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The faces of these young people, especially those who were

military men, bore that expression of condescending respect for

their elders which seems to say to the older generation, "We are

prepared to respect and honor you, but all the same remember that

the future belongs to us."

Nesvitski was there as an old member of the club. Pierre, who at

his wife's command had let his hair grow and abandoned his

spectacles, went about the rooms fashionably dressed but looking

sad and dull. Here, as elsewhere, he was surrounded by an

atmosphere of subservience to his wealth, and being in the habit

of lording it over these people, he treated them with

absent-minded contempt.