Part Four: Chapter III
On the 3rd of March all the rooms of the English Club were full of the hum of voices, and the members and guests of the club, in uniforms and frock-coats, some even in powder and Russian kaftans, were standing meeting, parting, and running to and fro like bees swarming in spring. Powdered footmen in livery, wearing slippers and stockings, stood at every door, anxiously trying to follow every movement of the guests and club members, so as to proffer their services. The majority of those present were elderly and respected persons, with broad, self-confident faces, fat fingers, and resolute gestures and voices. Guests and members of this class sat in certain habitual places, and met together in certain habitual circles. A small proportion of those present were casual guests – chiefly young men, among them Denisov, Rostov, and Dolohov, who was now an officer in the Semyonovsky regiment again. The faces of the younger men, especially the officers, wore that expression of condescending deference to their elders which seems to say to the older generation, “Respect and deference we are prepared to give you, but remember all the same the future is for us.” Nevitsky, an old member of the club, was there too. Pierre, who at his wife’s command had let his hair grow and left off spectacles, was walking about the rooms dressed in the height of the fashion, but looking melancholy and depressed. Here, as everywhere, he was surrounded by the atmosphere of people paying homage to his wealth, and he behaved to them with the careless, contemptuous air of sovereignty that had become habitual with him.
From War and Peace
Slightly off topic, but I had a question about these Amazon links. If I click on the one above and navigate away from the particular page you’ve linked and buy something else, do you still get credited for directing me to Amazon or what not? Because if that’s the case, when I order something from them, I want to start going through links on my friends’ pages so they can make a little dough.
Emily – yes! I get credit for whatever you buy if you click on that link, even if it’s surfing around Amazon after you get there. It’s great!
(Sadly, though, it also means that I got money for some person’s purchase of Girls Gone Wild – from my link to, whatever, Pride and Prejudice … which is so ironic and hysterical. And also rather awful. But still funny.)
Okey dokes. I’ll do that from now on whenever I buy from Amazon. It probably won’t amount to much, but every little bit and all that.
Think of the “Girls Gone Wild” thing as taking money away from Joe Francis and that will make you feel better. That guy is a greaseball. But that is funny. Maybe it was bought by some guy expecting to find something very different when clicking on “Moby Dick.”