pavlovna's alarm was justified, for Pierre turned away from the aunt without waiting to hear her speech about Her Majesty's health.
12 Not letting the abbe and Pierre escape, Anna Pavlovna, the more conveniently to keep them under observation, brought them into the larger circle.
13 "It is very good of you, Monsieur Pierre, to come and visit a poor invalid," said Anna Pavlovna, exchanging an alarmed glance with her aunt as she conducted him to her.
14 But in spite of this lowest-grade greeting, a look of anxiety and fear, as at the sight of something too large and unsuited to the place, came over her face when she saw Pierre enter.
15 Pierre had managed to start a conversation with the abbe about the balance of power, and the latter, evidently interested by the young man's simple-minded eagerness, was explaining his pet theory.
16 Before he looked round Prince Andrew frowned again, expressing his annoyance with whoever was touching his arm, but when he saw Pierre's beaming face he gave him an unexpectedly kind and pleasant smile.
17 Before Anna Pavlovna and the others had time to smile their appreciation of the vicomte's epigram, Pierre again broke into the conversation, and though Anna Pavlovna felt sure he would say something inappropriate, she was unable to stop him.
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