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Bagration appeared in the doorway of the anteroom without hat or

sword, which, in accord with the club custom, he had given up to

the hall porter. He had no lambskin cap on his head, nor had he a

loaded whip over his shoulder, as when Rostov had seen him on the

eve of the battle of Austerlitz, but wore a tight new uniform

with Russian and foreign Orders, and the Star of St. George on

his left breast. Evidently just before coming to the dinner he

had had his hair and whiskers trimmed, which changed his

appearance for the worse. There was something naively festive in

his air, which, in conjunction with his firm and virile features,

gave him a rather comical expression. Bekleshev and Theodore

Uvarov, who had arrived with him, paused at the doorway to allow

him, as the guest of honor, to enter first. Bagration was

embarrassed, not wishing to avail himself of their courtesy, and

this caused some delay at the doors, but after all he did at last

enter first.