53/116 You see, you're disturbing other people.... Ah, here's Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch; keep quiet, please." Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch was already in the room; he came in very quietly and stood still for an instant in the doorway, quietly scrutinising the company. I had not forgotten him in the least. But I think there are some countenances which always seem to exhibit something new which one has not noticed before, every time one meets them, though one may have seen them a hundred times already. He was as elegant, as dignified, he moved with the same air of consequence as before, indeed he looked almost as young. |