Repressing a smile of pleasure, he shrugged his shoulders and closed his eyes, as if to say that it could not give him pleasure. The Countess Lydia Ivanovna knew very well that it was one of his greatest pleasures, though he would never confess it.
A megelégedés mosolyát magába fojtván, Alexandrovics Alexej vállat vont s behúnyta a szemeit, mintha csak azt akarta volna mondani, hogy ez vajmi kevés örömet okoz neki, Ivanovna Lidia pedig jól tudta, hogy ez egyik legnagyobb öröme, bárha soha sem fogja is bevallani.