War And Peace: Book 2 - CHAPTER XI

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NEXT DAY he waked up late. Going over the impressions of the past, what he

recalled most vividly was that he was to be presented to the Emperor Francis; he

remembered the minister of war, the ceremonious adjutant, Bilibin, and the

conversation of the previous evening. He dressed for his attendance at court in

full court-dress, which he had not worn for a long time, and fresh, eager, and

handsome, he walked into Bilibin's room with his arm in a sling. Four gentlemen

of the diplomatic corps were already there. With Prince Ippolit Kuragin, who was

a secretary to the embassy, Bolkonsky was already acquainted; Bilibin introduced

him to the others.

The gentlemen calling on Bilibin were a set of fashionable, wealthy, and

lively young men, who here, as at Vienna, made up a circle apart, a circle which

Bilibin, its leader, spoke of as les n

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