His experience in Petersburg was exactly what had been described to him on the previous day by Prince Pyotr Oblonsky, a man of sixty, who had just come back from abroad: "We don't know the way to live here," said Pyotr Oblonsky.
" I spent the summer in Baden, and you wouldn't believe it, I felt quite a young man.
At a glimpse of a pretty woman, my thoughts....
One dines and drinks a glass of wine, and feels strong and ready for anything.