Anna Karenina  Leo Tolstoy  Chapter 35  The prince communicated
his good-humor to his own family and his friends, and even to
the German landlord in whose rooms the Shtcherbatskys were
staying.  On coming back with Kitty from the springs, the
prince, who had asked the colonel, and Marya Yevgenyevna, and
Varenka all to come and have coffee with them, gave orders for a
table and chairs to be taken into the garden under the chestnut-
tree, and lunch to be laid there. The landlord and the servants,
too, grew brisker under the influence of his good spirits. They
knew his open-handedness; and half an hour later the invalid
doctor from Hamburg, who lived on the top floor, looked
enviously out of the window at the merry party of healthy
Russians assembled under the chestnut-tree. In the trembling
circles of shadow cast by the leaves, at a table, covered with a
white cloth, and set with coffeepot, bread-and-butter, cheese,
and cold game, sat the princess in a high cap with lilac
ribbons, distributing cups and bread-and