Count Ilya Rostov smiled blandly and nodded approval.
He laughed blandly at her naive diplomacy but listened to what she had to say, and sometimes questioned her carefully about the Penza and Nizhegorod estates.
Having listened to her mother's objections, Helene smiled blandly and ironically.
But Kutuzov went on blandly smiling with the same expression, which seemed to say that he had a right to suppose so.
