Anna Karenina - LimpidSoft

PART FOUR CHAPTER 9
Quite without attracting notice, without glancing at them, as though there were
no other places left, Stepan Arkadyevitch put Levin and Kitty side by side.
“Oh, you may as well sit there,” he said to Levin.
The dinner was as choice as the china, in which Stepan Arkadyevitch was a connoisseur.
The soupe Marie-Louise was a splendid success; the tiny pies eaten with
it melted in the mouth and were irreproachable. The two footmen and Matvey, in
white cravats, did their duty with the dishes and wines unobtrusively, quietly, and
swiftly. On the material side the dinner was a success; it was no less so on the immaterial.
The conversation, at times general and at times between individuals, never
paused, and towards the end the company was so lively that the men rose from the
table, without stopping speaking, and even Alexey Alexandrovitch thawed.
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