1 "Do call him, Alexey," said the old countess.
2 Smiling and showing her false teeth, she greeted him as an old friend.
3 Anna was not like a fashionable lady, nor the mother of a boy of eight years old.
4 After talking a little of her old governess and her peculiarities, she questioned him about his life.
5 But apparently she did not care to pursue the conversation in that strain, and she turned to the old countess.
6 The old curly birches of the gardens, all their twigs laden with snow, looked as though freshly decked in sacred vestments.
7 Two of the members of the board, the old veteran in the service, Nikitin, and the Kammerjunker Grinevitch, went in with him.
8 It was at once answered by the appearance of an old friend, his valet, Matvey, carrying his clothes, his boots, and a telegram.
9 The old prince, like all fathers indeed, was exceedingly punctilious on the score of the honor and reputation of his daughters.
10 The families of the Levins and the Shtcherbatskys were old, noble Moscow families, and had always been on intimate and friendly terms.
11 His mother, a dried-up old lady with black eyes and ringlets, screwed up her eyes, scanning her son, and smiled slightly with her thin lips.
12 The old butler who had traveled with the countess, came to the carriage to announce that everything was ready, and the countess got up to go.
13 The old prince embraced Levin, and talking to him did not observe Vronsky, who had risen, and was serenely waiting till the prince should turn to him.
14 Just as they were arranging themselves round the table, and Levin was on the point of retiring, the old prince came in, and after greeting the ladies, addressed Levin.
15 A little old man in civilian dress, arranging his gray curls before another mirror, and diffusing an odor of scent, stumbled against them on the stairs, and stood aside, evidently admiring Kitty, whom he did not know.
16 One would have thought that nothing could be simpler than for him, a man of good family, rather rich than poor, and thirty-two years old, to make the young Princess Shtcherbatskaya an offer of marriage; in all likelihood he would at once have been looked upon as a good match.
17 And, however much it was instilled into the princess that in our times young people ought to arrange their lives for themselves, she was unable to believe it, just as she would have been unable to believe that, at any time whatever, the most suitable playthings for children five years old ought to be loaded pistols.
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