They are voting on the legal point.

" Levin walked into the room, received a white ball, and followed his brother, Sergey Ivanovitch, to the table where Sviazhsky was standing with a significant and ironical face, holding his beard in his fist and sniffing at it.

Sergey Ivanovitch put his hand into the box, put the ball somewhere, and making room for Levin, stopped.